Re: R/O Units

[IDMiamiBob@aol.com]

In a message dated 6/11/00 4:56:48 PM Mountain Daylight Time, WnyZman@aol.com 
writes:

>  So far nothing has happened to the hardness until the 
>  final one line in/ two line out membrane where the hardness is removed. 
This 
> 
>  filter membrane has to be replaced about once a year and I'm sorry but I 
>  never weighed them to find out the weight difference but I can tell you 
it's 
> 
>  quite a bit. That weight happens to be the dissolved solids we are trying 
to 
> 
>  remove from the original water.

Having never actually worked with an RO unit, I can't dispute this idea.  Can 
anyone out there using one confirm that the filter appears to catch it all, 
and that the waste water is pretty much the same as the input?

Bob Dixon


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