mod ro di unit

[victor626nj]

hey i was wondering if anyone new how to mod a corallife pro flo 2 so that i can use it to make drinking water cause it does have a di filter and that will make me sick:yuk: i already had to mod it so i could use an online tds meter .
thanks in advance

 

[victor626nj]

oh yeah before any one asks it does 50 gal per day

 

[siege]

I wasn't aware DI water would make you ill (or nauseous, more-like, I'm guessing)... Really?

 

[victor626nj]

well i think that di water will get you sick at leaste thats what i heard but ro wont if not they wouldnt sell it in the grocery store

 

[victor626nj]

well i got two shut off valves and a tea connection and i made it work so now i have fresh drinking water and i have water for my tank

 

[cgill311]

siege;37978 wrote: I wasn't aware DI water would make you ill (or nauseous, more-like, I'm guessing)... Really?

If you drink DI water (which should be minimal in dissolved ions), you can suffer from osmotic shock. This basically means salt ions in your cells will flow out to the DI water to establish an equilibrium between salt concentration inside and outside of your cells. This process can actually create enough force to rupture your cell walls, resulting in internal bleeding.

Bottom line: Don't drink DI water (or distilled for that matter).

 

[siege]

Ok, yes, I'm familiar with osmotic shock from drinking distilled water, though I didn't think about it until just now, which makes sense. Makes me glad I got an RO/DI unit with a 6th stage carbon "taste filter" and plumbing for a faucet tap at the sink.

 

[FutureInterest]

Hmmm osmotic shock sounds scary... The difference in TDS between my RO and RO/DI is 1 TDS right now. RO - 1, RO/DI - 0. Should we not be drinking the RO either?

 

[cgill311]

FutureInterest;38799 wrote: Hmmm osmotic shock sounds scary... The difference in TDS between my RO and RO/DI is 1 TDS right now. RO - 1, RO/DI - 0. Should we not be drinking the RO either?

No, don't drink RO either. Your body needs the dissolved minerals found in normal drinking water.

 

[victor626nj]

then why d o they sell ro in the stores for drinking

 

[siege]

flaco626nj;38921 wrote: then why d o they sell ro in the stores for drinking

I guarantee that 99.98% of the water in the store has somewhere on the label "Minerals added" (i.e. stuff you don't want in your fish tank) .

I found two 1gal. jugs of water in my local Kroger that didn't say "minerals added", and they were $3.50 a gallon, I think. I imagine that prior to bottling it's seriously oxygenated to deal with that missing ion.

 

[FutureInterest]

I dunno the RO water I used to get from kroger for drinking always tested at 1-2 TDS. It was from those glacier filtering machines.

Thanks Chris, now I'm scared to drink water .

 

[siege]

i have no idea how MUCH minerals are added, i've just been told that you don't want to added anything marked as such to your fish tank.

 

[buckeye field supply]

RO water is fine for drinking. There are countless RO systems hooked up all over the world in cities and homes busy producing drinking water...

There are mixed opinions re the health effects of drinking DI water. But these are really academic arguements because you wouldn't want to drink DI water - it doesn't taste good.

Russ @ BFS