Hi @oranjeboom, Hope your watersoftener is working perfectly.
Considering the very experienced subscribers of this thread, I would also bring up a issue I have with my softener.
I have bought a used Harveys 2 cylinder non electric watersoftener, installed it myself on my previous property, and it worked for 2 weeks. Similar to what @Flagooner has described, it worked ok for 2 weeks, and then started sending all the water through the drain. Found it weird, and did a manual regeneration, which worked for a a few days. Then it all started again, sending the water straight to the drain. It has been off since. Couldn't never find the reason why it fails after a few working days. My wife keeps telling me it must be something wrong with the resin, but obviously I'm not a specialist, so I haven't tried to open it yet.
Now I'm wondering if I should try to fix it, given that water is quite hard at the new property I have moved into and it's already creating loads of stains on all the taps and shower.