How Your Water Softener Works - Kinetico 2020c Manual Del Usuario

How Your Water Softener Works

Hard water contains calcium and magnesium.Your Kinetico 2020c contains
resin beads, which hold sodium ions.When hard water passes through the
resin beads inside a Kinetico 2020c, the beads attract and hold the calci-
um and magnesium ions in exchange for sodium.After this ion exchange
process, the water leaving your Kinetico 2020c is soft (fig.1).
Once the resin bed is loaded with calcium and magnesium ions, it must
be cleansed (or regenerated) so that it can continue to soften water.The
salt in your salt storage tank mixes with water to wash the resin beads.
The brine solution loosens the hardness minerals which have built up
on the resin beads; then the system backwashes and flushes the hardness
minerals away.
Once this is complete, the resin beads hold sodium ions. The system is
again ready to exchange the sodium ions for more calcium and magne-
sium ions.
The Kinetico 2020c regenerates with soft water. Since you already know
what a difference cleaning with soft water can make throughout your
home, it only makes sense that the Kinetico 2020c cleans itself with soft
water too. And your system uses only clean, soft water to make the salt
solution in the salt storage tank.
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