Ro Recommendations And Tds Meters

Nonuser

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So whats the best units?

I have a 5 stage unit that has to be over 5 years old that I have no used in at least 4 years. It should still be good right , just the filters would need replacing no?

I live in the Getto's of Brantford and I stumbled across a deal for 200 Bottle refills for $110 and I'm only down to 166 so I think I will be a water boy for a while. too bad I don't live in an area like London where you can go to the local fish store and pick up a bottle of premixed RO
 
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Nighthawk26

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If the unit is dried out, you need to change the membrane, as well as the filters. I'm in KW, and the Chloramines are really bad so I upgraded to a 6 stage with dual carbon and dual DI. I was tearing through DI resin before the change. You can either get a new unit with TDS inline, or you can even just buy the inline TDS meters and add them to what you have. Just make sure you get at least a dual, if not triple meter so you can measure different inputs and outputs.
 
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Max water supply in Brooklyn I think it is? Decent Canadian supplier, lots of product online to look at. Reefsupplies and unibob also have some stuff. But yes replace all your filters, and ro membrane, brantford has very high tds so you might want to look at extra pre filters to help keep cost down. Cheaper to replace a paper filter then it is an ro membrane. If you are looking at a new unit, look for one with a pump, and an automatic flush. I have the vertex version but I know max water sell one very similar.
 
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Nighthawk26 said:
If the unit is dried out, you need to change the membrane, as well as the filters. I'm in KW, and the Chloramines are really bad so I upgraded to a 6 stage with dual carbon and dual DI. I was tearing through DI resin before the change. You can either get a new unit with TDS inline, or you can even just buy the inline TDS meters and add them to what you have. Just make sure you get at least a dual, if not triple meter so you can measure different inputs and outputs.
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I was wondering if everyone went through DI resin this quickly... I have a BRS 5 stage, with 5 micron carbon and 1 micron carbon... Only a single DI stage. Getting two DI stages won't change the rate of it's consumption though right? Only ensure full removal of chloramines and lengthen interval of changes? Anything else I could do to improve the situation?
 
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I have the vertex with 4 filters including the RO membrane. I live in Hamilton and we have pretty low TDS compared to other places.

I just changed out my RO filter, after more than 2 years and an awful lot of water.

I believe prevention is the best cure lol
 
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well the place I get mine from has a 20*20 room with a ton of equipment in there doing lord knows what, so i am assuming its doing a pretty fair job. I guess I just need a TDS meter. I'm going to the gym to get swole so I can carry all the water. The ladies at the place must think I bath in it ;)
 
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ALowe said:
Get a barracuda
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I was off the coast of Florida and saw a group of them in the water less than 10 feet from me. I got out of the water. have you ever saw the teeth on them?

Oh the name of an RO/DI System

http://www.aquariumwaterfilters.com/The-Barracuda-Reverse-Osmosis-RO-DI-p.bar.htm
 
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Nighthawk26

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Quartapound said:
I was wondering if everyone went through DI resin this quickly... I have a BRS 5 stage, with 5 micron carbon and 1 micron carbon... Only a single DI stage. Getting two DI stages won't change the rate of it's consumption though right? Only ensure full removal of chloramines and lengthen interval of changes? Anything else I could do to improve the situation?
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It really depends if you have Chloramines or not. They change everything. Adding the second DI does have benefit cause the first one will show 3-5pp before the second shows 1. You then discard the first, and move the second to the first spot and get a hell of a lot more use out of it. I've also now bought and will try a different carbon for the first stage of carbon, and a different chloramine carbon for the second. It's from BRS. Its an actual granular carbon. It's sold specifically to help with heavy chloramine water sources. Also, don't use colour changing DI. It doesn't last as long.
 
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I can hook you up with a 1,000 gpd unit. Just make sure you know when to turn it off, or you'll have wet feet.

My suggestion is to put at least 2 carbon filters ahead of your membrane( sediment first then carbons). You can always add a post carbon filter to the product line.
 
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