RO filters used to be very low flow. They used to be quite expensive
too. After use they require flushing as they plug up. RO is pressing
water up against a membrane that only passes water molecules and other
molecules that are smaller, 80psi on the tap-water side gets you a
trickle on the drinking water side. Maybe there have been some
improvement in how this gets done since mine was made.
On 5/27/21 4:31 PM, David Coudron wrote:
Yes, as mentioned below, figure out how much iron and how much
hardness you are dealing with. That sizes both the filter and the
softener. Our cabin had tons of iron, so RO was out. Plus we
wanted whole house filtration so that the showers and sinks had less
mineral and rust. RO is really, really good for drinking and cooking
water, but they usually aren’t recommended for whole house. Of course
it depends on how many folks are in the house and so on. Lots of
ways to skin this cat, but best place to start is to see how hard the
water is and how much iron it has.
Regards,
David Coudron
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In theory a water softener with the right salt should knock down both
the hardness and iron content....
On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 3:18 PM Adam Moffett <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Right, I just didn't recognize the abreviation.
I looked at two reverse osmosis systems and I was over the maximum
iron content for one and over the maximum hardness for the other.
I'll look at iSpring.
On 5/27/2021 5:07 PM, Forrest Christian (List Account) wrote:
Reverse Osmosis.
It's a way to filter water out to pretty much tasteless. The
iSpring system I mentioned is a reverse osmosis system. It
passes the water through several filters and then a reverse
osmosis membrane which can filter out impurities larger than
0.001 micron. The remaining stages are related to treating
the water such that any impurities that the membrane can't
filter out are either removed or rendered tasteless.
I considered putting a whole house one in, but figured I only
cared about what I was drinking/eating. I'm ok with showering
in the water which tastes slightly bad but doesn't smell bad.
If the water had an odor, I'd be figuring out how to cancel
that out at the head end...
On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 2:53 PM Adam Moffett
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
What's RO?
On 5/27/2021 4:50 PM, Chuck McCown via AF wrote:
If it is RO I would think you would not need a
softener after it.
*From:*David Coudron
*Sent:*Thursday, May 27, 2021 1:04 PM
*To:*AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
*Subject:*Re: [AFMUG] OT: Water conditioning systems
We put a whole house filter system by Morton in our
cabin recently. Seems pretty decent. Nicest feature
is there are no filters to change. It flushes the
filters like a water software flushes when
recharging. Only downside is you have to have it by
a drain, just like a water softener. For city water
it installs before the water softener, but for well
water, it installs after the water softener.
Seems to work pretty well.
*David Coudron*
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<mailto:[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Adam
Moffett
*Sent:* Thursday, May 27, 2021 2:00 PM
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*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT: Water conditioning systems
Is that an under the sink system or a whole house system?
On 5/27/2021 2:22 PM, Steve Jones wrote:
My sister has crummy water and has an old osmosis
filter, water tastes good and the tumors are
minimal, most can just be cut off with a butter knife
On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 1:18 PM Adam Moffett
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wrote:
Moving to a house with well water. It's
actually my parents old house
where I grew up so I'm very familiar with the
water there. Currently
spoiled by nice, clean municipal water. That
house has very high iron
and manganese levels. Definitely also have
hydrogen sulfide because you
can smell and taste it.
There's already a salt water softener and that
helps quite a bit, but
I'm looking at other some of these filter
systems to put inline as
well. Wondering if this crowd has opinions or
preferred brands for that
stuff. All 2c opinions are welcome.
I'm also not sure about UV sterilization vs a
chlorine injector system.
Seems like the UV is less maintenance because
all you do is change the
bulb once a year, but IDK it's my first time
looking at this stuff. Any
opinions on that?
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