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Culligan Water Softener Operating & Maintenance Manuals & Guides
Where to find the manual for your water conditioner or water softener.
Direct links to free, download-able water softener manuals or water conditioner manuals for many Culligan water softener brands & models.
Select the correct installation or operation & repair manual for your Culligan water softener brand and model to be sure that you have exactly the right instructions for installing, maintaining, or troubleshooting your water conditioner.
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Culligan Water Softener Installation, Operation & Service / Repair Manuals
The following list of water softener or water conditioner manuals is for all Culligan water softeners;
Contact: Culligan International Company, Culligan International Company, 9399 West Higgins Road, Suite 1100, Rosemont, Illinois 60018 USA, Tel: 1-847-430-2800 offices in California, France, Italy, Canada, Spain, and the United Arab Emirates.
Also see Culligan's manuals at https://www.eculligan.com/service-and-manuals.php
Culligan HIGH EFFICIENCY HE 1.25 WATER SOFTENER OWNERS GUIDE [PDF] Culligan Water, Tel: 1-877-386-0823 Website: https://www.culligan.com/dealer-locator/contact-us (page to find a local Culligan water equipment dealer or repair service, retrieved 2018/07/08, original source https://www.culligan.com/CulliganCom/media/products/HE_1_25_Inch_Water_Softener_Owners_Guide.pdf
Culligan HE 9" Softener-Cleer Water Conditioner Excerpts:
This system is certified for barium and radium 226/228 reduction based on hardness reduction. It is recommended you test your water every six months to ensure the system is performing properly and that hardness, and therefore barium and radium 226/228, are being reduced.
Hardness test strips have been included. Additional strips are available from your local Culligan dealer.... The Culligan High Efficiency 9” Softener-Cleer Water Conditioner has been tested according to NSF/ANSI standard
42 for effective reduction of iron up to 2,000 gallons with influent dissolved iron level up to 10 ppm.
Culligan HE 10" Softener-Cleer Water Conditioner
Culligan HE 12" Softener-Cleer Water Conditioner
Culligan HE 14" Softener-Cleer Water Conditioner
Culligan HE 9" Softener-Cleer Plus Water Conditioner
Culligan HE 10" Softener-Cleer Plus Water Conditioner
Culligan HE 12" Softener-Cleer Plus Water Conditioner
Culligan HE 14" Softener-Cleer Plus Water Conditioner
[7] Culligan Mark 10 Water Softener 1994-1998 Installation and Operating Instructions (covering models manufactured after 1995) (1-96) 01881948.pdf available from www.culligan.com
[2] Culligan Mark 10 Water Softener 1994-1998 Installation and Operating Instructions (covering models manufactured after 1995) (1-96) 01881948.pdf available from www.culligan.com
Culligan notices typically found in softener manuals:
Watch out: the company's literature typically includes the following warnings or advice.
SODIUM INFORMATION: Water softeners using sodium chloride for regeneration add sodium to the
water. Persons who are on sodium restricted diets should consider the added sodium as part of their
overall sodium intake. - Culligan Medalst manual cited above.
The installation, service and maintenance of this equipment should be rendered by a qualified and
trained service technician.
Your local
independently
operated Culligan dealer employs trained
service and maintenance personnel who are experienced in the installation,
function
and repair
of
Culligan equipment.
This publication
is written specifically
for these individuals
and is intended
for
their use.
We encourage Culligan users to learn about Culligan products,
but we believe that product
knowledge is best obtained
by consulting
with your Culligan dealer. Untrained individuals
who use
this manual
assume the risk of any resulting property damage or personal injury. - Culligan Medalst manual cited above.
Question: Culligan HE (with aquasensor), 9" model
Hi, I have a Culligan HE (with aquasensor), 9" model (1 cu ft of resin). The board on the control unit does all the calculations for salt dosage and even has default settings for backwash time, brine draw-rinse and fast-rinse times based on the hardness value I input (around 14 GPG in our city).
The current (default) settings for backwash, brine draw-rinse and fast-rinse for 14 GPG is 5 min, 62 min, and 5 min, respectively.
I want to ensure that enough time is set to a) backwash to clear the resin bed of any debris without fluidizing the resin and losing media, b) rinse out any excess regenerant solution (fast-rinse) and I am concerned that 5 mins for backwash and 5 min for fast-rinse is not sufficient.
Can you recommend a better setting? We are currently set to Proportional Brining and both our flow meter and aqua-sensor can trigger regen. Thanks! - Julie 9/15/12
Reply:
Julie, forgive me for not understanding, but if you know the water hardness and are using that input and then selecting the manufacturer's recommended settings, I'm unclear why you'd want to make a change - are you using recommended settings but seeing a problem?
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Great question, Anon, and with apology, there's not one "always right" answer. Typically the pin is pushed in but some softener controls may work the opposite way.
On a Culligan, pushing the pin IN activates that interval or recharge day and pulling the pin OUT skips that day.
On 2020-09-11 by Anonymous
I have a 25 year old softener and need to reset the day wheel pin. Does it get pushed in or pulled out
On 2017-04-12 by (mod) -
Shar: also if you search InspectApedia for WATER CONDITIONER / SOFTENER MANUALS you'll find a link to the instructions for the Culligan N8 timer/control at our website - as free download
On 2016-12-21 by (mod) re: Culligan water softener settings
Anon:
All of the water softener settings I've been able to find are listed and described in the article WATER SOFTENER ADJUSTMENT & CONTROLS. There are several of which setting the timer or clock, the salt dose, and backwash frequency are critical.
If there is a constant drip at a softener backwash drain that continues hours after a regen cycle then there's a leaky valve or bad o-ring to find and repair.
On 2016-12-21 by Anonymous
I have a Culligan water softener and know the backwash time should be 8 to 10 minutes, what about the other settings, what to set them at?
Also, I hear a drip, drip, from the softener going down the drain often enough to worry about how much water is going "wasted" down the drain.. some is going down the drain, the loudest drip is inside the water softener itself, is this normal?
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[9] Culligan Mark 10 Water Softener 1994-1998 Installation and Operating Instructions (covering models manufactured after 1995) (1-96) 01881948.pdf available from www.culligan.com
[10] Water Softeners, CMHC, Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation, cmhc-schl.gc.ca/en/co/maho/wawa/wawa_005.cfm - October 2008. Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation acknowledges the contribution of Health Canada to the development of this document. For further questions regarding water treatment and water quality, contact Health Canada at watereau@hc-sc.gc.ca or call 613-957-2991 or 1-866-225-0709.
[11] "Commercial Water Softener Installation and Operating Instructions", IBC Filtration & Water Treatment Products (Australia) for commercial, industrial and residential application www.ibcwater.com.au (07) 3219 2233
[12] "Non electric water softener,
Installation and Operating Instructions", IBC Filtration & Water Treatment Products (Australia), op.cit.
[19] U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA). 1992. Manual: Wastewater Treatment/Disposal for Small Communities. EPA 625/R-92/005. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, OH.
[16] Treatment Systems for Household Water Supplies, Iron and manganese Removal, Bruce Seelig, Water Quality Specialist, North Dakota Extension Service
Russell Derickson, Extension Associate in Water and Natural Resources, South Dakota Extension Service
Fred Bergsrud, Water Quality Coordinator, Minnesota Extension Service, AE-1030, County Commissions, North Dakota State University and U.S. Department of Agriculture cooperating. Web search 04/16/2012, original source: http://www.ag.ndsu.edu/pubs/h2oqual/watsys/ae1030w.htm [copy on file as /Water/Iron_Manganese_Removal_NDSU.pdf]
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