

Soft water is water free of hard water minerals. **After the regeneration is complete, you may want to purge your water heater to get out any hardness that may have entered the water heater while you were out of salt. Turning the center dial a few clicks to the right will initiate regeneration. *It is recommended you do not use volumes of water until the regeneration cycle is complete.įleck 5600 owners: Add salt and wait 2-3 hours before manually regenerating the water softener. If you press & hold "regen" for 5 seconds the softener will regenerate immediately. Your softener is now set to regenerate at 2am. I ran out of salt what should I do? Millennium owners, fill your salt bin then press the "regen" button for 1 second. If you have one of our Millennium water softeners we can check your past 63 days of water usage over the phone. If you are going through more than a 40# bag a month give us a call. The average family should use a 40# bag of crystal salt a month.


Crystal salt is typically found in a blue bag and can be readily found at grocery stores, wholesale clubs, home improvement stores and gas stations. Also labled solar salt or extra course solar crystals. You will not come in contact with water found in the brine tank but if the ring bothers you, you can simply wipe it off with a damp paper towel. Crystal salt may contain a small amount of silica sand (very fine and not harmful to the water softener) but it make create a brown ring at the water line. Crystal salt does not produce the paste like material like you find with pellet salt therefore, no maintenance is required. Do I need to routinely clean my salt bin?
