Presentation; Introduction - Kinetico KUBE Serie Manual De Instrucciones

1. PRESENTATION

The KUBE water teaterment equiment you have pur-
chased is a high performance hydraulic countercurrent
water softener that will provide you and your family eith
high quality softened water.
Lime or water hardness may cause problems in pipes
and affect the proper functioning of the equipment
using that water, thus increasing its maintenance and
reducing its service life. This reality has prompted us
to design this domestic water softening product, which
has been specially conceived to protect the plumbing
installation in your home against scaling effects.
Your KUBE water softener will provide you and your fa-
mily the benefits and advantatges outlined below:
• Energy savings.
• Greater feelings of well-being.
• Increase the life of electrical applicances.
• Cost savings:it reduces the consumption of soap,
fabric softeners and chemicals products.
• Low maintenance cost.
• Automatic control of the equipment.
ATTENTION: it is very important that you read
and keep this manual before the installation and
start-up of the system. If you have any questions re-
garding the use or maintenance of this system please
contact your installer.
1.1. WATER SOFTENER SAFETY
Your safety and that of others is very important. We
have included some safety messages in this manual.
This is the symbol for a saferty alert. This symbol will
warn you abaout possible situations in which you or
those around you could be at risk.
All safety messages will have ther alert symbol or the
word "DANGER" or "ATTENTION".
Scope of this manual:
~ DANGER: Severe or fatal risk if the following instruc-
tions are not immediately followed.
~ ATTENTION: All safety messages provide information
about the possible danger, how to reduce the risk of
injury and what might happen if the instructions are not
followed.
1.2. WHAT TO DO BEFORE
See"Section 5" before installing the water softener.
Carefully follow the instructions (Limited Warranty may
be considered void, if the installation is faulty). Please
read the entire manual before undertaking installation.
Then, collect all necessary materials and tools for the
installation.
Check the plumbing installation: All installations must
comply with the law in force in each region or country.
Please be careful when handling the water softener. Do
not knock it over, let go of it or place it on to sharp ob-
jects. Under no circumstances should the softener be
installed outdoors, since it must be protected against
sunlight and rough enviroment conditions.

2. INTRODUCTION

This system comes with a residual hardness regulator as
standard, this enables the selection of the appropiate
hardness for your home. The simple hydraulic controller
enables quick and easy programming within seconds.
2.1 ¿WHAT IS THE HARDNESS?
Hardness is the quantity of saling salts present in wa-
ter, which are mainly composed of low solubility salts of
calcium and magnesium. The main salts causing hard-
ness are listed below:
Calcium bicarbonate:
Calcium chloride:
calcium sulphate:
Magnesium bicarbonate:
Magnesium chloride:
Magnesium sulphate:
These salts, due to their chemical propierties, have a
tendency to precipitate, producing scale on pipes and
obstructing them as the accumulate.
In the same way, hardness has a high tendency to sca-
le on the electrical resistor from heaters when tem-
perature increase.The combination of hard minerals
and soap produces a soap curdling, which reduces the
cleansing properties of soap.
The precipitation of hard minerals build a layer on coo-
king utensils, connections and plumbing fixtures. It may
even alter the taste of food.
Main problems:
• Precipitation on pipesm fixtures and applicances.
• Increase in energy cinsumption due to generated isolation.
• higher soap consumption.
• reduction of the electrical applicances service life
and icnrease of the maintenance needed.
All these problems are greatly reduced when using a
water softening system.
For the most part of Europe, hardness is indicated in
French hydroponic degrees, but there are also other
measuring units, according to each religion.
The most common measurements to follow.
UNITS
1 ppm de Calcium
1 ppm de Magnesium
1 ppm de CaCO3
1º Francés (ºHF)
1º Alemán (ºd)
1º Inglés (ºe)
1 mmol/L
1 mval/L=meq/L
Ca(CO₃H)₂
CaCl₂
CaSO₄
Mg(CO₃H)₂
MgCl₂
MgSO₄
ppm of CaCO₃ º French
2,5 0,25
4,13 0,413
1 0,1
10 1
17,8
1,78
14,3 1,43
100 10
50 5
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