r/o unit....is this a good one?

sneaks03

sneaks03

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Yup not convinced that would be worth the money you spend or save. I am with Al check out some of our sponsors.
 
BigAl07

BigAl07

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Ditto to sneaks!

RO/DI, Skimmer, Lights are key areas you want to "invest". Many times you get what you pay for. Maybe initially you get a good "price" on the equipment but top-notch customer service AFTER the sale means a TON to me. It's useless to get a good "Deal" on something up front and then when you have a problem it cost more to repair it or worse be unable to get HELP from the seller.
 
nightfire76

nightfire76

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sneaks03

sneaks03

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Chlorine and Chlorimines have to be filtered differently. So if your water company treats water with both or chlorimines your going to have to have the correct filter cartridge.
 
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BobBursek

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Anything Jim sells at The Filters Guys is good and the customer service is great, give him a call about the chlorine up grade and talk to him about it.
 
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BobBursek

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Nightfire76,
If you are not on a private well, Jim at the Filter Guys can pull up your manciple water specs, and tell you all you need to know about your water and filter needs.
 
BigAl07

BigAl07

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Fire Water & Ice are EXCELLENT at support and replied to my email (today) in less than 1 hour.
 
dngspot

dngspot

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I used a cheep RO/DI, I bought from Ebay. The problem with this is it was not quite what it was advertized as. It came with a GE Desal membrane, which did a pretty good job. It rejected 98%. The filters did a good job also. The problem was the cheep horizontal DI canister. I do not know what was in that thing but it was not what I would call DI resin. When I attempted to regenerate it, the resin changed the solution red and the resin never separated. My solution was to add two 10 inch canisters to the system. Also since I like to fiddle with stuff like this I added another membrane and turned it into a 200 gpd unit. Being a control freak I had to install gauges and dual TDS meters.

The system looks nothing like it did when I bought it and I have about 250.00 in it.

Here it is.

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The board above it is a timed flush to remove TDS before the DI resin. It also houses the solenoid for my auto top off.

This is what it looked like when I got it.

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The only lesson is, you do not have to unload your wallet at one time. You can improve it over time. If you do get this type of RO/DI from Ebay do not count on the DI to be what it is said to be.
 
BigAl07

BigAl07

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dngspot said:
This is what it looked like when I got it.

5stage_rodi.JPG


The only lesson is, you do not have to unload your wallet at one time. You can improve it over time. If you do get this type of RO/DI from Ebay do not count on the DI to be what it is said to be.
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Couldn't you just clean the DI canister out and start from scratch? Or just replace the "Canister" itself?


I gotta say WOW! Looks like you have a nice set-up there now :)
 
dngspot

dngspot

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I get about 3 months from each regeneration that I do to the DI. If I used the little guy that it came with I would be recharging every week.

I forgot to mention that that system is about 3 years old; I changed the membranes to Filmtech 75gpd. Now my system is pushing 150 gpd.
 
nightfire76

nightfire76

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i dont need but maybe at most 75 gpd and i have to say when it comes to ro/di....i know next to nothing,i understand more or less how it works,meaning water passing through so many filter types to clean it up but thats bout it
 
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