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10/19/2019, 04:53 PM | #1 |
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RO/DI and TDS?
My source is a whopping 673 tds and recently it seems my town using more chlorine or something as it smells like bleach when I take a shower or bath. Should I be concerned?
My RO/DI I use the following scheme Sediment 1st stage; Chloromine Block 2nd stage; 3rd stage Carbon Block; 4th Stage 75gpd Membrane; 5th stage DI.. Now my TDS before going to DI is 19; I am thinking maybe I need another DI.. 19 is high going to DI correct? |
10/19/2019, 05:14 PM | #2 |
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19/673= good 97% efficient. If you an actually smell the chlorine in the tap water, I'd keep a very close eye on the carbon blocks....probably change them out more often then most of us do....there are test kits you can buy from brs to check the total chlorine of your discharge water....
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10/19/2019, 05:17 PM | #3 |
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Yea I can smell it.. so which block just the carbon not chlromine block? What test kits?
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10/19/2019, 06:47 PM | #4 |
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If they are not using chloramines to treat your water and just use chlorine you could actually run two carbon blocks and take out the chloramine block and they would probably last a little longer .
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10/19/2019, 08:48 PM | #6 | |
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As stated you might want to look into getting a chlorine test kit. You could also look into getting a carbon block that is made to take out higher amounts of chlorine if you think that is an issue. Chloramines will not hurt your ro membrane but they will exhaust your di quicker. You may also want to look into getting a 99% rejection rate ro membrane such as the spectrapure. I have the spectrapure and my 450 tap is taken down to 3 or 4 before the di. |
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10/21/2019, 05:57 PM | #7 |
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10/21/2019, 08:55 PM | #9 |
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before ro. you can use it on your exhaust water that goes down the drain....that's the same as before ro....you can also use it on the flush water if you have a flush hooked up
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10/27/2019, 07:34 AM | #10 |
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They do use chloramines where I live in South FL so I do use two carbon blocks after the sediment filter and my DI resin last for a pretty decent time . It doesnt exhaust very quickly and I always have 0 TDS and when not I change the DI resin but I do not have to do that too often !
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10/27/2019, 11:36 AM | #11 |
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Speactrpure has a help tab on their website and you can fill in the blanks and they will get back to you on their recommendations, I just did it.
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