Over doing the RO/DI

[Basile]

I was going to take max Cap spectrapure but the Vertex for $20 more as total automatic flush a booster pump and opperated by itself plug and watch is about it, so i'm going with that 100gph 4 stage.Thanks guys for your input.

[gregzz4]

Basile, what's your tapwater TDS ?

[mike31154]

Originally Posted by gregzz4

Basile, what's your tapwater TDS ?

Yes, this & what's your water pressure? You may not need a booster pump. Why complicate matters? For less than $20 you should be able to score a water pressure gauge & handheld TDS meters are also available these days for about $10, usually in the recreational vehicle department of WalMerde or Crappy Tire. Do a little research on your source water before you buy & you can save money, keep things simple. More automation is not necessarily better. Keep in mind that every time you flush your membrane, water is still flowing through your carbon stage, so its chlorine removing capacity is being depleted at a faster rate. I'm still on my original membrane after over 4 years using a manual flush of a minute or so before & after production. Not a big chore.

Something I forgot to mention in my earlier post is that I've noticed after every flush cycle, the TDS out of the membrane creeps up several points until it settles in again. So frequent auto flushes are going to be hard on your DI stage.

[gregzz4]

Originally Posted by mike31154

WalMerde

[mike31154]

Originally Posted by gregzz4

He, yeah I can't take credit for that one. One of my dear Quebec friends blurted that out years ago. I cracked up too. Very apropos, however, I do find myself shopping there from time to time.

[Basile]

GRRRRRRRRR i whish i'd known these little details before comitting, the price of learning , but the deed is done. I belong to a club and we meet regulary and they all had one so i signed up for one we're all in the same city and these guys know more about this than me. I'm not new to the hobby , but part of it is chineese to me . Anything revolving around plumbing is off my scanner, now i know the price of it. I've been out of the hobby to long too and things are happening very fast now, the tanks are arriving in 3 weeks from Concept Aquariums. Thanks guys for the info i'll munch on that for a while . I thought this was going to be an easy buy it appears not, LOL food for thoughts.....their's was no answer yesterday anywhere to find out about TDS and to my other questions.

[Evilweevil]

You will be really happy with that puratek system it works really well and it's plug and play nice and simple

[mike31154]

Originally Posted by Basile

GRRRRRRRRR i whish i'd known these little details before comitting, the price of learning , but the deed is done. I belong to a club and we meet regulary and they all had one so i signed up for one we're all in the same city and these guys know more about this than me. I'm not new to the hobby , but part of it is chineese to me . Anything revolving around plumbing is off my scanner, now i know the price of it. I've been out of the hobby to long too and things are happening very fast now, the tanks are arriving in 3 weeks from Concept Aquariums. Thanks guys for the info i'll munch on that for a while . I thought this was going to be an easy buy it appears not, LOL food for thoughts.....their's was no answer yesterday anywhere to find out about TDS and to my other questions.

Don't sweat it, you'll get a very good system & can omit any parts not required once you get the feel for it. Generally you can't go wrong with advice provided by a local club. I checked the Ville de Gatineau site & was unable to find any water quality reports either. All I could come up with is that they subscribe to the Programme d'excellence en eau potable (program for excellence in drinking water), which surpasses the provincial standards required under the Regulation respecting the quality of drinking water. This doesn't help when you're looking for TDS numbers or what's still in it.

http://www.gatineau.ca/page.asp?p=en...te_eau_potable

In Vernon, I have access to Annual Water Reports which have all the good info on TDS etc. There are also monthly reports available.

http://www.rdno.ca/docs/2013_wq_north_kal.pdf