Cheap RO/DI recomendations?

[Ron99]

The Vertex Puratek100 is actually only CDN $370 at J&L and is actually not a bad price for what you get. It has an inline TDS meter and built in booster pump. It is pretty efficient and is close to 1:1 in waste to RO water production. Cheaper units generally produce about 3 to 5 times as much waste water as RO water. That is the one I have and it is great.

[sphelps]

Originally Posted by Ron99

The Vertex Puratek100 is actually only CDN $370 at J&L and is actually not a bad price for what you get. It has an inline TDS meter and built in booster pump. It is pretty efficient and is close to 1:1 in waste to RO water production. Cheaper units generally produce about 3 to 5 times as much waste water as RO water. That is the one I have and it is great.

Is the pump noisy?? I really thought about getting one because you're right, it is a good price for what you get and the 1:1 ratio seems too good to be true, but I saw one setup and it was sooo noisy I passed

[Ron99]

It's a little noisy but not really loud. I only run it for short periods to fill a couple of 5 gallon bottles as I need them so the noise isn't a problem. I suppose if you were running it non stop or very frequently it might get annoying. But it is a true 100 gpd so it fills my bottles quickly. Many RO units claim to be 50gpd or 100gpd but are actually alot less efficient. With the booster pump this one is fairly efficient so I don't actually run it alot.

One other nice feature is that it automatically back flushes every 15 minutes or so to keep the filters from clogging up.