Detailed instructions for use are in the User's Guide.
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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 tollfree number. . .
Demand Special Edition Water Softener
x Warranty x Start Up / Setting Timer x How It Works x Care Of x Specifications x Repair Parts
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Sears, Roebuck and Co. , Hoffman Estates, IL 60179 USA
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WARRANTY
SEARS RESIDENTIAL WATER SOFTENER
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, defects in material or workmanship in this 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. 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. [. . . ] *Flow Plug (HVDC) Nozzle & Venturi Housing
*Flow Plug
(1EP) Screen
*INSTALL WITH NUMBERED SIDE UP CONCAVE SIDE DOWN.
IRON FROM THE RESIN BED Your water softener takes hardness minerals (cal cium and magnesium) out of the water. With clear water iron, water from a faucet is clear when first put into a glass. After 15 to 30 minutes, the water begins to cloud or turn rust colored. A water softener will not remove any iron which makes the water cloudy or rusty as it comes from the faucet (called red water iron). To take red water iron out of water, or over the maximum of clear water iron, an iron filter
or other equipment is needed. Your local Sears store has trained people to help you with iron water problems. If your water supply has clear water iron, even though less than the maximum allowed, regular resin bed cleaning is needed. Printed instruc tions are on the resin bed cleaner bottle.
IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT CLEANING AND MAINTAINING YOUR SOFTENER, CALL TOLL FREE, NUMBER 1-800-426-9345. 15
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3C.
CARE OF YOUR SOFTENER
KEEP THE SOFTENER FROM FREEZING FIG. 11 DRAIN WATER FROM THE
SOFTENER
If the softener is installed where it could freeze (summer cabin, lake home, etc. ), you must drain all water from it to stop possible freeze damage. Close the shut off valve on the house main water pipe, near the water meter or pressure tank. Open a faucet in the soft water pipes to vent pressure in the softener. In a 3 valve bypass system, close the inlet and outlet valve and open the bypass valve. If you want water in the house pipes again, reopen the shut off valve on the main water pipe. Carefully remove the large holding clips at the softener inlet and outlet (see Key No. Remove the brinewell cover and disconnect the brine valve tubing at the nozzle and venturi assembly (see page 23). Tip the brine valve upside down to drain out water.
floor drain
wood block
8. Slowly and carefully, tip it over until the rim rests on the wood block with the inlet and outlet over the drain. Do not allow the softener's weight to rest on the inlet and outlet fittings or they will break. Tip the bottom of the softener up a few inches and hold until all water has drained. out.
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3D.
CARE OF YOUR SOFTENER
HELPFUL HINTS CHECKLIST . . . TO HELP YOU SAVE MONEY
If your water softener fails to work, make the following easy checks. [. . . ] 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. The fast flow (controlled by a flow plug in the drain fitting) flushes dirt, sediments, iron deposits, remaining brine and hardness to the drain.
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SERVICE TECH. WATER FLOW THROUGH THE SOFTENER VALVE
FAST RINSE CYCLE
drain
soft water to valve outlet
During FAST RINSE, the rotor & disc is positioned so water flow enters the resin tank through the top distributor, and exits through the bottom distributor, to the drain. [. . . ]