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Old 09-15-2008, 04:37 AM
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Wendell from Ocean Aquatics just listed a couple for sale, you can't be do much better than that if you ask me

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Old 09-15-2008, 05:23 AM
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16 jugs, $10/jug deposit. How much for the actual water? You know, I found my RO/DI on ebay, lightly used for $50. Prev owner daid maybe 500 gal through it, and was about right, TDS still really low. 700 in, 10 out
The water is only $4 per 18L jug at Superstore, which I think isn't too bad. Haven't thought about checking ebay for used RO/DI filters though
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Old 09-15-2008, 05:24 AM
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Wendell from Ocean Aquatics just listed a couple for sale, you can't be do much better than that if you ask me

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Cool thanks Christy! I'll be calling them tomorrow morning to hopefully secure one for myself
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Old 09-15-2008, 03:54 PM
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The water is only $4 per 18L jug at Superstore, which I think isn't too bad. Haven't thought about checking ebay for used RO/DI filters though
Yikes! It's only $1.25/18L here ...
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You do know that superstore water is RO but they do not use DI filters. Also, I would be weary of those places as I am sure they do not check their filters that often. I use to do the same thing as you before I bought my RO/DI unit. I measured the water with a TDS meter in one of those jugs one day and found out it was at 50+ TDS.
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You do know that superstore water is RO but they do not use DI filters. Also, I would be weary of those places as I am sure they do not check their filters that often. I use to do the same thing as you before I bought my RO/DI unit. I measured the water with a TDS meter in one of those jugs one day and found out it was at 50+ TDS.
I don't use the machine they have to fill up empty jugs, I buy the pre-sealed polaris jugs that they have. I just assumed the water polaris put in those jugs was ro/di, so I'm not 100% sure
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Old 09-16-2008, 01:40 AM
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P.S. - Both of those filters at Ocean Aquatics were sold by the time I called them this morning
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I'm not sure they do DI... as there's urban myths abound with DI water.... so RO is likely the best you'll get. Also, for human consumtion, which is what the water is sold for, is likely RO only...
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I'm not sure they do DI... as there's urban myths abound with DI water.... so RO is likely the best you'll get. Also, for human consumtion, which is what the water is sold for, is likely RO only...
not nessasarly true, there are some places that do DI, and some that use RO and some that use a combanation. I lot of the machiens that you fill your self in stores are filters with DI so they do't have to do as much plumbing.

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