Kinetico 2020c Bedienungsanleitung

Owner’s Manual • Guide d'utilisation • Manual del usuario

2020c Compact Water Softener

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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 2020c

compact water softener.

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. Our products are installed in hundreds of

thousands of homes around the world. Once you enjoy the benefits of your

Kinetico water softener, we’re sure you will agree that Kinetico systems are

the world’s finest.

“Kinetico,” the Kinetico Logo and the little “Girl Drinking Water” image are registered trademarks

of Kinetico Incorporated, Newbury, Ohio, USA.

2020c Compact Water Softener

Owner’s Manual

Table of Contents

How To Use Soft Water ........................................................... 3

How Your Water Softener Works ............................................. 6

Non-Electric, Demand Operated Kinetico Valve ......................... 7

Consumer Friendly Features ...................................................... 8

Maintaining Your Water Softener ............................................ 10

Adding Regenerant ............................................................ 10

Manual Regeneration ........................................................ 11

By–Pass ............................................................................. 11

Cold Weather Protection ................................................... 12

Maintenance Tips ...................................................................... 13

Version Francaise ...................................................................... 16

Version Español ........................................................................ 30

Kinetico Incorporated

10845 Kinsman Rd

Newbury, Ohio, 44065

USA

www.kinetico.com

440-564-9111

Kinetico UK Limited

Bridge House

Park Gate Business Centre

Park Gate Hampshire SO31

1FQ

England

www.kinetico.co.uk

44-1489-566970

Kinetico Canada

Incorporated

16524 Hurontario St.

Caledon, Ontario L0N 1C0

Canada

www.kinetico.com

519-927-9500

Kinetico France Sarl

B.P.54

Parc d’Activités de la demi-Lune

2, rue Gutenberg

95420 Magny en Vexin

France

www.kinetico.fr

33.1.34.46.87.78

Kinetico Denmark

ApS

Tigervej 12-14

Køge, DK-4600

Denmark

45-56-65-14-00

2020c Compact Water Softener

The Kinetico 2020c

Now that your Kinetico 2020c 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, house-

hold cleaners and shampoos contain large

amounts of detergents.The 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 Kinetico dealer can provide you with more infor-

mation 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 lit-

tle as a quarter of 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’s especially important to reduce the amount

of washing detergent you use.Washing clothes

in soft water not only means you’ll need less

powder to get your clothes clean, but also that

the powder you do use will rinse out complete-

ly. Washing in soft water makes your clothes look

whiter and brighter, and they’ll last longer as well.

Again, Kinetico recommends that you use clear, liquid soaps, without

dyes or perfumes.

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

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

over soap curd or residue. When you bathed in hard water, you were

never able to rinse this residue off completely.The 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.The same is 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 sof-

teners 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.This 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 garden, shrubs and outside plants from

an outside hard water tap or put your

Kinetico 2020c in by–pass before watering.

See the “By–pass” section on page 11 for

instructions on by–passing your system.

Many house plants can be watered with soft

water although some can be highly sensitive

to the elevated level of sodium ions in soft

water.You may prefer to water with hard water or

water from a Kinetico Drinking Water System Plus.

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

soft water. Make the transition 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.

2020c Compact Water Softener

Drinking Water

The process of softening water adds a small amount of sodium into the

water.When a person is on a low sodium diet, all possible sources of sodi-

um should be evaluated in relation to the limit set by your doctor.

To enhance your drinking water, you may wish to consider using a

Kinetico drinking water filtration product, also available from your

Kinetico dealer. Kinetico drinking water products will significantly

improve the quality and taste of your coffee, tea, drinks and water used

for cooking and baking.

How Your Water Softener Works

Hard water contains calcium and magnesium.Your Kinetico 2020c contains

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

resin beads inside a Kinetico 2020c, the beads attract and hold the calci-

um and magnesium ions in exchange for sodium.After this ion exchange

process, the water leaving your Kinetico 2020c is soft (fig.1).

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.The

salt in your salt storage tank mixes with water to wash the resin beads.

The brine solution loosens the hardness minerals which have built up

on the resin beads; then the system backwashes and flushes the hardness

minerals away.

Once this is complete, the resin beads hold sodium ions. The system is

again ready to exchange the sodium ions for more calcium and magne-

sium ions.

The Kinetico 2020c regenerates 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 2020c cleans itself with soft

water too. And your system uses only clean, soft water to make the salt

solution in the salt storage tank.

fig. 1

2020c Compact Water Softener

Non-Electric, Demand Operated Kinetico Valve

More than 30 years of ingenuity are behind the valve that operates the

Kinetico 2020c.The valve uses the energy of moving water, not electric-

ity, so there’s nothing to plug in, no buttons to push, timers to set and reset,

adjustments to make and no increase in your electricity bill.Without hav-

ing to depend on electricity, your system is remarkably reliable.

The Kinetico valve measures the amount of water that you use and deter-

mines when to initiate a regeneration. Since it regenerates only on

demand, it won’t waste water or salt. Other systems must be programmed

to regenerate at a preset time – usually during the night. So, if you use

more soft water than usual during the day, you may end up with hard

water. And if you use less water than usual, you’ll be wasting salt and

water with unnecessary regenerations. But thanks to Kinetico’s metering

system, the Kinetico 2020c only regenerates when necessary – at any

time of the day.The twin cylinders (fig. 2) in the Kinetico system ensure

you’ll have a continuous supply of soft water, even during regeneration.

When one cylinder needs to regenerate, service automatically switches to

the other cylinder. Twin softening cylinders also enable the system to

clean itself with clean, soft water. Other water softening systems operate

with hard water and use hard water to regenerate.

The resin used in the Kinetico 2020c works extremely well in this com-

pact system.The smaller size creates more surface area, allowing for more

efficient operation.

ABAB

fig. 2

Consumer Friendly Features

Your Kinetico 2020c is loaded with convenient features that make it as easy

as possible for you to operate your system.

Easy-Open Lid

Kinetico’s hinged lid (fig. 3) means never having to fumble to fit the lid on

your softener. Simply grab the handle and pull forward to open the soften-

er for access to the salt bay. Close the lid by lifting until you feel it lock into

place. If your particular installation does not permit the use of the hinged

lid, you’ve been supplied with an alternative connection that permits you to

lift the entire lid from the system for access to the salt bay.(fig. 4)

Low-Flow Metering

Your Kinetico system is equipped with the latest technology capable of

measuring extremely low flow. As a result, you can be sure your system

is metering your water usage properly so it can regenerate at the appro-

priate time and continue to provide you with an uninterrupted supply

of soft water.

Proper Regeneration

Some system manufacturers, in an attempt to publish better performance

numbers, reduce the amount of water used during regeneration.

Unfortunately, using less water increases the chance that the system will

not completely rinse itself of the salt regenerant, and you’ll get salty water

in the home.Your Kinetico system uses just enough water to rinse any

remaining regenerant from its tanks to prevent salty water from entering

your plumbing while maintaining maximum system efficiency.

High Flow Capabilities

Your Kinetico 2020c was designed to accommodate the high flows

demanded from today’s active households. You can rest assured that,

despite its compact size, your Kinetico system can provide the soft water

you need on demand.

fig. 3

fig. 4

2020c Compact Water Softener

fig. 5

Optional Salt Bay Extension

Salt Platform

Compact, Attractive Design

The Kinetico 2020c takes up less volume that any other comparable cabinet

style water softener.That’s because Kinetico packs a lot of performance in

a small package. And if your softener is installed in an open location, you

won’t be afraid to show off its unique, modern design.

Optional Accent Kits

Optional accent kits make adapting your system as easy as possible.After all,

who knows what your décor will look like in 20 years? Available in

Kinetico blue (standard), cherry, lime, lemon and plum, Kinetico accent

kits allow you to adapt your softener to your tastes.

System Status Monitoring

If your Kinetico 2020c’s location permits viewing from the top, you can

always check your system status (service, regeneration, etc.) by looking

through the viewing window on top of the cabinet. Simply check the

indicator dot (see fig. 9 on page 12) to see what mode of operation your

system is in. And remember, even though it may be regenerating, your

Kinetico system can still provide you with soft water since it has two

softening cylinders.

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