I'm looking at running an ato system direct from my home plumbing. I need a good ro/Di filter. I've read up on them but can someone help me understand what exactly I want this system to do? Is it metals chlorine phosphate and???? I'm a little confused. It's a lot of reading and I'm not the best a reading and interpreting sometimes....
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Usually you'll have a sediment, carbon, membrane, and DI stage. The sediment filter takes care of physical "large" impurities. The carbon removes unwanted chemicals like chorine. The RO membrane is what filters out small impurities and is where you'll see the bulk of the TDS(Total Dissolved Solids) removed from the water. The DI stage traps charged particles and is what gets you that last little way to 0 TDS. If you have good water coming in, say your tap is less than 100 TDS, then your DI resin will usually last a while. If you have very high TDS like 300-400 or more, than you'll exhaust your resin at a comparably faster rate.
Hope that basic explanation works. As for a good filter? Air Water Ice is a sponsor so you might want to take a look at their setups.
Edit: Usually you'll have a sediment, carbon, membrane, and DI stage. The sediment filter takes care of physical "large" impurities. The carbon removes unwanted chemicals like chorine. The RO membrane is what filters out small impurities and is where you'll see the bulk of the TDS(Total Dissolved Solids) removed from the water. The DI stage traps charged particles and is what gets you that last little way to 0 TDS. If you have good water coming in, say your tap is less than 100 TDS, then your DI resin will usually last a while. If you have very high TDS like 300-400 or more, than you'll exhaust your resin at a comparably faster rate.
Hope that basic explanation works. As for a good filter? Air Water Ice is a sponsor so you might want to take a look at their setups.
Hope that basic explanation works. As for a good filter? Air Water Ice is a sponsor so you might want to take a look at their setups.
Edit: Usually you'll have a sediment, carbon, membrane, and DI stage. The sediment filter takes care of physical "large" impurities. The carbon removes unwanted chemicals like chorine. The RO membrane is what filters out small impurities and is where you'll see the bulk of the TDS(Total Dissolved Solids) removed from the water. The DI stage traps charged particles and is what gets you that last little way to 0 TDS. If you have good water coming in, say your tap is less than 100 TDS, then your DI resin will usually last a while. If you have very high TDS like 300-400 or more, than you'll exhaust your resin at a comparably faster rate.
Hope that basic explanation works. As for a good filter? Air Water Ice is a sponsor so you might want to take a look at their setups.
I would suggest watching the following video series that Bulk Reef Supply has developed on RO/DI systems:
http://www.bulkreefsupply.com/video/series/view/rodi-series">http://www.bulkreefsupply.com/video/series/view/rodi-series</a>
I feel that they have a lot of great videos for beginners to watch that provide a good bit of information.
You can always come and ask here if you need more information.:up:
Edit: Videos are a great way to learn, just be skeptical of whatever they might be trying to sell in the video.
http://www.bulkreefsupply.com/video/series/view/rodi-series">http://www.bulkreefsupply.com/video/series/view/rodi-series</a>
I feel that they have a lot of great videos for beginners to watch that provide a good bit of information.
You can always come and ask here if you need more information.:up:
Edit: Videos are a great way to learn, just be skeptical of whatever they might be trying to sell in the video.
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its a great idea to have an ro/di system for your ato but its a terrible idea to hook it directly to the tank if something happens and the line gets stuck open you could flood your house, drop the salinity insanely fast which could kill your live stock and also the water coming in would be cold which would drop your tank temp (probably wouldn't be much in summer but right now it would be killer) its just not worth the risk for the small convenience of not having to refill an ato container
I was more or less going to have the ato container be fill by a pipe running from the rodi. The actual system would be ran into my pre mixing can. I have a 55 Gallon plastic trashcan I'm using to premix water. The tube running to the ato container will have 2 gate valves in between. Just as a safety precaution
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