Correction: Check salt dosage requirements and reset program wheel to provide additional reserve.
Cause could be that . . . Program Wheel Is Not Rotating With Meter Output.
Correction:
Correction:
Pull cable out of meter cover and rotate manually. Program wheel must move without binding
and clutch must give positive clicks when program wheel strikes regeneration stop. lf it does not, repIace
timer.
Check meter with meter checker.
Cause could be that . . . Meter Is Not Measuring Flow.
Cause couId be that . . . Reserve Capacity Has Been Exceeded.
Problem: Softener Delivers Hard Water.
General Service Hints For Meter Control
Clean drain Iine flow control.
Clean injector.
Clean screen.
lncrease Iine pressure to 20 P.S.I.
Change seals, spacers and piston assembly.
Check drive motor and switches.
Determine if switch or timer is faulty and replace it,
or replace complete power head.
Check timer program and positioning of control.
Replace power head assembly if not positioning
properly.
Remove power head assembly and inspect bore.
Remove foreign material and check control in
various regeneration positions.
Replace seals and piston assembly.
Drain Iine fIow controI is pIugged.
Injector is plugged.
Injector screen plugged.
Line pressure is too low.
InternaI control Ieak.
Service adapter did not cycle.
Missadjusted, broken or shorted switch.
Valve is not programing correctly.
Foreign material in control.
InternaI control Ieak.
A.
B.
B.
C.
C.
D.
E.
F.
A.
A.
8. Softener fails to draw brine.
PROBLEM
CAUSE
CORRECTION
9. Control cycles continuously.
10. Drain flows continuously.
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B.
B.
C.
C.
D.
E.
F.
A.
A.
MODEL F40
Service Instructions
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