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Sun 9 Jan, 2011 08:23 am
Just had my 11 yr old Rainsoft gold system softener and neutalizer serviced (3 weeks ago). both valves, controllers and timers were working fine until the power went out in the middle of the neutrilizer flush cycle the other morning as I preparing to leave for work. As you know, the softener head is computerised and retains in memory the settings and time of day in the event of a power failure. I hooked up my generator which powers most of my home and my well pump (but not the rainsoft system) and I went to work. The neutalizer head timers are electrically driven by line (transformer) power supplied to and by the softener head. With no power, the neutalizer timers stopped in cycle, and the neutralizer continued to flush because my water pump had power (my fault). The neutalizer timers were stuck in whatever part of the cycle they were in when the power died and they were not working to tell the valves what to do.....the unit flushed (by generator)while the power was down, and when the power came back up, for whatever reason, it continued to flush all day until I got home. Why it didn't finish cycle and stop I don't know. The time on the softener controller was still correct , I reset the time of day on the neuralizer (dial was off by 3 hrs ...duration of power outage) . The neuralizer timer is working, the circuit timer dial and valve lift cams in the back are moving and lifting and lowering the valve. I can manually regenerate the unit but the valve open/close times seem out of sync. with the time of regen. It is an analog timer..calender dial, time dial and curcuit timer dial. Is there a correct procedure for timing the cams in relation to the front circuit dial location? Is it time that constitutes one revolution of the curcuit timer dial? or is it one regeneration equals a complete revolution of the cicuit timer dial? What should the correlation be between the front dials and rear cams? As stated I reset the time and that was it. The cycle times and timing seems way off. I can manually start and stop the cycle but it does not seem to know when to do it its self. The white plastic rear cams have been marked preveously by sevice techs in different areas on the outside. with black and red marker, do these need correlation in some way with the rear micro switches? or detents? I cannot find any info on the setting if these timing cams.