Booster Pump for indoor RO set up. Does anyone do this to good effect?

[PJ Bullard]

Does anyone have their RO set up indoors due to living in flats, as I do?

Just brought my RO yesterday, set it all up in the bathroom and connected it to the bath tap.

Flushed it out for 2 hours with a strong flow throught the waste pipe. Happy days.

Then once I connected the DI to the system, the end result was a tiny trickle of pure out the other end. Arrgghh! Water pressure inside my flat is low and not enough to push through a fast flow out the other side.

So, no good for me. Phoned supplier and was then told that I need a booster pump to make the flow come out 'a bit faster'.

I want to know if anyone on here has an indoor RO set up and do you use a booster pump effectively so that the end flow of pure is of a decent speed.

Im not going to name who I brought the RO from but I havent been impressed by them. They packed the wrong stuff, then claimed they hadn't, then tried to charge me to send the right stuff out next day! Couldn't believe what I was hearing.

Hense I want a second opinion about this booster pump for my indoor set up

 

[Dragbag]

Just getting a trickle of water, you have no anther option but to buy a booster pump. I get 1l of pure in about 1min 20 sec with a booster pump at 70psi. It dose still look like a trickle coming out the hose and in to the the water butt. But I only have a 450 gallon a day ro

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[johnny bravo]

i have one from purefreedom, Aquatic 8800, WCW have the similar ones, all around £110. you need one regardless. Aquatic are british made, keep them on around 4-8 hours.

 

[PJ Bullard]

Thanks for replies. I know I'm going to need one for asap next week. I've got jobs lined up with no pure ready to use

 

[johnny bravo]

what ro is it, it will prob take around 5-6 hours to get a ouple of hundred litres this weather. so you better get a couple of 220 litre garden butts to store it . otherwise you will get up one morning realising you forgot to put the ro on the day before.

 

[Dean Rogers]

i have one from purefreedom, Aquatic 8800, WCW have the similar ones, all around £110. you need one regardless. Aquatic are british made, keep them on around 4-8 hours.

Hello Johnny,

4-8 hrs on the Aquatic 8800 that sounds ok, I had a booster pump a few yrs back but had to put it on for 30mins then off for 30mins I was told to let it cool down, still burnt out after 4/5 months knackered the transformer.

My pressure is very low especially in winter it's hovering around 25psi with 40/21 hf5 membrane.

So that model is good for at least a few hrs running without a problem of burning out?

Cheers Dean

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[johnny bravo]

this is for the 300 / 450 RO systems

 

[Dean Rogers]

The trouble I have is the pressure is so low that the bigger pumps designed for the 40/40 & 40/21 systems needs a minimum 1.5 bar(21.7psi) pressure delivering the water to the booster pump otherwise the motor will suffer internal damage as it says on Gardiners site.

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[tommy15468]

Does anyone have their RO set up indoors due to living in flats, as I do?
Just brought my RO yesterday, set it all up in the bathroom and connected it to the bath tap.

Flushed it out for 2 hours with a strong flow throught the waste pipe. Happy days.

Then once I connected the DI to the system, the end result was a tiny trickle of pure out the other end. Arrgghh! Water pressure inside my flat is low and not enough to push through a fast flow out the other side.

So, no good for me. Phoned supplier and was then told that I need a booster pump to make the flow come out 'a bit faster'.

I want to know if anyone on here has an indoor RO set up and do you use a booster pump effectively so that the end flow of pure is of a decent speed.

Im not going to name who I brought the RO from but I havent been impressed by them. They packed the wrong stuff, then claimed they hadn't, then tried to charge me to send the right stuff out next day! Couldn't believe what I was hearing.

Hense I want a second opinion about this booster pump for my indoor set up

Mine only produces 25ltres every hour n half [emoji30]

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