DI Vessels
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Perfect day to try it out with the bright sun.
Also worth buying a wee test device so you can be sure your water is getting to zero PPM. Depends on how hard your water is but a vessel that size can sometimes struggle to get the water totally pure. A tip can be to reduce the water flow a bit if it’s not quite getting to zero. Also the test device lets you know when to change resin although water spotting will also tell you that.
Also worth buying a wee test device so you can be sure your water is getting to zero PPM. Depends on how hard your water is but a vessel that size can sometimes struggle to get the water totally pure. A tip can be to reduce the water flow a bit if it’s not quite getting to zero. Also the test device lets you know when to change resin although water spotting will also tell you that.
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Interesting, that's bang on what my wee cheapo meter showed too.Link for water hardness test results based on your postcode.
78ppm here
Means your water is very soft which is good. Will still possibly stain a bit but not major. However that is of course a general result for your area, when I look up that site for my area it gives a hardness of about 140 but when I measure it at home I get 180.
Tested at 58ppm after the filter so decided to change as there was some water marks. 0ppm after as expected but surprised to see our normal water at 77ppm
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What resin did you replace with and where from? Need to get new resin for my 2.
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I’d you have particularly bad tap-water (maybe 150+ TFs) would it not be better / more economical to use TWO DI vessels in-like together..?
once one vessel is exhausted ,failing to give 0 tds, you can then use it in the 1st vessel to act as a pre-filter for 2nd vessel…so the 2nd vessel doesn’t have as much crap to filter out and will prolong it…
So...instead of just throwing it out you’re getting more use out of it
once one vessel is exhausted ,failing to give 0 tds, you can then use it in the 1st vessel to act as a pre-filter for 2nd vessel…so the 2nd vessel doesn’t have as much crap to filter out and will prolong it…
So...instead of just throwing it out you’re getting more use out of it
That method above with the two vessels is exactly what I do. Otherwise you are maybe throwing out resin that can still get the water down to maybe 25 or 30 ppm. Use that as a pre filter so the second vessel has to work a lot less and lasts a lot longer. Then eventually dump resin from the pre filter vessel and use the final vessel then as the pre filter with new resin in the final one.
Mine is quite soft but will see about a second filter
Just putting two and two together here. Our water lines were renewed in our whole street. Would that reduce water hardness/Ppm?
My Ppm used to be 115
What resin did you replace with and where from? Need to get new resin for my 2.
Purolite from @jferg
Just putting two and two together here. Our water lines were renewed in our whole street. Would that reduce water hardness/Ppm?
My Ppm used to be 115
What resin did you replace with and where from? Need to get new resin for my 2.
Purolite from @jferg
Hardness is to do with where your water comes from.
Lappintyre
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Whats the figure for your area? 14 months is impressive.
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I’ve no idea tbh, but some days the tap water is yellow, we choose not to drink it lol, bottled water for drinks/tea etc
The two vessel thing seems to work well for me, where I used to live I had a single vessel and it did 8 months-ish I only use filtered water for the final rinse
Final rinse for me also and tap reading of 170 roughly and mine only lasts 3-4 months filled with MB 151. Actually have 2 of them and still pathetic lol
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To purchase more resin or just continue with drying towels is the question. Its pretty expensive to only last a few months.
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Snoopcousins
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Wondering if an RO-DI unit would be better value?
Hook it up under your tap /sink and feed to a holding tank of some sort - and just use a large watering can to go over the car for final rinse?
Can get a decent unit for around £180 and would be good for maybe 2,000+ litres before changing the tubes (about £30-40)
Anyone use anything similar?
Hook it up under your tap /sink and feed to a holding tank of some sort - and just use a large watering can to go over the car for final rinse?
Can get a decent unit for around £180 and would be good for maybe 2,000+ litres before changing the tubes (about £30-40)
Anyone use anything similar?
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My water before the filter, but going by the colour, would you drink it?! 
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Also in a v. hard water area, I was wondering if anyone had experimented with using a rainwater butt as their source before the DI vessel?
Finding it v. hard to get decent price for tall vessel and resin in Ireland without going over €200.
Was also thinking of buying 200 litre water butt and asking window cleaner man to fill it up for $ next time he does the windows?
Finding it v. hard to get decent price for tall vessel and resin in Ireland without going over €200.
Was also thinking of buying 200 litre water butt and asking window cleaner man to fill it up for $ next time he does the windows?