Clean Water Systems Fleck 7000 Greensand Installation manual

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Fleck 7000 Sediment Filter Installation & Start-Up
Guide
Thank you for purchasing a Clean Water System! With proper installation and a
little routine maintenance your system will be providing neutral pH water for
many years.
Your new system comes with a printed Fleck Service manual, which along with
this start-up guide will help guide you in the installation and start-up of your new
system. The Fleck service manual covers other types of systems as well such as
water softeners and filters, so there may be information in your Fleck service
manual that does not pertain to your system. Please review this start-up guide
entirely before beginning to install your system and follow the steps outlined for best results.
SEDIMENT MEDIA CONTAINS DUST. USE PAPER MASK AND VENTILATE TO AVOID BREATHING DUST.
IMPORTANT: YOU MAY NOT NEED TO ADD ALL THE FILTER MEDIA YOU RECEIVED. THE FILTER TANK
SHOULD NOT BE FILLED MORE THAN 2/3 FULL.
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Table of Contents
Packing List ............................................................................................................................................................ 3
Pre-Installation ...................................................................................................................................................... 4
Best Practices for Piping & Drain Installation........................................................................................................ 4
How Your Sediment Filter Works.......................................................................................................................... 5
Fig 1 ............................................................................................................................................................... 5
Fig 2 ............................................................................................................................................................... 6
Fig 3 ............................................................................................................................................................... 7
Fig 4 ............................................................................................................................................................... 7
Fig 5 ............................................................................................................................................................... 9
Fleck 7000 Metered Flow Sensor Filter System Programming Guide................................................................. 12
User Programming .......................................................................................................................................... 12
Master Programming Mode (for Flow Sensor type) ....................................................................................... 13
Troubleshooting the Fleck 7000 Sediment Filter ................................................................................................ 15
Low Water Pressure ........................................................................................................................................ 15
Does NOT remove sediment ........................................................................................................................... 15
What to Do If Your Filter Tank Does Not Sit Level on the Floor...................................................................... 16
How to Remove the Red Clips from Fleck 7000 Control Valves without Breaking Them............................... 16

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Packing List
Sediment Filter 1.0 cubic foot size
Quantity 1 Fleck 7000 Backwash Control Valve with Bypass Assembly and Pipe connector kit (1”or ¾”)*
Quantity 1 10” x 44” filter tank with distributor tube
Blue media funnel for adding the Chemsorb media
1 cubic foot of Chemsorb media
Sediment Filter 1.5 cubic foot size
Quantity 1 Fleck 7000 Backwash Control Valve with Bypass Assembly and Pipe connector kit (1”or ¾”)*
Quantity 1 10” x 54” filter tank with distributor tube
Blue media funnel for adding the Chemsorb media
1.5 cubic foot of Chemsorb media
Sediment Filter 2.0 cubic foot size
Quantity 1 Fleck 7000 Backwash control Valve with Bypass Assembly and Pipe connector kit (1” or ¾”)*
Quantity 1 12” x 52” filter tank with distributor tube
Blue media funnel for adding the Chemsorb media
2.0 cubic foot of Chemsorb media
Sediment Filter 2.5 cubic foot size
Quantity 1 Fleck 7000 Backwash Control Valve with Bypass Assembly and Pipe connector kit (1”or ¾”)*
Quantity 1 13” x 54” filter tank with distributor tube
Blue media funnel for adding the Chemsorb media
2.5 cubic foot of Chemsorb media
Sediment Filter 3.0 cubic foot size
Quantity 1 Fleck 7000 Backwash Control Valve with Bypass Assembly and Pipe connector kit (1” or ¾”)*
Quantity 1 14” x 65” filter tank with distributor tube
Blue media funnel for adding the Chemsorb media
3.0 cubic foot of Chemsorb media
* We include two extra red clips with the pipe connector kit.

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Pre-Installation
1. Review your packing list and make sure you have received all the parts before beginning installation.
2. If you are going to be turning off the water to the house and you have an electric water heater, shut
off the power to the water heater before beginning installation in case water heater is accidentially
drained.
3. Pick a suitable location for your filter system on a dry level spot where it won’t be exposed to freezing
temperatures. A minimum of 20 PSI is required. Maximum pressure is 90 PSI.
4. Get all of your plumbing parts together before beginning installation. Installation typically takes 3 to
5 hours. However after installation the Sediment Backwash Filter must be allowed to run through a
complete backwash and rinse cycle.
5. After the system is installed and running, your water may be discolored, or full of sediment or rust,
particularly if this is older or corroded piping. Typically this clears up over a day or two.
Best Practices for Piping & Drain Installation
1. See typical installation (see Fig 2). The Sediment Filter is installed after the pressure tank.
2. Make sure to follow to connect the in pipe to the Fleck 7000 inlet and the outlet to the outlet (see Fig
2). As you face the Fleck 7000 control from the front, the water enters on the right and exits on the
left. From the back (see Fig 2) the water enters on the left. The inlet and outlet are attached to the
bypass valve which is marked with arrows as well.
3. Make sure there is a working gate or ball valve before the Fleck 7000 Sediment Filter and also one
after as shown in the diagram Fig 2. The pressure gauges are optional and perhaps not necessary but
a hose bib (which is a faucet that you can attach a garden hose to) is strongly recommended after the
Sediment Filter before the second ball valve. This makes it easy to rinse your new Sediment Filter on
start-up and gives you a place to test the water before it enters your household plumbing.
4. If you will be using copper piping, do not sweat the copper pipe directly on to the Fleck 7000 control
valve. Avoid heating up the Fleck 7000 control valve plastic with the torch.
5. You do not need unions to install your Fleck 7000 control. If you need to remove it, the Fleck 7000
has quick-release couplings that make it easy to put the Sediment Sediment Filter on by-pass and
remove the filter system from the piping.
6. The drain line tubing (not supplied) is connected to a drain from the drain outlet using flexible ½” ID
tubing. Note that the drain can run up above the Fleck 7000 control and into a drain, it does not
have to drain down, as the filter backwashes under line pressure from your well pump. Most
plumbing codes require an air-gap connection, so that if your sewer or septic tank backs up, it cannot
cross connect with the drain tubing.

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How Your Sediment Filter Works
See Fig 1. In your Sediment Filter the water enters the top of the tank and flows down through the media and
up the distributor tube. The downflow type Sediment Filter removes sediment and can be backwashed,
which cleans and re-classifies the Sediment, preventing channeling. During backwash, the water flow is
reversed and water flows down the distributor tube and up through the media, lifting and expanding the
Sediment media. During the backwash the Sediment is cleaned by the action of the water flowing through it.
Fig 1: Sediment Filter Tank
Free space allows Chemsorb media
can expand during backwash
Distributor tube
Chemsorb media
Filter distributor bottom
screen (built-in to tank)

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Fig 2:Typical Sediment Filter Fleck 7000 piping installation with ball valve and hose bib after the filter

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Fig 3: Fleck 7000 from the rear showing the inlet and outlet end-connector fittings 1” or 1-1/4” NPT in Noryl
plastic. Brass end-connectors are also available for connecting to copper tubing.
Fig 4:Fleck 7000 side view

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Assembly and Installation Instructions
1. Unscrew by hand the entire Fleck 7000 control valve from top of tank if it was shipped screwed on.
Place distributor tube in tank if not already inside tank. If not already done, make sure blue cap is on
top of distributor tube, or wrap the top of distributor tube with electrical or duct tape. You do not
want Sediment to go down the distributor tube.
2. Note –if you purchased a 3.0 CF system, your system will come with gravel which must be added to
the tank first, before adding the media. If you have a smaller tank proceed with filling the tank with
the Chemsorb filter media. The tank should be 2/3 to 3/4 full.
3. Remove cap or tape from top of distributor tube. Be careful not to pull up distributor tube when
removing cap or tape.
4. If possible at this point, fill tank completely with water. This will allow the Sediment Filter media to
settle and eliminate the need of “purging” the air out of the tank later.
5. Screw on Fleck 7000 control valve carefully. Do not use pipe-joint compound, Teflon tape, or Vaseline
or other petroleum greases to lubricate tank threads.
6. See how the Fleck by-pass is connected (below). Note that Items 2 in Fig 3 below are the pipe
connectors and the other end is what gets attached to the control valve. Items 3 are the red clips
that hold the pipe connectors to the by-pass valve - we include two extra red clips with the pipe
connector kit. Your Fleck 7000 is usually shipped in the by-pass position.

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Fig 5: Fleck 7000 By-Pass (1) and Pipe Connectors (2)
7. Lubricate the by-pass valve o-rings with some vegetable oil or silicone grease and connect the bypass
assembly to the Fleck 7000 control by sliding the bypass valve firmly into the body of the Fleck 7000.
Once bypass is in far enough, you will be able to insert the red connector clips.
8. Next lubricate the end-connectors (#2 in Fig 3) with some silicone grease or vegetable cooking oil and
insert them into the bypass valve and then insert the red clips (#3).
9. Note that the Fleck 7000 is usually shipped in the bypass position. There is a bypass valve knob on
both the inlet and the outlet (Fig 3 #1). You can easily tell if it is in bypass because the two holes on
the bypass knob will be in the vertical position. If the valve is in the Service position (by which is the
filtering position or ‘in service’ position) the holes will be in the horizontal position. Make sure both
sides are in the by-pass position.

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10. Do NOT remove the red clips in order to put the bypass valve in either bypass or service, it is not
necessary nor desired to remove the red clips on the bypass valve hand knobs (see Fig 3 item 1, which
are the knobs you will turn to move the bypass valves).
11. Now install your water pipes to the Fleck 7000 bypass end connectors. Make sure inlet is installed to
the 'In" pipe connector on the bypass valve and outlet is on the “Out” connector. Note: Arrows on
bypass valve should be visible from the top of the bypass valve.
12. Connect some flexible tubing from the drain connection on the Fleck 7000 control valve to a suitable
drain such as a septic tank or drain to a sewer. It is OK to run the drain line up and over the Fleck
7000 Sediment Filter up to 4 feet above the top of the tank. If the drain line will be more than 20
feet, use larger diameter tubing such as ¾” or 1”. Note that it is desirable to be able to run the drain
line into a bucket in order to test the backwash flow rate in the future. This is why hard piping the
drain line is discouraged, however, if you do use hard PVC piping for the drain line, and you are able
to remove the hard PVC drain piping and attach flexible tubing should you ever desire for testing
purposes, it is OK to use rigid PVC pipe for the drain. Make sure the drain tubing is firmly clamped to
the barbed fitting with a hose clamp to prevent leaks.
13. For the 2.0 and 2.5 cubic foot systems only: these larger tank systems have an external stainless
steel flow control that comes with the system. This must be installed. If you have a 1.0 or 1.5 cubic
foot system, the flow control is internal and there is no external drain flow control.
Stainless Steel Flow Control (2.0 and 2.5 Cubic Foot Systems Only)
14. Plug in your Fleck 7000 control valve to an outlet. Your Sediment Filter 7000 control valve is already
pre-programmed*. All you need to do is to set the time of day, and then set the number of days the
Sediment Filter will run before it backwashes and regenerates automatically. The default number of
days between back wash is seven.
*If you purchased a metered 7000 valve, please see page twelve for programming instructions.
15. Press and hold either the Up or Down buttons until the programming icon replaces the service icon
and the parameter display reads TD. Set the time of day by pressing the up or down arrows until it is
the current time of day. When the desired time is set, press the Extra Cycle button to resume normal
operation, or wait 5 seconds and the unit will return to normal operation if no button is pressed.