Water Softener Brine Tank Not Filling Up

Reconnecting the water softener to the waterline should allow the brine tank to refill.

Water softener brine tank not filling up. Before you tear apart your softener check the control settings especially after a long power outage. Perhaps the most annoying of all water softener problems is noticing that your system is not actually softening the water. Recharge begins to flash as the softener s valve advances from the service to fill position. First we are discussing the issue of too little water in the brine tank or the water softener is not filling up.

Rather as water is pumped into the tank water level in the brine well blue arrow in my photo rises under control of the brine level float switch usually found inside a vertical plastic tube in the tank then pumping stops salt dissolves to prepare brine for the next regeneration cycle. Too little water in the brine tank water softener is not filling. Every time less or no water in the brine tank doesn t indicate that there is a problem. If i push the brine valve.

Remove the brinewell cover and using a flashlight observe fill water entering the tank. I am having an issue with it not wanting to fill my brine tank. The water softener brine tank does not normally fill with water. The first thing you want to check if the brine tank is not refilling is if the water softener is connected to your waterline.

See the parts and pieces of the standard aquatell brine tank that we ship with most of our water softeners. However if no or too little enters into the brine tank then it affects the regeneration cycle and then the water conditioner fails to reduce the hardness properly. I have also just cleaned the brine tank and everything in it. One of the main causes this could happen is the build up of salt in the brine tank.

A paperclip can be used to clean the holes on the small black flow. The way this happens is that water moves through the venturi housing creating a vacuum. However there may be other reasons as well. There is also a tiny screen screen filter which often gets stuck to the large gasket so be careful not to lose it.

If water does not enter the tank look for a nobstructed nozzle venturi fill flow plug brine tubing or brine valve riser pipe. What am i missing. For all knowledge nothing has ever been replaced or fixed on this water softener since 2001. In the brine stage water is sucked from the brine tank through the same tube used to fill the tank.

It draws brine just fine and appears to go through the regen cycles accordingly. When the softener recharges the flow of fresh water is stopped while salty water from the brine tank is sucked into the resin tank where it dissolves the accumulated minerals and is flushed down the drain. 7 water softener not softening.