That is an impressive system
limited water changes... next step, overkill
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once I get the bugs out, I expect I'll be working my way up to about 1/3 tank water changes, when ever desired, with nothing more than the push of 2 buttons...
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so we have a blizzard today I "can't" go into work... so I have some time to do a few things in the house today... 1st thing, I haven't heard back from that if the RO manufacturer has shipped my part, and of course I took the manual into work the other day, so I'm playing... I think I isolated the bad part, by pulling off wires, from the connectors... I found one component, that if I unplugged it, and touched the wires together, the unit will run... assuming, it won't back flush, but I got. half tank already, and think as long as the pressure guage stays normal pressure, I can run it... if the pressure starts to climb, if I rehook the component, it'll pulse out the rinse line, hopefully back flushing the membrane... at least if the tank is full, I'll be able to do a normal ( or a little bigger ) water change, with the drain pump, when the rest of those components come tomorrow...
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55 gallons of RO water in a couple hours... I'll shut it down manually, when it gets close to full... I need a 3/8 inch push lock coupler, before my tank can overflow to the drain..
Did you test the ec; 55 in 2 hours is too much that would imply that your system is doing 27*24 or 648 a day.
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technically less, as the tank had about 15 - 20 gallons still in it, when it started... it's pumping at the right pressure, 70 psi...
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Still i would test the ec; of course if you just want soft water and not actually maintaining blackwater aquariums the ec probably doesn't matter if it is 50 or 70.
btw 20*24 is still 480 gpd - i thought your unit was like 200gpd. oops 550 gpd unit so 480 gpd would seem on par. Also have you measured your ro to waste ratio ?
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supposed to be 300 gallons per day, max it has big 3 - 4 times the size pre-filters, and then splits into 3 - 100 gallon membranes... picture from the back side...
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ec is that conductivity???
it's all plumbed to the tank, so I'd have to shut it down, pop a line off to test, what is coming out right now... and I don't have test tools handy...
suggestions for test tools would be appreciated
I have a good tester, but I have it at work, for testing boiler water
it's all plumbed to the tank, so I'd have to shut it down, pop a line off to test, what is coming out right now... and I don't have test tools handy...
suggestions for test tools would be appreciated
I have a good tester, but I have it at work, for testing boiler water
Yea ec is conductivity - most ro unit come with a simple tds meter built in - yours hsould have one; you can use a cheap $12 tds meter from amazon - they are sort of ok some of the time. I have a $90 ec pen from hanna since some of the fishes i have are quite delicate.
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2:30, to 5:40, tank went from 55 gallons, to 80 gallons...
thought about maybe using a 3/8 line pressure switch, if it fills too fast, but with the tank overflow to drain, I think I can just manually turn it on and off???
thought about maybe using a 3/8 line pressure switch, if it fills too fast, but with the tank overflow to drain, I think I can just manually turn it on and off???
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Would save a lot of water using a float or pressure switch.
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iSpring ( the RO unit manufacturer ) is sending me a whole new "machine head" I think that is the RO unit, minus all the filters, and maybe the pump... it should be here tomorrow... but in the mean time, I have over 90 gallons of RO water in the tank... some of my vacuum line fittings were delayed, with the storms, but most everything is here today, so I could do a trial pumped water change tonight, using the gravel vacuum attachment... also my bag of 1/4 inch push lock line "T's" and valves arrived today, so every tank will have a 1/4 inch line to it for hard well water, to individually blend as needed... shrimp tanks (10 gallon tanks) will be mostly hard water, & most of my tanks will start with 100 % RO water, with the ability to trickle in some hard well water, if minerals are needed...
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grrrr... 1 shut off valve short of completing my hard water line to each tank in this group... at least all 3 shrimp tanks have hard water plumbed now...
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