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Originally Posted by bassman
Well both really. Your drinking water is now soft too. So you are not getting the proper minerals there either.
No, the RO unit does not remove the all the minerals, RO units are only filters, nothing more.
Yes minerals can be put back into your water, why bother though? Just don't remove them in the first place.
From what I have been told/read what a person is supposed to do in the home is to take the line from the well and filter it with a in-line canister filter. From there you tee the line. One goes to your softener. The other goes to your cold water tap in the kitchen and to your outside taps. You would use this for drinking, watering flowers, lawn, etc. and to feed your R/O unit.
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The RO/DI unit should bring the TDS down to zero, meaning it strips all the dissolved solids including minerals out of the water. Theoretically the output from RO/DI should be pure h2o. It sounds like running the water through the cannister and then the softener just does some of the work before the water even gets to the RO unit.
The reason we want RO units for our tanks is because we want to know EXACTLY what's added to the water. So we pull everything out and add in what we need. As far as drinking water goes, maybe a glass of gatorade every day is enough.
Hillbilly: So by jacking up the PSI on your pressure system, you haven't found any adverse effects on the well. How about the house and drinkers, etc. My big fear with that is having joints that can't handle the pressure and springing leaks where I can't find them until there's major damage done.