Hi Greg, Love your presentation here! I have 20 month old Clack 1.25 iron filter using greensand 18-60 mesh similar to this one your working with here. It was working great and the only thing I have maintained so far is changing the battery as I could not reset the time given the power outages we’ve had. I am curious if you could tell us how it could spread greensand particles throughout the house end taps? I mostly find it in the bathtub after it is drained and clogged the washing machine where the cold water line will not flow thru its valve. When I drain about 5 gals of water from the pressure tank there is no gravel or particles from the well. Or could a larger media like 12-5 mesh birm be helpful here? The well water ph is 7.7 after treatment and just has low amounts of Iron, manganese and a bit of sulfer smell. The clack products have been great for us over the years. Thanks Again for sharing the tear down video with us all and Kinds Regards.
Hello Richard, Normally this is caused from the greensand bed over lifting during the backwash cycle. In a water softener you have a top collector basket just under the control valve to prevent over lifting media into the control valve On all iron filter there is not top collector baskets. So when it over lifts the media , it will go onto the seal, spacer and piston area. When the control goes back into service it will push any media in the piston area into the service water, which then ends up in your aerators. Normally, if a water softener follows the iron filter this does not happen as the softener catches the debris. If you have no softener then you may want to downsize the dlfc buttons under the drain clip or install a post filter after the iron filter.
Hi Greg, Thank you so much for your response! Wow you have given me a bit more courage to work on it and I have collected about 3 manual so far but still not sure I want to break into it given I know just enough to get in to trouble!! I recently looked at this during regen and noted it does have a small leak below the Main board prob. from the piston area seals wearing out already! This is so different than our older one. It had another tank to exaust the sulfur smell to the out side of the house along with a micronizer before the pressure tank and run clock that turned the valves on and off!! I do have a filter to install at the laundry area for the cold water just have not installed it yet. The black media fines are prob. going into our hot water tank and more than likely depleting the greensand quicker than it should. Greg, Thanks again and I am so grateful for your comments here.
This without doubt is the very best information that I have been able to find on the Clack Valve, your presentation is clear and very easy to understand. Mine is not drawing brine, after checking the injector and the drain line flow control everything looks good, though there is not suction. Any suggestions on how to proceed?
Glad it was helpful! If its not drawing brine, you either hane a bad seal stack, air leak where the brine line meets the brine tank connection or where the brine line meets the control valve. It can also be a bad pick up tune inside the brine tank. Many times people who use PELLET SALT will clog the bottom of the salt tank with salt binder mud. Brine solution can not pass by this sludge.
@@ambassadorscall Did a complete disassembly according the your video, and initiated regen last night. This morning the brine tank is full of water almost to the top, before last night the water level was considerably lower. Also, the readout is stuck at "Fill" and is reading "Salt". There is no suction at the valve, and the stacker appears okay, smooth seals like you mentioned. I replaced the entire drain line several days ago, and the injector is clean. Scratching my head trying to figure out what to do.
Awsome explanation, I have a doubt, in the last part you were showing how to read the history of the softener which includes how many gallons it has filtered, the number of regeneration in its life and all, is there a way to make it zero? I am asking this because a unit that looks very old and used, shows everything zero as if it has never been used, which can be correct as long as no one can override or reset these values. I just want to know if it's possible to make numbers look like it's new even though it's not. Sorry for the long comment, hope to see your thoughts on this asap.cheers!
@@ambassadorscall so that means there is no way to clear out those numbers from the board and will stay like hardcoded, hope I got it correct and thanks a ton for such a quick reply🙏🏻
This is the best tutorial on the water softener. Thank you thank you thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for tutorial! Fixed leaking drain by replacing guts.
Except for the control panel, this looks exactly like my Hellenbrand Pro Mate 6.0. Great video!
That's because it came off the same assembly line.😊
Lots off information great 👍🏽 thank you 🙏🏽
Hi Greg, Love your presentation here! I have 20 month old Clack 1.25 iron filter using greensand 18-60 mesh similar to this one your working with here. It was working great and the only thing I have maintained so far is changing the battery as I could not reset the time given the power outages we’ve had. I am curious if you could tell us how it could spread greensand particles throughout the house end taps? I mostly find it in the bathtub after it is drained and clogged the washing machine where the cold water line will not flow thru its valve.
When I drain about 5 gals of water from the pressure tank there is no gravel or particles from the well. Or could a larger media like 12-5 mesh birm be helpful here? The well water ph is 7.7 after treatment and just has low amounts of Iron, manganese and a bit of sulfer smell. The clack products have been great for us over the years. Thanks Again for sharing the tear down video with us all and Kinds Regards.
Hello Richard,
Normally this is caused from the greensand bed over lifting during the backwash cycle.
In a water softener you have a top collector basket just under the control valve to prevent over lifting media into the control valve
On all iron filter there is not top collector baskets. So when it over lifts the media , it will go onto the seal, spacer and piston area. When the control goes back into service it will push any media in the piston area into the service water, which then ends up in your aerators. Normally, if a water softener follows the iron filter this does not happen as the softener catches the debris. If you have no softener then you may want to downsize the dlfc buttons under the drain clip or install a post filter after the iron filter.
Hi Greg, Thank you so much for your response! Wow you have given me a bit more courage to work on it and I have collected about 3 manual so far but still not sure I want to break into it given I know just enough to get in to trouble!! I recently looked at this during regen and noted it does have a small leak below the Main board prob. from the piston area seals wearing out already! This is so different than our older one. It had another tank to exaust the sulfur smell to the out side of the house along with a micronizer before the pressure tank and run clock that turned the valves on and off!! I do have a filter to install at the laundry area for the cold water just have not installed it yet. The black media fines are prob. going into our hot water tank and more than likely depleting the greensand quicker than it should.
Greg, Thanks again and I am so grateful for your comments here.
This without doubt is the very best information that I have been able to find on the Clack Valve, your presentation is clear and very easy to understand. Mine is not drawing brine, after checking the injector and the drain line flow control everything looks good, though there is not suction. Any suggestions on how to proceed?
Glad it was helpful! If its not drawing brine, you either hane a bad seal stack, air leak where the brine line meets the brine tank connection or where the brine line meets the control valve. It can also be a bad pick up tune inside the brine tank. Many times people who use PELLET SALT will clog the bottom of the salt tank with salt binder mud. Brine solution can not pass by this sludge.
@@ambassadorscall
Did a complete disassembly according the your video, and initiated regen last night. This morning the brine tank is full of water almost to the top, before last night the water level was considerably lower. Also, the readout is stuck at "Fill" and is reading "Salt". There is no suction at the valve, and the stacker appears okay, smooth seals like you mentioned. I replaced the entire drain line several days ago, and the injector is clean. Scratching my head trying to figure out what to do.
Bingo, it was the seal stack, installed a new one and we once again have soft water!
What is the problems code 101?
I gave up trying to fix mine..spent $500 in parts..taking it to the dump!
Who sells the stack kit?
The stack is a clack number v3005 on the ws1 contril valve or
V3430 on the ws125 valve.
I can send you one if needed
Awsome explanation, I have a doubt, in the last part you were showing how to read the history of the softener which includes how many gallons it has filtered, the number of regeneration in its life and all, is there a way to make it zero? I am asking this because a unit that looks very old and used, shows everything zero as if it has never been used, which can be correct as long as no one can override or reset these values. I just want to know if it's possible to make numbers look like it's new even though it's not. Sorry for the long comment, hope to see your thoughts on this asap.cheers!
Harse.... this would indicate that the electronic board has been replaced
@@ambassadorscall so that means there is no way to clear out those numbers from the board and will stay like hardcoded, hope I got it correct and thanks a ton for such a quick reply🙏🏻
@@Infino985 that is correcr. Its like a cars odometer. Allows the facts to be told on that control valves history
Yep..... Easy peasy to repair this control valve.
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