I have a 48,000 Grain water softener that I bought and Installed. Everything worked great, and It worked fine with the settings "out of the box" i.e. 15 lbs of salt and 854 gallons before a new regeneration. Obviously, that is excessive salt use for a family of 4 with 17 gpg hardness and 1 ppm iron.
I was able to get those settings correct after about a week, but I found that the 18x33 brine tank that came with the unit was too large for the room the softener sits in. I bought a used 12x14 rectangular brine tank locally from a softener guy for 50.00. I gave him the brine well and float and the 18x33 tank and he gave me this new (used) tank that came off a old technetic softener. When I installed the new brine tank, I found that when the softener (fleck
5600se) goes into brine/rinse stage, it starts sucking air and it makes the water throughout the house salty and fizzy (lots of air in the water). Is this because the float in the new (old) tank not compatible with the 5600??? Thanks