Re: RO units

["Vern Wensley" <vernwen@home.com>]

My water is 10 ppm and ph 5.6.This will vary with the amount of rain or lack
of rain.I am living right near the sorce of the local water here,I dont know
if that makes a difference or not.I do know that there are very little
buffers in my tap water.In Vancouver the water should be almost the same.I
have the instructions on how to recharge twp,havent tried it yet though.
Vern


-----Original Message-----
From: The Eng Family <engfam@axion.net>
To: apisto@admin.listbox.com <apisto@admin.listbox.com>
Date: March 22, 1999 7:17 PM
Subject: Re: RO units


>[snip]
>>It is rated for 50 to 150 gallons of deionized water,but I can get twice
>that >since my water is so soft already
>[snip]
>
>Hi Vern,
>
>I was just wondering how soft your water is?  I've not used the TWP yet but
>my water conditions are 1 DH and 1 GH, so I'd expect a lot of water like
>you are producing.
>
>You might want to try to regenerate you DI resins using the instructions at
>Reefs.org  http://www.reefs.org/library/article.html.  You can recharge one
>cannister of resins with $5 worth of materials (muriatic/hydrochloric acid
>(HCL) and sodium hydroxide (NaCO3, I think).  The acid is easy to find at
>hardware stores, builders use it to get the morter off of brick work.  The
>sodium hydroxide may be harder to find.  It's also known as 'Lye' (used in
>soap).  You may be able to find it in plumbing supply stores but it must be
>pure lye and not Draino (which is sodium hydroxide but it also has other
>chemicals in it).  I found my 'Lye' at a store that sells do it yourself
>soap making kits.
>
>Sincerely,
>Victor Eng Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
>engfam@axion.net
>



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