I just purchased a rainsoft water softener and let the salt run low so there was only a few inches left in the brine tank. Should I manually regenerate now that I have filled with the appropriate level of salt or will this occur automatically? If I do manually regenerate, the owner's manual states that I'll need to manually go through each cycle. How many cycles are there and how long will all of this process take? Thanks very much!

It takes about an hour and a half to regenerate the rainsoft system, it has 4 cycles to go through.
If you manually regenerate it just push the "Regen" button until the gears start and then you should be able to leave it and it will go on it's own.

As far as needing to regenerate. No you don't need to. As long as there was salt still in the brine tank then there will be a sufficient brine concentration. For future reference if you start seeing water above the salt then that would be a good time to refill the tank. Just a little convenience tip.
Hope this helps

water_doctor- Thanks very much for this information. I appreciate your time... spodod

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water_doctor- Thanks very much for this information. I appreciate your time...spodod

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Not a problem, I'm glad that I could be of assistance.

Water Doctor... I have a rainsoft water softener and recently I noticed the brine tank is over half full with water. That doesn't seem right because over the years the salt level had to get really low before I would see water. Any idea if that means something is wrong with my system and what it takes to fix it. I'm running a manual regen now and it seems to be doing stuff but I just don't know exactly what it is supposed to be doing.

We have a rainsoft water softener that isn't providing soft water. I cleaned out the brine tank and replaced with new salt. It still is not working. Are there filters that have to be cleaned or replaced and where are they? The clock is working and it seems to go through all the cycles and its using salt. The drain hose is in the ground (we live in Florida and that's the way they installed it) could that be clogged and preventing the unit from working?

At a loss
Ken

I have a Rain Soft system that I had moved from my old house and the water seems to be running constantly on the system it looks like it is going out the drain. There are two push bypass one on each tank. I pushed the bypass on the one with the timer and it stopped. Is this the correct thing to do?

I pushed the Regen button, it went through the cycles and keeps going through them over and over again how do I get it to stop, nothing I do will make it stop.

PLEASE HELP

Sometimes we turn the water on and it is very salty. Then later it is fine. What does this mean.

I am having the same problem... any word on how to stop it and simply set it back to running as it should?