RO/DI unit troubles

mike31154 · #1 10-21-2009, 04:41 PM

Also check if your system has a 'flush' valve on it. Some systems incorporate the flow restrictor and flush valve in a single unit. It will have a lever similar to a ball valve to open and close the flush feature. This lever should be in the horizontal (not inline) with the assembly for producing filtered water. Otherwise all the water bypasses and 'flushes' the membrane.

If you could provide a little more info on the system, such as model number or gpd rating etc. we'll be better able to assist & provide advice.

burrows14 · #2 10-21-2009, 07:28 PM

It's a 7 stage aquasafe aquarium 2 unit rated at 100gpd. I'm pretty sure that I need the flow restrictor I don't see a flush valve so I don't know if that's what it's doing.

Ray

hillegom · #3 10-21-2009, 09:20 PM

I just replaced my 100 gpd membrane and put a new flow restrictor valve in. You could have my old one which was 2 yrs old.

burrows14 · #4 10-21-2009, 09:41 PM

Thanks for the offer but at the moment me and my girlfriend are sharing a car and she is working latethe next couple nights so I won't have the car to pick it up. Where did you get your flow restrictor? There is a home depot within walking distance of my house. Do you they would have them?

Thanks
Ray

hillegom · #5 10-21-2009, 09:45 PM

I don't know if HD has them or not.
the kind I have inserts into the drain line, so it is small enough to be mailed in an envelope

untamed · #6 10-21-2009, 10:54 PM

You didn't say how you obtained this RODI unit.....but it doesn't work without the flow restrictor so whomever sold it to you owes you one.

mark · #7 10-21-2009, 11:01 PM

with the Aquasafe the flush is combined with the flow restrictor

burrows14 · #8 10-21-2009, 11:04 PM

bought it direct from aquasafe. The unit didn't come with any instructions but they do have the manual online but it's no help at all it says something along the lines "you can figure most of it out on your own"