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It almost sounds like you have a system that uses a media that will correct the ph.
Water Right is the company that uses that media the most in a line of systems.
Photo?

What kind of system are we talking about?
What brand?
What size?

No problem...
When setting up any unit there is the start point based on normal numbers and then dialing in the unit to fit the house and people it is working for.

Yes.
For the next few weeks if you would like check the meter count once a day at the same time , after a week or so of checking you should have an idea as to how your usage is going.. there is no...

You have a 1.0 cubic foot unit with a max cap of 32k, is that correct?

If you are using 8 lbs of salt , cap of 20k
20k/18grains=1100 gallons
back off a day or 2 use the meter should be around...

Oh, let me think.......... There are those that say that eating meat is bad... and then there are those that say eating eggs are bad..

Name a topic and one will find those that say it is bad.
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One gallon per 3lbs of salt that is to be used the next cleaning.
Also how high the salt table is at the bottom of the tank, and how close to the bottom the float assembly ends.

There could be...

One of the last things that your unit will do is refill the brine or salt tank with X amount of water.

When the unit goes into a reg cycle it will pull the brine out of the brine or salt tank into...

You talk about air in the softener am I correct?

To the best of my knowledge there are only 2 ways that air is going to get in if there are no leaks on the valve, either from the well .. or when...

The black ball is not hard to miss, and yes one can see it set down at the bottom of the clear canister that it is in.

I have not heard of a ball just going away... but any thing is possible.

There is to be a ball, that is if you have the unit with that site glass or air check kit..
There is away around it, safety float assembly that has a ball in the pick up point of the float assembly....

Does yours have the little black ball in the clear tube on the valve?
That ball is to seat when there is no longer brine coming out of the brine or salt tank.. if it is not seating then air will get...

They could sell it to you or there are any number of on line sites that could sell the resin, the key is how much, and that information can be found through Whirlpool.

This is a Softener right?
Resin comes in a few different colors depending on the maker of the resin and which die they used to color the resin.
Call Whirlpool and give them the model and they will...

Water can only hold on to so much salt and no more.
One can only get just under 3lbs per 1 gallon of water.

On a twin softener salt usage is based on water usage.

The turbine is like that of a jet engine, like the one that we see a person standing in the intake?
Any way there are blades that the water turns and there could be one or two magnates that will...

A water test is needed. One needs to know the hardness of the water that the unit is dealing with.
How is it that the water has an 8.7-14.6 grain reading?
Capacity is based on the amount of media...

So the valve was not set up from the factory as a filter valve but as a softener and changed in the field as a filter valve?

When you replaced the valve, did it come with new flappers in or did...

The one that you are using on the birm filter should be a NON softener set up, with out any of the brine line or injector.
If you are trying to use a softener valve as a filter valve with out...

I know that there is one of the plastic ones that uses a part that is like what you are talking about, I just do not know if it can be used on your part.

update,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, NO.... they will...

Not sure if there is repair kit for the brass one.... I know that there are parts for the other two ..
Might there be a photo of the brass one that you have?

Which air injector came with your system?
There is a brass one and there are 2 plastic types..

The Fleck 5600 is one those valves that just keeps going and going and easy to rebuild..

The demand is a bit of a miss lead....... clean on demand is a twin set up.. where the unit changes tanks...

I would look for a unit that has 1.5 cubic feet of resin(C249 or Equal), turbo ... with the new sxt control on either the Fleck 5600 or 2510 either valve would work good as the times can be changed,...

The turbulator is a work horse for me here as the iron is often 4+ppm... and with the turbulator turning over 1.0 cubic foot at 2gpm in 12 minutes is a real plus in keeping the media clean or...