Warming RO water?

[Gools]

My RO feed water is freezing, just looking for some ideas on how to warm it up. I have heard of using a bucket with water and a heater in it, only problem is you would need alot of tubing for the water to have a chance to warm up, and with more tubing you lose pressure. Is there any other methods to warm the water?

[banditpowdercoat]

Make RO in a bucket, with heate in it. One bucket at a time. Are you planing a large water change? Basically need a bucket large enough to hold all the water you want to change, or change the water one smaller bucket at a time

[Myka]

Are you talking top up or waterchanges? Either way...bucket with heater.

[banditpowdercoat]

I dont warm for top-ups. But then, only using 1/2g for TU, added to sump, doesnt change tank temp

[Psyire]

The only thing you can do is add a pump and make sure your pressure into your RO unit is 65 psi constantly. (if it is already then forget the pump)

It would cost you a lot more money to warm your feed water with a heater than it would to simply waste more water. (electricity is much more expensive than water)

One other possible option is to coil your RO feed tubing in your sump. This will cool your tank water as well as heat your RO feed water. You must be careful not to cool your tank water too much though otherwise your heater will run and you are back to square one.

[KrazyKuch]

You could always tap into you hot water feed line as put a valve and then take it to you RO aswell....this way you can add a little hot water to bring them temp up!