Is this the RO machine I need?

[C Rose Cleaning Services]

Trying to save money on resin (banging through about £115 a month). I'm renting at the min so I can't harvest rain water or build an RO shed outside so I wanted one I could run from a tap then into the DI vessel afterwards to cut the costs. Is this what I am looking at with the Facelift RO (link below)? Just plug into my tap and run it through and back out to my DI filter?

FaceLift® ZERO ONE

 

[Solarpanelcleanington]

How much water do you use?

Daqua have a good reputation.

 

[C Rose Cleaning Services]

How much water do you use?
Daqua have a good reputation.

At the mo I'm using a backpack and doing upstairs WFP and down trad and going through 1-125L a day

 

[Dave B]

This is what you want and have the product water running through your di

I can make a litre every 1.5 minutes so connect up in the evenings and you'll have enough for the day

Roughly 3 hrs 12 minutes for 125l

450gpd REVERSE OSMOSIS SYSTEM POLE WINDOW CLEANING / AQUARIUM DISCUS MARINE RO

 

[Duncs]

thats some cash in resin

what is your TDS reading mate

 

[C Rose Cleaning Services]

thats some cash in resinwhat is your TDS reading mate

330approx

 

[C Rose Cleaning Services]

This is what you want and have the product water running through your diI can make a litre every 1.5 minutes so connect up in the evenings and you'll have enough for the day

Roughly 3 hrs 12 minutes for 125l

450gpd REVERSE OSMOSIS SYSTEM POLE WINDOW CLEANING / AQUARIUM DISCUS MARINE RO

So this just fits on a normal hozelock for a tap too like the facelift one?

 

[Dave B]

It connects with 4mm plastic pipe but you use a jg connector which is pushfit for the 4mm pipe and has hosetail on the other end for standard garden hose so can connect/disconnect as quick as a hoselock

 

[Dave B]

Any idea on your water pressure?

Mine is high enough that i produce water at 3-4 ppm before di with one of those ro meaning di resin would last between 1 and 2 years easily

 

[Den]

I have the same ro as Daveyboy my tap is approx 270 I get about 6ppm after Ro then I polish with Di where I live I have to use 000 ppm have tried with 3 and 4 but my windows left marks lots of lime scale in tap water here don't know if that's the cause.

 

[C Rose Cleaning Services]

Any idea on your water pressure?Mine is high enough that i produce water at 3-4 ppm before di with one of those ro meaning di resin would last between 1 and 2 years easily

Don't know what it is in a bar sense but it is rapid out of my kitchen tap. So in dummies terms:

1/Hook this RO up to my mains tap in kitchen

2/Then can I run that daisy chained into my DI vessel?

3/ Decant into my barrels

4/ Fill my backpack

If that's the case then I'll order one this month cos my resin bags (6L Unger Resin) are doing about 400-500L of water before expiring.

 

[Dave B]

Should be about 37 minutes to fill a 25l drum so if doing it indoors you could set a timer and do the barrels individually

You could connect it to the pipework under the sink if you have the knowhow for diy and keep it in the cupboard under the sink

 

[C Rose Cleaning Services]

Should be about 37 minutes to fill a 25l drum so if doing it indoors you could set a timer and do the barrels individuallyYou could connect it to the pipework under the sink if you have the knowhow for diy and keep it in the cupboard under the sink

Fantastic news, I don't care about the time it takes, but if it saves me money then all the better.

Cheers fella

 

[Andy]

I have the 450gpd collingswaterproducts ro my tap water is 360 comes out at 004 and 50/50 pure to waste.

 

[Taxlossloz]

Fantastic news, I don't care about the time it takes, but if it saves me money then all the better.
Cheers fella

Sounds like your using them Unger hydro bags?

 

[spruce]

Fantastic news, I don't care about the time it takes, but if it saves me money then all the better.
Cheers fella

If you have the ability to store water then that's fine. I certainly wouldn't go below a 450GPD r/o although some manage with a 300GPD.

These r/o's produce water painfully slowly.

When purchasing an r/o you have to consider that the GPD figures quoted by the membrane manufactures are like the diesel emission figures VW give for their diesels. They are impossible to achieve in real life.

The GPD is a 24 hour period not 12 hours. The water temperature and pressure are optimum so the membranes work 'perfectly'. You are likely to struggle to achieve around half that quoted, even less when the incoming water temperature drops in the winter.

I believe that water is the most important element of your wfp tool kit. If you don't have it you can't work. If you don't have enough then you ratio yourself and you have no room for expansion/growth. So this is an area where you are better off having more water than you need right from the start.

The 2 of us 'struggled' for a few years with our 450gpd as we often had 1/2 full tanks to go out with on a Friday, and that was with my son working 4 out of 5 days a week. We needed the weekend to recover.

Yes, we could have added a second 450gpd ro, but we chose to go down the 4040 route when son in law joined us part-time. Now my recommendation to any wfp newbie (not meant as a derogatory term btw) is to go the 4040 route. For me if I'm on my own for the week is that I fill my tank and the water is replenished in the IBC tank in a few hours. When full the r/o is automatically shutoff so I don't have to worry about it.

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