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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 rnove 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
Check flow control.
Clean injector and screen.
Replace timer.
D. Replace brine valve seat and clean valve.
E. Clean brine line flow control.
A. Clean drain line flow control.
B. Clean injector.
C. lncrease line pressure to 25 P.S.I. min.
D. Check drive motor and switches.
A. Determine if switch or timer is faulty and
replace it, or replace complete power head.
A. Check timer program and positioning of
control. Replace power head assembly if not
positioning properly.
B. 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.
Line pressure is too low.
Internal Control Leak.
Plugged drain line flow control.
Plugged injector system.
Timer not cycling.
Foreign material in brine valve.
Foreign material in brine line flow
control.
A.
B.
C.
C.
8. Softener fails to draw brine.
7. Excessive water in brine tank
PROBL EM
CAUSE
CORRECTION
10. Drain flows continuously.
9. Control cycles continuously.
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
A.
B.
C.
D.
A. Missadjusted, broken or shorted
switch.
A. Valve is not programming
correctly.
B. Foreign material in control.
C. lnternal control leak
MODEL F60
F60 Downow Service Instructions