Re: Altering Water

[Steve Lasky <festae00@yahoo.com>]

Thanks for the correction.  For some reason, I thought going 90/10 or 80/20
pure/tap would still give me fairly soft and acidic water.  I'll just have to
play around with ratios and whatnot before I do anything else.
Steve

IDMiamiBob@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 11/13/00 1:03:52 AM Mountain Standard Time,
> festae00@yahoo.com writes:
>
> > At that point, it's a simple matter of playing around with different
> >  ratios of tap to ro till the right balance is achieved.  By balance, I
> mean
> > pH
> >  and hardness.  Hopefully i'm somewhat right :)
>
> Not necessarily.  If you mix pure water with tap water, you will end up with
> a pH somewhere between 6.6(the "theoretical" pH of pure water that has
> dissolved the amount of CO2 proportionate to atmospheric concentration) and
> the pH of your tap water.  If you have base water(above pH 7.0, you will not
> automatiucally get acid water by mixing DI water and tap water.
>
> Bob Dixon
>
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