Tank contaminated help?

[Smurf]

If you want to flush and drain the tank out fully without taking the tank out of the van then you have 2 options as I see it.

Option 1.

Whatever side the outlet is park the van in a way on a slop so the tank can drain fully or even jack the van up maybe.

Option 2.

Use a wet vac and suck up the remaining water out of the bottom of the tank.

As mentioned before I would also check that there is no foreign object/dirt in the bottom of the tank that could increase the ppm

 

[Smurf]

Sounds very odd to me why you can't resolve this simple issue.

I take it you are using a pucker tds meter like this HM Digital TDS-3 Handheld Meter With Carrying Case http://www.daqua.co.uk/testmeters.htm

and not a cheap copy from fleebay?

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[♠Winp®oClean♠]

I'm not convinced the tank is the problem. Even if the bottom of the tank had some bits in it a TDS meter only measures "dissolved" solids anyway. I would seriously check your TDS meter first.

 

[Vinny vin]

Yes use a handheld tds, I've now jet washed my empty tank and still high ppm I've replaced my resin that comes out which has lowered my reading to 003/005 ppm. Water in the tank is still at 80ppm I'm about to change my resin on the other vessel that fills the van up so hope that will work and over time the ppm inside my tank will improve . It's puzzling me to be honest.

 

[Smurf]

Like I said before forget about using twin di's before the tank. Just fill the tank with tap water from now on and connect the 2 di vessels in-line after the wfp pump.

 

[♠Winp®oClean♠]

Like I said before forget about using twin di's before the tank. Just fill the tank with tap water from now on and connect the 2 di vessels in-line after the wfp pump.

Smurf's bang on here Vin. I've lost track of how you go about thing on your set up & where the 80ppm is coming from. Do you realise that a DI vessel can output water with a higher TDS content than is input when the resin is very spent? Or are you saying that even if you fill the tank with just tap water NOT via the DI that it still comes out at 80ppm?

 

[Vinny vin]

Yes even with my normal tap which goes between 18/34ppm average in its 20's when put directly into the open tank comes up to 80ppm.

 

[Vinny vin]

/emoticons/smile.png/emoticons/smile.png/emoticons/smile.pngThe good news is I've now used Milton in my tank, neat thick bleach in my tank, I've jet washed my tank and have now replaced both di vessels with mixed bed resin. After all this the water is coming out pure again : ). And the reading inside my tank has gone down from 80ppm to 41ppm so I'm hoping by the end of the week with the pure water now that should improve back to normal. Back to work for me tomorrow

 

[Vinny vin]

Thanks for all the help and advice guys if you lot ever in Brum I'll beer u fellas a beer/emoticons/wink.png

 

[Smurf]

Thank god for that /emoticons/biggrin.png

 

[Vinny vin]

:thumbs::thumbs:Smurf ur a legend that's all I can say.

 

[Smurf]

Thanks /emoticons/wink.png