WATER SOFTENER Troubleshooting – CONSTANTLY DRAINING

Do you have water constantly trickling or maybe even flowing quickly from your water softener to the drain? How do you stop all that water from being wasted and how do you troubleshoot and repair the problem? If you’re looking for a solution, this video is for you and I’m going to show you how to fix it right now!
The quickest way to confirm that the fast flowing water you hear is being caused by your water filtration equipment and to stop the flow is to bypass it. If the flowing stops, your right, that water softener is the culprit! By the way this same troubleshooting applies for an iron filter https://waterestore.ca/search?type=product&q=iron*%20filter* and back washable filter too! https://waterestore.ca/search?type=product&q=hum*%20back*
The next step would be to check to see if the valve is in service or in a regeneration cycle. In service there should be no water flowing to the drain while during regeneration there definitely should be water flowing to the drain and there would be no concern.
Water constantly flowing to the drain from your water softener can either be flowing slowly, which you can just barely hear, or quickly were the water is gushing through the drain line to the drain. When it’s flowing quickly you can grab the drain line and if you feel vibration from the line you’ve just confirmed it.
When you suspect it’s flowing slowly, you can confirm it by a number of ways. If the drain line is sitting in a drain stack you can pull it out to check. If the drain line is attached at both ends it becomes a little more difficult. First, make sure the water softener https://waterestore.ca/search?type=product&q=hum*%20water*%20softener* is in service and not in the middle of a regeneration cycle. You do that by looking at the valve and make sure that if it is an electronic valve it is not counting down a cycle. If it’s a mechanical valve make sure the “window” is displaying “Service”.
Then put the water softener in bypass and disconnect the drain line, being careful to catch any water coming from the drain line especially if it discharges up.
Once disconnected, slowly open the bypass valve, if you have a leak to drain water will slowly or quickly flow from the drain port on the valve. Once confirmed, re attach the drain line.
Whether the flow to the drain line is caused by the valve being stuck or water leaking past the piston seals the solution is one of two things. Either the motor has stopped working and cannot advance the valve through the cycles or the seals need to be replaced because they have become compromised and are holding the piston in place against it’s will or they have become compromised and water is leaking past the pistons.
If you have an Aquamaster or WaterBoss water softener the solution is to replace the drive end cap assembly, I’ve got a great video that shows you how here https://youtu.be/gconWJRDAJM
For a Clack WS1 Water filtration valve, it’s easy:
1) Start a regeneration and bypass the water softener.
2) Disconnect the drain line and catch any water that might be in the drain line.
3) Remove the faceplate and unplug the power
4) Unplug the electrical connections and remove the Drive Bracket
5) Unscrew the Drive Cap Assembly and pull out the piston and regenerant piston, if there is one.
6) Remove the Spacer stack assembly.
7) Replace the spacer stack and piston(s), reassemble in the reverse order.
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