Drink RO/DI water?

[whaase]

Is it ok to drink RO/DI water? I seem to remember seeing something on this before, but I can't find the thread...

Walter

[Troy F]

You can drink it.

[StirCrazy]

yes

the problem is DI doesn't tast good, so I put a "T" with a couple valves inbetween the RO and DI membrains and I tap my drinking water off there. also I am not depleating the DI on drinking water when the RO water is prety much pure anyways.

Steve

[whaase]

Thanks for the quick answers.

Walter

[whaase]

On another note, could you use distilled water for your tank?

Walter

[StirCrazy]

On another note, could you use distilled water for your tank?

Walter

are you using a copper distiller?

Steve

[whaase]

Not sure, my wife was asking if we could get a distiller rather than a RO/DI...

I reallydon't know much about them.

Walter

[StirCrazy]

distilled water is the purest form of water you can have if you get a good distiller. the problem is the process is boiling off the water passing it through demister pads then recondencing it, this leave behind any impurities as they can not be carried over with the steam. cheeper units will have no demisteres so you might get carry over in the form of water drops which will alow some impurities to be taken to the final water output. they consume a lot of power for the amount of water they make (think about boiling off 5 gal of water with a tea kettle :mrgreen: )

we use them in a much larger version (805 gal per hour) but that is because the ship is a steam ship and we just use exhaust steam from the engins to heat the water.

now the coper comes into play because if the condenser is coper you are taking a hot dry steam and cooling it back into water that is verry pure, we all know pure water is a solvent so it will pick up trace elements of copper from the tubing. might not want that in your tank.

Steve

[whaase]

RO/DI it is :biggrin:

Thanks for the explenation! Always wondered how they worked..

Walter

[sumpfinfishe]

I would go with RO/DI as well.
I have one and like Steve, I too put in a T fitting and two switch valves inline so that way the RO can be turned on for just drinking water. I keep a 2gl jug in the fridge so it's cold ontap all the time. Also DI removes all metals and minerals and our body's need that stuff so don't drink DI.

[StirCrazy]

Also DI removes all metals and minerals and our body's need that stuff so don't drink DI.

this part isn't an issue at all as we get more than enuf minerals and such from the food we eat. also RO will remove the majority of those things also.

Steve

[rickjames]

Maybe it's just me, but I think the water tastes good even after the DI stage. :cool: