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I picked my 6 stage off of Ebay for 69.00 USD


Robert

Thanks Steve I appreciate the input. I will probably go with the first one.
My under counter unit has a small resevoir, but it pretty much is reduced to a very slow flow rate by the time is has filled a 2L bottle. Couldn't imagine waiting for a 5 to 10Gal pail with it sitting in the sink. I'll hook the new one up in the laundry room so it can sit there as long as it wants to fill a bucket.

Alright, going to order one of these today. One more question. The extra 3.2 gallon pressure tank? I know its not need but its not to much more to get it as well.

Nice to have?? or waste of money??

I have the 3.2 gallon tank and like having it. I think it's worth the extra 20 or 30 bucks.

how big is the one you have on your tap? you could always plumb it in-line with that one if you have the room and increase your capacity.

Steve

Steve, The under the counter is a canister (2 Gallon I think) with the fileters attached to the side and a pressure pump. Its a nice compact unit for its purpose but doubt it'll do what I want. The new one in the laundry room will have much better access for filter changes, flushes, and water access.

Just finishing up mounting/plumbing the ro/di unit. The unit has 2 output. One which they say to hook the standard faaucet adapter to and the other they have just a small ball valve. Now the one with the small ball valve is the DI water valve. Now I'm confused. lol I was under the impression that the RO/DI was a complete process coming out of one valve at the end. Apparently not. What is the DI water (deionization) used for? I'm reading now that it is not required for the tank. Only the RO water is needed?

Thanks for the info,
Yours truly, a slightly confused Gerald

the ro/di goes into your tank. just the ro skipping the di is for drinking water.
di tastes like crap for some reason.

Thats where I'm confused Willow. The unit has 2 faucets one for di and one for ro. The input comes from the Carbon filters and then goes through a T. The T goes into the resin chamber (the di I assume) which has a tap on the other end. The T then continues to another T this one branches to the tank (extra volume) and also goes through the ro filter and out the sink faucet. From what I can tell if I want ro/di out of the faucet would I not have the take the output of the resin chamber and plumb that into the T before the tank/ro filter? Or does the resin chamber being plumbed where it is provide anough contact to operate.

Anyone have an answer that will solve my confusion?? lol

Ok after ready some websites I think I have figured it out. If you look at the image below you can see where the main blue feed comes up. The first tee branches off into the DI unit (blue cap)which has a tap on the other end. The 2nd tee branches off to the RO unit (white cap) and the tank(yellow line). The RO chamber has a white line with a tap on the end.
So 2 chambers, 2 seperate taps.

http://www3.telus.net/bcwolfen/images/ro.jpg

From what I have read DI water tastes bad so it makes sense that they designed it this way. Also RO wastes more water than DI. But seeing as neither really matter and if you run RO water through the DI chamber then you can go much longer before recharging/replacing the resin. (again from what I've read tonight)

So my thought is this. Switch the locations of the RO & DI chambers. This will allow me to run from the feed (blue line) into the RO chamber and the tank (1st tee). That way I still have my 3.2 Gal of stored prefiltered water.

Remove the tap from the outout of the RO and run it into the tee attached to the DI chamber. Cap the other end of the tee and attach my tap to the output of the DI unit.

This as far as my basic plumbing skills can figure out, will give me nice RO/DI water.

Am I correct in this assesment?? <<--- IGNORE THIS QUESTION :redface:

OK NM I am dumb. There I admit it. The RO is the BIG chamber before the 2 smaller ones. The 2nd small chamber is just a 2nd inline carbon filter to improve taste. So unless I'm worried about how the fishies think my water tastes, take water from the DI tap.

They really should provide better instructions with these things. I actually had to find a website to show how to hook the hoses up as the leaflet that came with it showed some parts and had a black and white image of the unit assembled. Thats helpful. LOL