Kenmore 625.34846 - Manual (Page 7)

SECTION 1
WATER SOFTENER START-UP
1C. PROGRAM THE TIMER
2. SET WATER HARDNESS NUMBER:
■ Press the SELECT button once to display
15 (flashing) and HARDNESS.
15
HAROMCSS
The grains per gallon (gpg)
hardness of your water supply is
on your water analysis report.
Be sure to enter water test '
results on page 2, for future reference.
NOTE:
If your water supply contains iron, compensate
for it by adding to the water hardness number.
For example, assume your water is 15 gpg hard
arid contains 2 ppm iron. Add 5 to the haidness
number for
eac/7 1 ppm of iron. In ffiis example,
you would use 25 for your hardness number.
2 ppm iron X 5 = 10
(times)
15 gpg hardness
±lfi
25 HARDNESS NUMBER
■ Press the 0UP/DOWN ^uttons to set your
water hardness number in the display. The
DOWN button moves the display to 1. The UP
button moves the display to the highest setting
(see maximum setting for your mode! in the
specifications).
NOTE:
Each press of the UP/DOWN button changes the
display by 1 between 1 and 25. Between 25 and
the highest number, the display changes 5 at a
time...25,30. 35, etc. Holding the UP or DOWN
button in changes the display twice each second.
3. SET RECHARGE (REGENERATION) TIME:
■ Press the SELECT button once to display
2:00 AM (flashing) and RECHARGE TIME.
At the 2:00 AM RECHARGE
TIME setting, the softener be­
gins regeneration (see pages 11
and 12) at 2:00 AM, ending no
later than 4:00 AM. This is a good time in most
households because water is not being used
(see AUTOMATIC BYPASS, page 13). If a
different RECHARGE TIME setting would be
better for your household, do the following.
■ Press the 0UP/DOWN ^buttons to set the
desired RECHARGE starting hour. Be sure to
observe the AM-PM as you did when setting the
present time of day.
NOTE:
Each press of tiie UP/DOWN buttons changes
the display 1 hour. Holding the buttons in
changes the display twice each second.
■ PRESS THE SELECT BUTTON ONCE
AGAiN, to return the present time (steady) of day
an RECHARGE TONIGHT in the display.
4. SET “CLEAN” FEATURE:
■ Press the SELECT button again. The dis­
play
s^temates between “CLEAn", and
“OFF” (default).
CLERn D N
CFF
When set to “CLEAn”/“ON”, a backwash is as­
sured after every 500 gallons of water usage.
Badcwash is described on page 12. This clean­
ing backwash is in addition to №e backw^h dur­
ing recharge. If you have iron in the water supply,
or higher amounts of sedimente (sand, silt, dirt,
etc.) you should set this feature to ON.
■ To set to ON, or to turn off if already on, press
either the UP or DOWN button once. The length
of this extra backwash is 1 minute (default time
setting).
SEE PAGE 10 FOR OTHER FACE PLATE TIMER FEATURES.
IMPORTANT: Salt is used to recharge the mineral in your water softener...see page 9. Before
shipping, the mineral is factory pretreated with salt Before using water from this softener, be
sure to do the sanitizing procedures and start a recharge (page 8), to flush salt from IL