Hello,
I have a water softening system that has an Autotrol series 255 valve/460i. Its 5 1/2 years old.
I use Potassium Chloride pellets in my brine tank. I check the brine tank regularly and have been noticing lately that the pellets are last an extra extra long time. I doubt there is any chance these pellet can bridge but I stired then up anyway.
I manually ran a cycle and noticed that when it gets to the cycle that sucks the brine in through the Air check housing it only takes in brine for a few minutes - the level in the brine tank only goes down about .25 inches. After that few minutes the brine stops coming in an it sounds like its just sucking air. I've never watched a cycle when it was in working order but I assume it should be taking in more brine than that - correct?
I cleaned the injector and the screen. There was a lot of gunk on the screen. I was going to clean the brine control too but was not sure how it comes off - does it just unscrew?
Cleaning the injector and screen did not solve the problem. Any other ideas of what might cause this?
I appreciate any help/tips.
Regards