RO/DI Quiestion

[webos]

Hello RC

I just bought a RO/DI system and it came on friday and i'm grinning ear to ear no more tap water :dance:. After installing it I was thinking about my Water Softener that i'm thinking of putting in a couple of weeks. I didn't know if the softener would cause any problem with the ro/di or would it help it any. I could setup the ro system in my garage but i would like to keep my fish stuff in the house if i can the garage is just a bloody mess right now.


Dan

[rayn]

I run mine after the water softner. I will help pull out some of the impurities in the water.
Make sure you are running enough pressure through your RO/DI. If not you will burn through the DI resin. I went through a canister in about 60 gallons. With a booster pump I'm still on my second canister after about 100 gallons.

[PurdueWaterGuy]

Softeners replace scale forming minerals like calcium with non-scaling sodium - there's a lot of concentration of ions at the membranes surface, by removing those nasty scale forming ions you protect the RO membrane from deposits on the surface.

Make sense?

[webos]

Make sure you are running enough pressure through your RO/DI. If not you will burn through the DI resin. I went through a canister in about 60 gallons. With a booster pump I'm still on my second canister after about 100 gallons.

I have a pressure gauge where i'm going to put my water softener and it right after the main shut off to the whole house and it shows around 75psi. My ro/di has a gauge on it but i'm missing some parts to hook it up to my supply. Should I look into a booster pump for it or would 75 be enough for it??

Thanks

[rayn]

75 should be plenty. I believe they recommended around 60 - 65. I was running 35, and it would just burn through the di. I had a used canister of di, added the booster, and now am still running the 'used' di with only 2 tds for about a month. Did you get a handheld and or dual line tds meter?

[webos]

I don't have one just yet, that will be coming soon, kinda limited on money right now.

[rayn]

Try and find a used one or check eBay. I got my handheld for ten bucks.