Water Softener Storage
I recently purchased and took on a trip a 'On The Go' water softener. It worked great. After I got back, I followed the instructions for regeneration. At the bottom, it said that you should drain...
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Rmack1 wrote:Probably because the ion exchange from the resin is not as high after storage as it would be with a fresh regeneration. It could also be that the resin beads form a slight depositing if allowed to dry completely and regenerating removes that.Bill.Satellite wrote:
If you regenerate your water softener and do not use it, you do not need to regenerate again. If you don't believe me hook up the WS and run a bit of water through it and then use one of the hardness strips to see what it reads. If it was reading soft when you stored it, it will be reading soft when you pull it out again. What could possibly cause it to show otherwise when no hard water passed through the resins?
Well, this is sort of what I thought, but the directions seemed to be based on a different evaluation.
You could do an experiment and see if storing the softener tank filled with deionized water makes a regeneration cycle unneeded but it is just about as much work as doing a regeneration.
