Water HP-Soft-2 Installation Manual - Installation

Installation  

1.  Turn off gas or electric supply to the water heater. 

2.  Turn off the water supply to pipes to be cut and drain the house water pipes. 

3.  Open both hot and cold faucets. 

4.  Move the softener assembly into installation position.   

  Be sure the installation surface is level and smooth. 

5.  Plumb IN and OUT connections to and from softener.  

  Be sure the incoming hard water supply is directed to the INLET port of the valve. 

  The valve body of the control is marked with arrows indicating the proper flow direction. 

  Connections are illustrated below. 

Figure 1 

CAUTION: If making a soldered copper installation, do all sweat soldering before connecting pipes to the bypass valve. 

Torch heat will damage plastic parts. 

CAUTION: When turning threaded pipe fittings onto plastic fittings, use care not to cross-thread. 

CAUTION: Use Teflon tape on all external pipe threads. Do not use pipe joint compound. 

CAUTION: Support inlet and outlet plumbing in some manner (use pipe hangers) to keep the weight off of the valve 

fittings. 

Perform steps 6-9 to install flexible drain hose. 

Skip to step 10 to install rigid drain pipe.

6.  Find barbed hose fitting in small parts kit. Attach barbed hose fitting to the 1/2" male NPT drain outlet. 

7.  Cut the length of the hose in half. One section will be used as a valve drain hose. The remaining section will be 

used as an overflow hose in Step 11.