RO/DI Unit

hey Joe grab this unit, should work great for ya pretty good price too http://www.airwaterice.com/product/1COMPACT/Compact-75-GPD-Reefkeeper-RODI.html

 

Hey Joe,
Members get a 10% discount on AWI products...might be a good time to join up!

--AJ

 

I have the unit snowman linked too and it works great. We just have pretty hard water in my household so I had to add a few extras. If you get one invest into a dual inline tds meter.

 

there isn't a whole lot of difference really between the store stuff cept they seem to have higher TDS than an at home, not sure why though.

the difference in stages is more filtration. you need to test the water you have currently coming from your faucet, if that reads a really high tds and phosphate then you might want to get a 5 stage. there for the longest time i ran a 3 stage. carbon filter, sediment filter and an RO membrane. i recently added a DI filter to mine.

 

Wal-Mart water around here is RO/DI and it runs in the low single digits. Just test the water at work with a TDS meter. If it's good, just use it.

--AJ

 

take free water if you can get it, you'll be paying quite a bit more on your water bill running an RO unit since you get are 3-4 bad gallons per 1 good gallon

 

Joe where do ya work?

 

If it's single digit, I would stick with free as long as you can take the hassle of moving the water around.

--AJ

 

Are you having any problems with algae or anything? That would be one sign that the water is bad.