McGill Plumbing: Serving All Of Pinellas County

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Welcome to our water treatment section. Our goal is to provide you with a magnitude of information on water treatment, such as water softeners, water filters and reverse osmosis. You will also find useful information in our FAQ section. Please feel free to call. Our water treatment professionals will be more than happy to answer your questions.

WATER SOFTENERS: BASIC THEORY, COMPONENTS AND OPERATION

Three basic components for all water softening systems:

The controller (or head)
The mineral tank (also called the resin tank)
The brine tank (also called the salt tank)

Two types of controllers

Demand controlled (also called meter controlled)

Time controlled (also called day wheel controlled)

Two types of demand/metered controllers

Solid state

Cable and gear driven

Two types of brine systems

Dry brine systems (uses as shelf with water underneath

wet brine system (no shell, salt fills the entire tank)

Three types of power supply

120 Volts (standard wall outlet)

24 Volts (transformer plugs into standard wall aoutlet)

Water driven (no electric used i. e. Kinetico/Marlo-GLC)

Two types of regenerant used

Sodium chloride (solar salt, rock salt, pellet salt)

Potassium chloride (k-life)

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