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Safety Information . . . . . . . . . . . . .2
Water Softening
Installation Instructions . . .3–13
Step-by-step instructions . . . . . . .6–13
System
Operating Instructions
Owner’s Manual &
Breaking a salt bridge . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
Installation Instructions
Cleaning the nozzle and
venturi assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
Model GXSF18G
Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16
Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14, 17–19
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IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION. READ ALL INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE USING. WARNING! For your safety, the information in this manual must be followed to minimize the risk of electric shock, property damage or personal injury. SAFETY PRECAUTIONS Check and comply with your state and local codes. Use clean water softening salts only, at least 99.5% You must follow these guidelines. pure. NUGGET, PELLET or coarse SOLAR salts are recommended. Do not use rock, block, granulated Use care when handling the
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Installation Water Softening System Model GXSF18G Instructions Questions? Call 800.GE.CARES (800.432.2737) or Visit our Website at: ge.com WARNING: Read entire manual. Failure to follow all guides and rules could cause personal injury or property damage. • Check with your state and/or local public works department for plumbing codes. You must follow their guides as you install the Water Softening system. NOTE: Failure to comply with these installation instructions will void the product warranty,
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Installation Instructions UNPACKING AND INSPECTION WHERE TO INSTALL THE SOFTENER Be sure to check the entire softener for any • Place the softener as close as possible to a shipping damage or parts loss. Also note damage sewer drain, or other acceptable drain point to the shipping cartons. Contact the transportation or standpipe. company for all damage and loss claims. The • It is recommended to keep outside faucets manufacturer is not responsible for damages on hard water to save soft water
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MAIN WATER PIPE MAIN WATER PIPE Installation Instructions PLAN HOW YOU WILL INSTALL THE WARNING: Use only lead-free solder and SOFTENER flux to prevent lead poisoning. You must first decide how to run in and out pipes See Typical Installation Illustration. Use this as a guide to the softener. Look at the house main water pipe when planning your particular installation. Be sure at the point where you will connect the softener. to direct the incoming hard water supply to the Is the pipe solder
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Installation Instructions BEFORE YOU BEGIN 1 INSTALL BYPASS VALVE • Turn off the gas or electric supply to the water • Remove plastic shipping plug and wire from valve heater, in the possibility that the water heater outlet. Turbine may be drained while draining pipes. Valve outlet • Turn off the water supply to pipes to be cut and Turbine shaft and drain the house water pipes. support • Open both hot and cold faucets at the lowest NOTE: Be sure the turbine and support are firmly location poss
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Installation Instructions 3 PLUMB “IN” AND “OUT” PIPES 4 CONNECT AND RUN THE VALVE TO AND FROM SOFTENER DRAIN HOSE • Use the provided drain hose (20′ length included) CAUTION: Observe all of the following to attach to the valve drain fitting. To keep water cautions as you connect inlet and outlet pressure from blowing the hose off, use supplied plumbing. See Typical Installation Illustration. spring clamp to secure in place. Cut the necessary length and use the remainder in Step 5. • BE SURE I
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Installation Instructions 4 CONNECT AND RUN THE VALVE 5 INSTALL THE BRINE TANK DRAIN HOSE (CONT.) OVERFLOW FITTINGS AND HOSE • Elevating the drain hose may cause back • Insert the rubber grommet into the 3/4″ diameter pressure that could reduce the brine draw during hole in the brine tank sidewall as shown. recharge. If raising the drain line overhead is • Push the end of the hose adapter elbow into the required to get to the drain point, measure the grommet as shown. inlet water pressure to the
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Installation Instructions 6 INSTALL GROUNDING CLAMP 7 FLUSH PIPES, EXPEL AIR FROM SOFTENER AND TEST YOUR DANGER: Failure to properly attach INSTALLATION FOR WATER ground clamp could result in electrical shock. LEAKS (CONT.) If plumbing is metal, to maintain electrical ground • Place bypass valve in the “service” position continuity in the house cold water piping, install the EXACTLY as follows. KEEP SOFT WATER FAUCETS included ground clamp as shown. OPEN. • Clean pipe with emery paper in the ar
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Installation Instructions 9 CONNECT TO ELECTRICAL POWER To gain access to the transformer/power cord assembly, remove the salt hole cover from the softener. Unclip the tabs on the rear of the top cover and rotate the cover upward to remove. DO NOT PULL OR DISCONNECT WIRING. • The softener works on 24 volt-60Hz electric power. The included transformer changes standard 120-volt AC house power to 24 volts. Plug the transformer into a 120-volt outlet only. Be sure the outlet is always live so it
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Installation Instructions SET WATER HARDNESS NUMBER (CONT.) SET SALT LEVEL 3. When the display shows your water hardness 1. Press the MODE button SALT LEVEL (in grains per gallon), press MODE to accept. until arrow points to SALT LEVEL. NOTE: If there is clear water iron in your water supply, you will need to increase the hardness 2. Determine level of salt in setting by 5 for each 1 ppm of clear water iron brine tank using yellow indicator on side of brine in your water supply. well, inside bri
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Installation Instructions OPTIONAL CONTROL SETTINGS SIGNALS The controller display has several options and LOST TIME SIGNAL features. If time is lost on the display due to power LOW SALT ALARM SALT interruption, the blue indicator light will flash 4 LEVEL times every second, until the present time of day The LOW SALT ALARM, when is entered. enabled, will sound the beeper when the DAYS TO EMPTY value is LOW SALT SIGNAL 15 days or less. To change this setting, press and hold the MODE button for
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Installation Instructions SANITIZING PROCEDURES To complete the installation, do the following water softener, and out the drain. This process sanitizing procedures. takes approximately 2 hours. 4. If, after sanitization, water from the house Care is taken at the factory to keep your water faucet tastes salty or has a slight color, this is a softener clean and sanitary. Materials used to make preservative from the resin tank. Turn on the cold the softener will not infect or contaminate your wat
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About the water softener system. Service When the water softening system is providing After a period of time, the resin beads become soft water, it is called “Service.” During service, coated with hard minerals and they have to be hard water flows from the house main water pipe cleaned. This cleaning is called recharge. into the water softening system. Inside the water Recharge is started at 2:00 AM (factory setting) softening system resin tank is a bed made up of by the water softening system c
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ge.com Breaking a Salt Bridge Sometimes, a hard crust or salt bridge forms in Push tool into salt bridge to break the salt storage area. It is usually caused by high humidity or the wrong kind of salt. When the salt bridges, an empty space forms between the 1″–2″ water and salt. Then salt will not dissolve in the water to make brine. If the brine tank is full of salt, it is hard to tell if you have a salt bridge. Salt is loose on top, but the bridge is under it. The following is the best way to
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About the water softener system. Normal Operation, Control Displays During normal operation, the present time of day and AM or PM and DAYS TO EMPTY show in the control display area. When the demand computer determines a recharge is needed, RECHARGE TONIGHT begins to flash in the display along with the present time. RECHARGE TONIGHT flashes until the next recharge start time, then changes to RECHARGE, which flashes until the recharge is over. Feature: Optional Recharge Controls Sometimes, a man
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ge.com Service: Electronic Demand Time Features and Service ERROR CODE DISPLAYED ERR 01 ERR 02 ERR 03 ERR 04 ERR 05 POSSIBLE DEFECT • Motor •Position •Motor •Position •Control inoperative switch inoperative switch or or wiring wiring harness harness • Wiring •Control •Control •Control harness or connection to switch • Position switch • Control To remove an error code: 1. Unplug transformer. 2. Correct defect. 3. Plug transformer in. 4. Wait for at least 6 minutes. The error code will return
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About the water softener system. Service: Manually Initiated Electronics Diagnostics SALT 1. To enter diagnostics, press and hold – If there is no reading in the display, with faucet open, LEVEL the MODE button for 3 seconds until check the sensor. Pull the sensor from the valve outlet the Low Salt Alarm screen shows. port, and pass a small magnet in front of the sensor. Counter should index in the display. If counter does not index, check to make sure harness is connected 2. Press the MODE but
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ge.com Service: Manually Advance Recharge Check NOTE: The control display must show a steady NOTE: If water system pressure is low, an time (not flashing). elevated drain hose may cause back pressure, stopping brine draw. 1. Press the RECHARGE button and hold in for three seconds. RECHARGE begins to flash as 3. Again, press the RECHARGE button to move the water softening system enters the fill cycle the water softening system into backwash. of recharge. Remove the brinewell cover and, Look for a
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Care and cleaning of the water softening system. Checking the Salt Storage Level and Refilling Brine (salt dissolved in water) is needed for each Use clean water softening salts only, at least and every recharge. The water for making brine 99.5% pure. NUGGET, PELLET or coarse SOLAR is metered into the salt storage area by the salts are recommended. Do not use rock, block, water softening system valve and control. granulated or ice cream making salts. They However, you must keep the tank supplied
