Thanks JFN!
You have helped me understand the chemistry of water softeners, and I understand that in a perfect world there is no salt; however, Brain's experience says there may be some residual salt. I'd guess that *may* be because of under-replenishment of the resin. I've also read that if you push your water softener to the edge, it uses much more salt. So I've set mine to replenish a bit early [set it to 24 when I should set it to 21], and I also have it replenish a night early if it gets within 10% of needing to be recycled. So... in theory this will also minimize or maybe eliminate the addition of salt. So far, if there is salt in the softened water, it has not been enough to register on my Taylor test.
Anyway, thanks for the chemistry lesson.
You have helped me understand the chemistry of water softeners, and I understand that in a perfect world there is no salt; however, Brain's experience says there may be some residual salt. I'd guess that *may* be because of under-replenishment of the resin. I've also read that if you push your water softener to the edge, it uses much more salt. So I've set mine to replenish a bit early [set it to 24 when I should set it to 21], and I also have it replenish a night early if it gets within 10% of needing to be recycled. So... in theory this will also minimize or maybe eliminate the addition of salt. So far, if there is salt in the softened water, it has not been enough to register on my Taylor test.
Anyway, thanks for the chemistry lesson.