Kinetico Premier Series Manuel utilisateur

Kinetico

PREMIER

SERIES®

WATER SOFTENERS

Model/Product Numbers:

2030s (11020A)

2040s OD (11120)

2050s (11112)

2050c (12503A)

2060s (11006)

2060s OD (11201)

2100s (11032)

2175s (11036)

4040s OD (11057)

4050s (11092)

4040s OD w/Chloraban™(16515)

4060s OD w/Carbon (11215)

4060s OD w/Macrolite® RX (11223)

Owner’s Manual

Guide d’utilisation

Manual del usuario

High Performance Softening and

Combination Systems

Owner’s Manual

Congratulations for choosing Kinetico to improve the quality of your water.

You will immediately begin to notice the numerous beneﬁts of having quality

water throughout your home and the beneﬁts of having a Kinetico Quality

Water System.

Since 1970, Kinetico Incorporated has designed and manufactured products

to improve the quality of your water. Kinetico oﬀers a complete line of quality

water systems to solve your water problems. Pioneers in non-electric, demand

operated water treatment, Kinetico continually sets the direction for the entire

water quality industry.

“Kinetico,”the Kinetico logo, "Premier Series", "Macrolite", and“Overdrive” are registered trademarks in the

United States, other countries or both, of Kinetico Incorporated, Newbury, Ohio.

Table of Contents

Kinetico Water Softeners and Combination Systems ...................... 3

What Makes Your Kinetico Premier Series® Water Softener Dierent Is What

Makes It Better ........................................................... 5

How Your Water System Works .......................................... 7

Kinetico Combination Systems ........................................... 8

Maintaining Your Water System

Changing the Filter ............................................. 10

Adding Regenerant ............................................. 1 1

Manual Regeneration............................................ 12

By-pass ........................................................ 12

Cold Weather Protection ....................................... 13

Sanitizing the System ........................................... 13

Iron Cleaning.................................................... 13

Salt Bridge...................................................... 13

Commonly Asked Questions ............................................ 14

Glossary of Terms ....................................................... 16

Softening System Diagram .............................................. 17

Maintenance Record .................................................... 18

Version Francaise .........................................................F1

Version Espanõl ..........................................................E1

Kinetico Incorporated

10845 Kinsman Rd.

Newbury, Ohio, 44065

USA

www.kinetico.com

Kinetico UK Limited

Bridge House

Park Gate Business Centre

Chandler’s Way

Park Gate SO 31 1FQ

England

www.kinetico.co.uk

Kinetico Canada Incorporated

21 Parr Blvd., Unit 10

Bolton, ON L7E 4G3

Canada

www.kinetico.com

Kinetico France

Sarl

B.P. 80528 Osny

95528 Cergy-Pontoise Cedex

France

www.kinetico.fr

Kinetico Denmark

ApS

Sandvadsvej7

4600 Køge

Denmark

Kinetico Germany GmbH

Bunzlauerstrasse 12-D

Höher-Grenzhausen

Germany 56203

Kinetico Water Softeners and

Combination Systems

Now that your Kinetico water system is installed, you can enjoy all the beneﬁts

of having soft water. If you are not accustomed to soft water, here are some tips

to follow to get the most beneﬁt from your new system:

How to use soft water

Use pure soap products.

Most leading brands of laundry soaps, household cleaners and shampoos

contain large amounts of detergents. e harsh chemicals in these detergents

are necessary when using hard water, but you can reduce your use or eliminate

them altogether with soft water. We recommend you use pure soap products;

clear liquid soaps without dyes and perfumes. If you continue to use your

normal detergents, you should signiﬁcantly reduce the amount used. Your

local, authorized Kinetico dealer can provide you with more information and

recommended detergent amounts.

Use less soap and household cleaners.

When using soap or cleaners with soft water, start by cutting the amount

of soap you normally use in half. You may even ﬁnd you can use as little as

one-quarter the amount you were using before. Hardness minerals in water

interfere with soap’s cleaning ability. Once they are removed, soap can do its job

better. Even though you’ll use less soap, you’ll get more suds and cleaner results.

It’sespeciallyimportanttoreducetheamountof laundrysoap youuse.Washing

clothes in soft water not only means you’ll need less soap to get your clothes

clean, but also that the soap you do use will rinse out completely. Washing

in soft water makes your clothes look whiter and brighter, and they’ll last

longer too. It is very important not to let your clothes sit in the washer after

the cycle is complete. Otherwise, mildew and a musty smell could develop.

Detergent buildup can stain your clothing. Again, Kinetico recommends that

you use clear, liquid soaps, without dyes or perfumes.

After bathing in soft water, your skin should feel“slippery.” It’s not soap left on

your skin. What you’re feeling is your own smooth skin without any leftover

soap curd or residue. When you bathed in hard water, you were never able to

rinse this residue oﬀ completely. e soap curd that left a ring in your bathtub

was also left on your skin. But now that you have soft water, you’ll feel soft,

smooth and clean. e same holds true for rinsing shampoo out of your hair.

Reduce or eliminate the use of fabric softeners.

Fabrics washed in hard water retain soap curd or residue making them

“crackle”when removed from the dryer or stiﬀ if air-dried. Fabric softeners are

necessary with hard water to keep your clothing soft, but with soft water, you

can reduce your use of fabric softeners or eliminate them altogether.

Take special precautions with automatic dishwashers.

Soft water, when combined with caustic phosphates

in some dishwasher detergents and very high

temperatures in the dry cycle, can etch dishes

and glassware. To prevent this possibility:

• use the“no heat” dry cycle on your dishwasher;

• use the minimum amount of a good quality,

low phosphate dishwasher detergent needed

to clean your dishes. is may be as little as

20 percent of the amount recommended by

the appliance manufacturer or on the dishwasher

soap box;

• wash good china and crystal by hand.

Special care for plants and ﬁsh.

Depending on your water hardness level, amount of rainfall and how often you

water, you could use soft water for outside watering, but

why waste your soft water? Water your lawn, shrubs

and outside plants from an outside hard water faucet

or put your Kinetico water system in by-pass before

watering. See “By-pass” on page 12 for instructions

on by-passing your system.Manyhouseplants can be

watered with soft water, although some houseplants

can be highly sensitive to the elevated level of sodium

ions in soft water.You may prefer to water houseplants

with hard water or water from a Kinetico reverse

osmosis system.

Fish accustomed to hard water may have trouble with an abrupt change to soft

water. Make the change gradually over a period of seven to 14 days by blending

hard and soft water until the tank contains 100 percent soft water. Once you

begin using soft water, you should notice that your ﬁsh tank stays cleaner longer.

What Makes Your Kinetico Premier Series®

Water Softener Dierent Is What Makes It

Better

Kinetico water systems are powered by the energy of moving water,not electricity.

So there’s nothing to plug in, no buttons to push, timers to set and reset, or

adjustments to make.You really don’t need to do anything special to operate your

Kinetico water system—it runs itself, not you.

Your Kinetico water system has a built-in water meter which means it operates

“on demand” based on your actual water usage. With demand operation, your

Kinetico water system can regenerate at any time of the day or night and you’ll

still have plenty of soft water available. It regenerates when necessary, so a simple

ﬂush of the toilet or run of the faucet can send your Kinetico water system into

regeneration. Depending on your water usage, your Kinetico water system could

regenerate more frequently (if you have a house

full of guests,for instance) or not at all for several

days (if you’re on vacation). Demand operation

ensures maximum eﬃciency while providing you

with a continuous supply of soft water — even

as your water usage changes.

e actual regeneration process of a

Kinetico water system is diﬀerent from other

systems. Kinetico water systems use a process

called countercurrent regeneration (instead of an

old fashioned, 4- or 5-cycle regeneration) which

has long been recognized as the optimum process

for regenerating a resin bed (Fig. 1). Kinetico is

able to eﬀectively use this process since our water

systems regenerate with soft water.

e twin tank design of a Kinetico water

system provides you with a continuous supply

of soft water any time of day, even through the

regeneration process. When one tank needs to

regenerate, service automatically switches to the

other tank (Fig. 2). So go ahead and do a week’s

worth of laundry in one day.Your Kinetico water

system can handle it.

Highly Ecient Regeneration

Kinetico systems clean

themselves with soft water

using countercurrent

regeneration. This process

reduces regenerant and water

usage and regenerates the resin

beads more eectively.

Fig. 1

Fig. 2

Twin Tank Design

Twin tanks provide an uninterrupted

supply of soft water, 24 hours a day.

Overdrive® Enhanced

Select Kinetico softening, ﬁltration and combination systems are Overdrive

enhanced for maximum performance and eﬃciency. With Overdrive, you can

expect better ﬂow without compromising water quality.

Overdrive directs the ﬂow of water through both tanks of the system

simultaneously during service cycles.Water ﬂow is distributed evenly between

the tanks, increasing ﬂow, increasing contact time with media and decreasing

pressure loss through the system. During a regeneration cycle, one tank

is available to provide normal service ﬂow. When the cycle is complete, both

tanks are immediately placed back into service.

Should you have any questions or need any assistance, contact your local,

authorized Kinetico dealer.

NOTE: Repair leaky faucets, toilets or pipes to ensure proper product

performance.

How Your Water System Works

Hard water contains calcium and magnesium. Your Kinetico water system

contains resin beads, which hold sodium ions. When hard water passes through

the resin beads (Fig. 3) inside a Kinetico water system, the beads attract and

hold the calcium and magnesium ions in exchange for sodium. After this ion

exchange process, the water leaving your Kinetico water system is soft.

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. e salt in your

salt storage tank mixes with water to wash the resin beads. e brine solution

loosens the hardness minerals which have built up on the resin beads; then the

system backwashes and ﬂushes the hardness minerals and salt solution away.

Once this is complete, the resin beads hold sodium ions. e system is again

ready to exchange the sodium ions for more calcium and magnesium ions.

Softening

Cycle

Regeneration

Cycle

Fig. 3

Unlike most other systems, the Kinetico water system’s cleaning or regeneration

process is done 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 water system cleans itself with soft water too.And only clean, soft water

is used to make the salt solution in the salt storage tank.

Kinetico Combination Systems

Your Kinetico combination system is two systems in one! It provides additional

ﬁltration capabilities above and beyond the softening performed by a standard

Kinetico water system.Kinetico combination systems havethe samegreat features

that make our water systems so unique (see“What Makes Your Kinetico Water

System Diﬀerent...” section of this manual) as well as additional technology

designed to provide you with the best water possible.

Kinetico oers the following combination systems:

Kinetico Premier Series 4040s with Overdrive—Activated Carbon

High eﬃciency water softening system with two tanks of activated carbon for whole-

house dechlorination. Removing chlorine from your water allows you to enjoy odor-

free showers, eliminate the skin-drying eﬀects of chlorine, and prevent premature

fading/bleaching of your favorite clothing and linens.

Kinetico Premier Series 4040s with Overdrive—Chloraban™

High eﬃciency water softening system with two tanks of Chloraban for whole-house

dechloramination. Removing chloramine from your water allows you to enjoy odor-

free showers, eliminate the skin-drying eﬀects of chloramine, and prevent premature

fading/bleaching of your favorite clothing and linens.

Kinetico Premier Series 4060s with Overdrive—Activated Carbon

High eﬃciency water softening system with two tanks of activated carbon for whole-

house dechlorination.

Kinetico Premier Series 4060s with Overdrive—Macrolite® RX

High eﬃciency water softening system with two tanks of Macrolite RX ﬁne ceramic

ﬁltration media for whole-house ﬁltration of ferric (oxidized) iron and particles and

the removal of cloudiness. Filtering unwanted particles and elements from your water

helps to minimize staining, and prolong the life of your appliances and plumbing

system.

* Overdrive directs the ﬂow of water through both tanks of the system simultaneously during

service cycles.

Chlorine and Chloramine reduction are not part of Standard 44 NSF/ANSI

certiﬁcation.

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