GCTek AquaBead User manual

AquaBead Instructions
Congratulations
on your new AquaBead Filter
You have made a wise choice in choosing the AquaBead filter. Your filter was carefully thought out
and designed to give you many years of faithful, worry free service. Some of the care and planning of your
filter is self evident in even the small things, such as the Lifetime Warranty on the tank itself. The tanks are
made of the ultimate filter vessel material, fiberglass. This is a higher quality tank than the typical plastic
tank used on many filters.
Your clear spring check valve for the AquaBead bead Agitator is designed so in time (normally
many, many years) when the check valve goes out you can simply unscrew the union and replace just the
valve seat itself in just a few minutes.
Your Multiport valve was carefully chosen to be the least restrictive backwash valve on the market
to give maximum flows for the least energy dollars. The internals were carefully designed with maximum
flows in mind to give further energy savings, by allowing you to use the most energy efficient pumps on the
market.
The AquaBead Life Support System allows you to hook up a koi pond air pump to the supplied
fitting on the front of the multiport valve and supply life giving oxygen to the filter bacteria during times of
medical bypass or pump failure.
The AquaBead Bead Agitator is a high quality air blower that injects huge amounts of air into the
vessel prior to backwash, this breaks up the bead pack which allows for a very thorough backwash.
Rest assured that quality was the main consideration when your
AquaBead filter was designed and assembled.
Getting to know your
AquaBead filter
Taking a few minutes to get to know the
different components of your
AquaBead will assure that you are using
it to it’s maximum potential.
Assembly of your
AquaBead
AquaBead
Spring check valve
AquaBead
Tank
5. Open Tank enclo-
sure. Unscrew the
black Omni-
fuser at the
top inside of
the tank.
Cover
exposed
pipe with
rag or tape.
Pour MEDIA
into filter.
Reattach
Omnifuser.
Replace
Tank enclo-
sure cap
and tighten
black ring.
If you have any questions on your filter feel free
to give us a call and we’ll be glad to help.
AquaBead
Multiport Valve
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Pressure gauge
AquaBead
“ALISS”
AquaBead
Life Support
System
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Water drain
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Tank enclosure
opening
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Air release valve
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Media Agitator
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Agitator Slide valve
AquaBead
Sight Glass
2. Hand tighten
Multiport valve to
the tank. It just slips
into position and
hand tightens with
no solvent gluing.
NOTE: top fitting is
hidden in this pic-
ture.
3. Thread the
“ALISS” into place
on the front of the
Multiport valve
(Use thread tape on
threads)
4. Set the MEDIA
AGITATOR in place
on top of the spring
check valve/Slide
valve. You may use
a set screw to attach
it to the pipe if
desired. Do not use
glue to attach.
6. Thread the
Pressure Gauge into
place.
(Use thread tape on
threads)
1. Tighten Water
Drain being careful
to not over tighten.

AquaBead
Life Support System
Your AquaBead filter addresses the age old problem of
“how do I keep my beneficial bacteria from dying when I
have to do a medical bypass or I experience pump
failure?”
Easy and simple. Just run a line from your koi pond
air pump and attach it to the barbed fitting on the front of
the multiport valve. Set the Multiport valve to the “RINSE”
setting prior to turning on the air pump. Turn on the air
pump and the oxygen supplied by the air pump will keep
the bacteria happy and safe for several days if necessary.
Remember, never run the water pump at the same time that
you are running your air pump. It will cause damage to the
air pump.
Winterizing the AquaBead
1. Turn pump off and drain water from pump basket and volute.
2. Open water drain on filter. No media will come out, only wa-
ter. Make sure all water is out of filter or damage will occur
not covered by warranty.
3. Loosen the Multiport valve from the housing and back the
valve away from the tank to release any water in the valve.
4. Now just wait for Spring.
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Backwashing the
AquaBead filter
1. Turn off water pump. Move Multiport valve to “RINSE”. See NOTE
above. Open Slide Valve(pull outward). Turn on AquaBead Agitator.
Run and cycle Agitator with 20 second on and 5 second off cycles for 5
or 6 cycles. Turn off Agitator. Close Slide Valve(Push inward) shown
above.
2. While still in the “RINSE” mode, turn water pump on and run until
water starts to go out the waste line and then stop water pump.
3. Move Multiport valve to “BACKWASH” position, start water pump
and run until water is clear in sight glass. Usually 1-3 minutes. Stop
pump.
4. Move Multiport valve to the “RINSE” position, restart pump and run
until water is clear in sight glass. Stop water pump.
5. Move Multiport valve to the “FILTER” position and restart the water
pump. You’re done, it’s that simple.
Your AquaBead filter was designed to get rid of the solids when back-
washed thus providing you with a more efficient filter and fewer back-
washings being needed.
Other settings on your dial are the following:
Waste: Bypasses the filter and sends water to waste.
Recirculate: Bypasses the filter and sends water back to
the pond.
Closed: keeps water from going through filter.
AquaBead
Plumbing hook up assembly
Make plumbing hook ups as shown in
the picture. Use 2” pipe to connect to
unions to secure plumbing to valve.
Waste line hook up.
Note: opening on
left side of valve.
ALISS
Valve
NOTE: New for 2018
Before proceding to the steps be-
low perform this step.
Turn and pull the handle out be-
fore turning on Agitator.
Immediately following the Agita-
tion cycle close the valve before
completing Backwashing cycle.
Water line from the
pump.
(Upper opening)
Return line back to
pond.
(Lower opening)