Clean Water Systems Pro?OX 2510 How to use

Pro‐OX 2510 Manual Backwash Iron Filter
Installaon & Start‐Up Guide
Thank you for purchasing a Clean Water System! With proper installaon and a lile
roune maintenance your system will be providing iron water for many years.
Please review this start-up guide enrely before beginning to install your system, and
follow the steps outlined for best results.
PRO-OX MEDIA CONTAINS DUST.
USE PAPER MASK AND VENTILATE AREA TO AVOID BREATHING DUST DURING
INSTALLATION
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Table of Contents
Packing List........................................................................................................................................................ 3
Pre-Installaon.................................................................................................................................................. 4
Best Pracces for Piping & Drain Installaon ................................................................................................... 4
How Your Iron Filter Works .............................................................................................................................. 5
Fig. 1—Pro-OX iron Filter Diagram........................................................................................................ 5
Fig. 2—Typical Pro-OX Iron Filter Installaon....................................................................................... 6
Fig. 3—Fleck 2510 Control Valve and Bypass Valve Rear View ............................................................ 7
Fig. 4—Fleck 2510 Control Valve and Bypass Valve Rear Side View .................................................... 7
Assembly and Installaon Instrucons ............................................................................................................. 8
Troubleshoong the Pro-OX 2510 Iron Filter ................................................................................................... 9
Low Water Pressure.............................................................................................................................. 9
Filter Tank Does Not Sit Level on the Floor ........................................................................................ 10

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Packing List
1.0 Cubic Foot System
Quanty Descripon
1 Fleck 2510 manual backwash control valve and bypass valve
1 Pipe connector kit (1” or 3/4”)
1 Enpress filter tank with distributor tube
1 Media funnel
1 12 lbs. gravel
2 1/2 cubic foot boxes of Pro-OX filter media
1.5 Cubic Foot System
Quanty Descripon
1 Fleck 2510 manual backwash control valve and bypass valve
1 Pipe connector kit (1” or 3/4”)
1 Enpress filter tank with distributor tube
1 Media funnel
1 16 lbs. gravel
3 1/2 cubic foot boxes of Pro-OX filter media
2.5 Cubic Foot System
Quanty Descripon
1 Fleck 2510 manual backwash control valve and bypass valve
1 Pipe connector kit (1” or 3/4”)
1 Enpress filter tank with distributor tube
1 Media funnel
1 20 lbs. gravel
5 1/2 cubic foot boxes of Pro-OX filter media

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Pre‐Installaon
1. Review your packing list and make sure you have received all the parts before beginning installaon.
2. If you are going to be turning offthe water to the house and you have an electric water heater, shut off
the power to the water heater before beginning installaon in case water heater is accidentally drained.
3. Pick a suitable locaon 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 installaon. Installaon typically takes 3 to 5
hours. However aer installaon the iron filter must be allowed to run through a complete backwash and
rinse cycle (also called "regeneraon"). You don’t have to be present for this first backwash necessarily,
but it does take 90 minutes.
5. Aer the system is installed and running, your water may be discolored, or full of sediment or rust, parc-
ularly if this is older piping that has been exposed to iron or manganese for some me. Typically this
clears up over a day or two, but can persist for weeks if the pipe is old, galvanized iron pipe that has been
corroded.
Best Pracces for Piping & Drain Installaon
1. See typical installaon (see Fig. 2, page 6). The iron filter is installed aer the pressure tank.
2. Make sure to connect the inlet pipe to the Fleck 2510 control valve inlet and the outlet to the outlet (see
Fig. 3, page 7). Water enters on the right and exits on the lewhen facing the control valve from the
front. From the back (Fig. 3) the water enters on the le. The inlet and outlet are aached to the bypass
valve which is marked with arrows as well.
3. Make sure there is a working gate or ball valve before the filter and also one aer as shown in Fig. 2 on
page 6. The pressure gauges are oponal and not necessary but a hose bib (which is a faucet that you can
aach a garden hose to) is strongly recommended aer the filter before the second ball valve. This makes
it easy to rinse your new 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 control valve. Avoid
heang up the control valve plasc with the torch.
5. You do not need unions to install your Fleck 2510control valve. If you need to remove it, the valve has
quick-release couplings that make it easy to put the filter on bypass and remove it from your piping.
6. The drain line tubing (not supplied) is connected to a drain from the rain outlet using flexible 1/2” ID tub-
ing. Note that the drain line can run up above the control valve and into a drain—it does not need to
drain down, as the filter backwashes under line pressure from your well pump. Most plumbing codes re-
quire an air-gap connecon, so that if your sewer or sepc tank backs up it cannot cross-connect with the
drain tubing.

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How Your Iron Filter Works
See Fig. 1. Water enters the top of your Pro-OX iron filter tank and flows down through the media and up the
distributor tube. Iron and manganese in the water turns to an oxidized parcle upon contact with the media and
is trapped in the media. During backwash, the water flow is reversed and water flows down the distributor tube
and up through the media, liing and expanding the Pro-OX filter media, and removing all the iron and rust
trapped in the filter. Aer the backwash stage, potassium permanganate soluon is automacally drawn in from
the potassium permanganate soluon tank and slowly rinsed through the Pro-OX filter for 1 hour, aer which
the Pro-OX media is thoroughly rinsed-to-drain. This enre automac process, called “regeneraon” takes about
90 minutes. Typically the Pro-OX filter is set to regenerate every 3 to 7 days, during the middle of the night when
no water is being used.
Fig. 1—Pro‐OX Iron Filter Flow Diagram

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Fig. 2—Typical Pro‐OX Iron Filter Installaon

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Fig. 3—Fleck 2510 control valve and bypass valve rear view
Fig. 4—Fleck 2510 control valve and bypass valve rear side view
Drain Line
Inlet Outlet
Bypass Knobs
Bypass Connectors

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Assembly and Installaon Instrucons
1. Unscrew the Fleck 2510 control valve from the top of the tank if it came screwed on. Place distributor
tube inside tank if it is not already. Make sure the tube is capped with the blue cap that came with your
system to prevent filter media from entering the tube. If your cap is missing, use tape to cover the tube.
2. Next add Pro-OX filter media unl the tank is about 2/3 full of media.
3. Remove cap or tape from top of the distributor tube. Be careful not to pull up on distributor tube when
removing cap or tape.
4. If possible at this point, fill tank completely with water. This will allow the Pro-OX media to sele and
eliminate the need to purge air from the tank later.
5. Carefully screw on the 2510 control valve. Do not use pipe-joint compound, Teflon tape, Vaseline, or oth-
er petroleum greases to lubricate tank threads.
6. See how the bypass valve is connected in Fig. 4 (page 7). Lubricate bypass valve o-rings with some vegeta-
ble oil or silicone grease and connect the bypass assembly to the Fleck 2510 control valve by sliding the
bypass valve firmly into its body. Once it is in far enough, you will be able to ghten the metal connecng
clamps.
7. Next lubricate the end-connectors (labeled “inlet” and “outlet” in Fig. 3) and insert them into the bypass
valve.
8. Make sure your valve is in bypass posion. You will know when it is in bypass because the two knobs will
be parallel to each other; when the valve is in service posion the valves will form one connuous hori-
zontal line.
9. Now install your water pipes to the 2510 bypass end connectors. Make sure inlet is installed to the IN
pipe connector and the outlet to the OUT connector. The bypass valve should be marked with arrows to
help you easily idenfy the inlet/outlet.
Plug or tape top of distributor tube to pre‐
vent media from entering. Remove when
finished.
Use included
funnel to add
media.

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10. Connect some flexible drain tubing from the drain connecon on the control valve (pictured in Fig. 3 on
page 7) to a suitable drain such as a sepc tank or sewer. It is ok to run the drain line up and over the fil-
ter, up to 4 feet above the tank. If the drain line will be longer than 20 feet, use larger tubing such as
3/4” or 1”. Note that it is desirable to be able to run the drain line into a bucket in order to test the back-
wash flow rate in the future. This is why hard piping the drain line is discouraged. However, you may use
hard PVC piping for the drain line if you are able to remove it and aach flexible tubing should you ever
desire for tesng purposes. Make sure the drain tubing is firmly clamped to the barbed fing with a hose
clamp to prevent leaks.
11. 2.0 and 2.5 cubic foot 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 cu. . system, the flow control is internal and requires no
installaon.
12. Now you must run a manual backwash and rinse cycle before using your filter system. Move lever on the
face of your control valve into “Backwash” posion and let the water run through the drain line unl it
appears clear. This can take about 10—20 minutes. Then, move the lever to the “Rapid Rinse” posion
for about 5 minutes. Once this rinse cycle is complete, your iron filter is ready for operaon! Remember
this process, as you’ll have to repeat it whenever you add more media in the future.
13. Refer to your Fleck 2510 service manual for more informaon about your control valve if desired.
Troubleshoong the Pro‐OX 2510 Iron Filter
Low Water Pressure
Measure the backwash flow rate by pung the system into a backwash mode and pung the drain tube into
a 5 gallon bucket and ming the flow rate. A 0.75 cubic foot system should flow at 5 gallons in one minute,
so the 5 gallon bucket should fill in one minute. The 1.0 cubic foot system should flow at 7 GPM during back-
wash.

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Filter Tank Does Not Sit Level on the Floor
Your black filter tank base is not glued to the boom of your tank. Occasionally tank bases will become
crooked during shipment. If you find that that your tank does not sit level on the floor, you can easily adjust
it by holding the empty tank and rapping it on a concrete or solid floor once or twice in order to level it.

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