It's a ball valve? Ok, this sounds different. I beleive mine is a tiny gate valve. Hard to say, it just looks like a plastic white box with three hose threadings, one for in, one for out, and one to T off to the output line of the RO.
It seems to be working fine, other than it's a little disturbing that at any given moment I'm more likely to find my RO unit going rather than idle. It's basically like it's on all the time, flowing directly into the tanks, just throttled back ever so slightly to match the evap rate. Yeah ... well ... hmm I didn't notice the math before but I guess ... 20gallons of evap per day and a 24 gpd RO unit .... kind of adds up doesn't it.
Maybe there's part of the solution .. buy a bigger RO unit, thus the fill cycles would be much faster maybe? And a ball valve shutoff instead of a gate valve shutoff. I will have to visit this fabled Hose Headquarters you speak of.
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07-22-2003, 08:52 PM
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