determine grain capacity of water softener?
My water softener is 10 by 36 tall. I used a calculator online to determine that it needs about 1 cubic foot of resin. How do I know how many kilograins the capacity of my water softener is? It is not labeled anywhere on the softener and I need this number to properly setup the timer. The maximum possible capacity is determined by the volume of resin in the softener. A 1 cubic foot softener that is regenerated with a maximum salt dose of 15 lbs per cubic foot of resin will have a capacity of approximately 30,000 grains. However using maximum salt dose is relatively salt inefficient--it yields about 2,000 grains of capacity per lb of salt. The same cubic foot of resin that is regenerated with 6 lbs of salt will have a capacity of about 19,000 grains. Here is a link that contains a table that shows the relationship between salt dose a capacity. (Use the table on page 4 for c100 resin)http://www.caitechnologies.com/image...pecs/SST60.pdf What valve do you have? To set it up, you need to know the hardness of the water and the iron (if any). Originally Posted by biermech What valve do you have? To set it up, you need to know the hardness of the water and the iron (if any). The valve is a Autotrol 155. The hardness is 21 grains per gallon. When I did a test, I don't recall their being any iron.
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