User manual KENMORE 625.348670

[. . . ] 625. 348670 Caution: Read and Follow All Safety Rules and Operating Instructions Before First Use of This Product. If you have questions when installing, operating or maintaining your softener, and when setting the timer, call this toll--free number. . . Genius II Water Softener u Warranty u Start Up / Setting Timer u How It Works u Care Of u Specifications u Repair Parts 1-800-426-9345 SAVE THIS MANUAL Use plastic bag and tie provided, to hang manuals nearby the softener for future reference. Sears, Roebuck and Co. , Hoffman Estates, IL 60179 USA PRINTED IN U. S. A. WARRANTY SEARS RESIDENTIAL WATER SOFTENER FULL TEN YEAR WARRANTY AGAINST LEAKS For ten years from the date of purchase, Sears will furnish and install a new current model water softener tank or salt storage drum, free of charge, if either the tank or drum develop a leak. FULL THREE YEAR ELECTRONICS WARRANTY For a period of three years from date of purchase, Sears will replace the BRINE TANK LIGHT, ELECTRONIC BOARD, SENSOR HOUSING, WIRING HARNESS, TRANSFORMER, MICRO SWITCH, DRIVE MOTOR, OR POWER CABLE, should they be defective in material or workmanship. FULL ONE YEAR WARRANTY ON WATER SOFTENER For one year from the date of purchase, when this water softener is installed and maintained in accordance with our instructions, Sears will repair, free of charge, all other parts which may be defective in material or workmanship. TO OBTAIN WARRANTY SERVICE, SIMPLY CONTACT THE NEAREST SEARS SERVICE CENTER THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES. This warranty applies only while this product is in use in the United States. This warranty gives you specific legal rights, and you may have other rights which vary from state to state. Sears, Roebuck and Co. , D/817 WA, Hoffman Estates, IL 60179 If you want your water softener professionally installed, talk to your Sears Salesman. [. . . ] It works toward providing you with soft water for the longest time and at the most efficient salt usage. Softening capacity is used as hard water goes through the softener and hardness minerals are removed. When the computer determines that only enough capacity remains to provide soft water up to the next regeneration starting time (2:00 AM, or as otherwise set) it will schedule a regeneration. When the regeneration begins, TONIGHT goes off and *RECHARGE or RECHARGE TIME REMAINING flashes during the 2- 1/2 or 2- 3/4 hour regeneration. * NOTE: If the CLEAN feature is set to ON, a cleaning backwash (CLEAN and Bkwsh or Rinse flashes in the display, along with the minutes of the clean cycle remaining), precedes the recharge. AUTOMATIC BYPASS During the brining, brine rinse and backwash cycles of regeneration, HARD water goes through the softener valve and to the house pipes. However, you should not use hot water, if possible, because the water heater will refill with hard water. The softener, as factory programmed, regenerates from 2:00 AM to about 4:30 or 4:45 AM (depending on the salt type setting, page 7), a time when not much water is used. If you get up early in the morning and you can hear the softener regenerating, change the recharge starting time. Then regeneration will start and end that much earlier and your water heater will not refill with hard water if a hot faucet is opened. 15 SECTION 3 3A. CARE OF YOUR SOFTENER SALT¼ REFILLING STORAGE TANK/BREAKING A SALT BRIDGE NOTE: You will have a loss in softening capacity and may get partly hard water if less than 10 inches (salt monitor level 2) of salt is in the storage tank. WHEN TO REFILL WITH SALT (or potassium chloride): The Salt Monitor System (see page 10) will turn the low salt light on to warn you when to refill with salt. Check for a low salt light a few weeks after you install the softener, and every week after that. After filling, reset the Salt Monitor System, page 10. PLEASE SEE PAGE 9 FOR SALT FILLING DIRECTIONS. BE SURE TO RESET THE SALT MONITOR, PAGE 10. SALT BRIDGE Sometimes, a hard crust or salt bridge forms in the salt storage tank. When the salt bridges, an empty space forms between the water and salt. Without brine, the resin bed does not regenerate and you will have hard water. If the storage tank is full of salt, it is hard to tell if you have a salt bridge. Hold a broom handle, or like tool, up to the softener as shown in FIG. Make a pencil mark on the handle, 1² or 2² below the top height of the rim. If a hard object is felt before the pencil mark gets to the top of the tank, it' most likely a salt bridge. Do not try to break the salt bridge by pounding on the outside of the salt tank. 9 SALT BRIDGE push tool into salt bridge to break 1"- 2" - pencil mark broom handle salt salt bridge water level 16 SECTION 3 3B. CARE OF YOUR SOFTENER KEEPING THE WATER SOFTENER CLEAN NOTE: Never use cleaners having ammonia or abrasives. They may scratch and dull the surface. COVERS To keep your new Kenmore water softener looking nice, apply a coat of paste wax and repeat once a year. When dusty, wipe it with a damp cloth to keep it sparkling. NOZZLE & VENTURI A clean nozzle and venturi (FIG. [. . . ] WATER FLOW THROUGH THE SOFTENER VALVE BRINING AND BRINE RINSE CYCLES venturi drain from Valve Inlet (hard water) nozzle brine from salt storage tank bypass hard water to valve outlet position switch After fill, timer/switch action allows the motor to turn the rotor and disc into BRINING position. Suction, created by the nozzle and venturi, draws brine from the salt storage tank and injects it into the resin bed via the bottom distributor. When the brine valve closes to end brine draw, water flow continues in the same directions to slowly RINSE brine from the resin bed and to the drain. BACKWASH CYCLE flow plug drain bypass hard water to valve outlet Timer/switch action again allows the motor to turn the rotor & disc to place the valve in BACKWASH, stopping water flow to the nozzle. Water is routed down and out the bottom distributor, up through the bed, and out the top distributor to the drain. [. . . ]