How much does a resin saver help on the X-line X-tank RO system?

[Windowguy]

Is it worth spending an extra £400 to get a resin saver in the system? I live in a hard water area so assuming my resin costs are going to be £40-£60 per month.

 

[Part Timer]

What's your TDS and how much water do you use. My TDS is circa lower 300's and use a bag of resin a year using approx 6000 litres a month

 

[doug atkinson]

Resin saver system what is that!

 

[ched999uk]

Resin saver system what is that!

I believe it's a DI bypass that effectively bypasses the DI when you first start processing for something like the first few minutes. It's supposed to stop the high tds water that's been sitting in the RO from going through the resin when you first start processing.

I can see it's merit but not sure it's worth £400 - that's quite a lot of resin that needs saving to break even! It's just a couple of tee pieces, 2 solenoids and a little controller. Can't be more than about £70 in parts and a few mins coding of a little ESP8266 .

 

[Pjj]

I believe it's a DI bypass that effectively bypasses the DI when you first start processing for something like the first few minutes. It's supposed to stop the high tds water that's been sitting in the RO from going through the resin when you first start processing.

I can see it's merit but not sure it's worth £400 - that's quite a lot of resin that needs saving to break even! It's just a couple of tee pieces, 2 solenoids and a little controller. Can't be more than about £70 in parts and a few mins coding of a little ESP8266 .

You should be flushing the membranes for a few muinits before each fill so the standing water in the membranes shouldn’t be going into the resin .

 

[Part Timer]

I believe it's a DI bypass that effectively bypasses the DI when you first start processing for something like the first few minutes. It's supposed to stop the high tds water that's been sitting in the RO from going through the resin when you first start processing.

I can see it's merit but not sure it's worth £400 - that's quite a lot of resin that needs saving to break even! It's just a couple of tee pieces, 2 solenoids and a little controller. Can't be more than about £70 in parts and a few mins coding of a little ESP8266 .

We always unplug before DI until membrane gets it down to around 14, from 300+

 

[ched999uk]

You should be flushing the membranes for a few muinits before each fill so the standing water in the membranes shouldn’t be going into the resin .

I do flush but surely that only flushes the waste side of the membrane. I believe the DI saver effectively lets the water that has been sitting on the pure side of the membrane bypass the DI as it will have had 'tds creep' (if that's a term) i.e. the first few mins the pure side is diverted to waste.

I do flush my membrane - maybe not as long as I should.

I read up on it after seeing a vid on the X-Line system being installed - think it was squeeky clean Dave's brother. I don't think it's worth £400 to save a little resin.

 

[Pjj]

I do flush but surely that only flushes the waste side of the membrane. I believe the DI saver effectively lets the water that has been sitting on the pure side of the membrane bypass the DI as it will have had 'tds creep' (if that's a term) i.e. the first few mins the pure side is diverted to waste.

I do flush my membrane - maybe not as long as I should.

I read up on it after seeing a vid on the X-Line system being installed - think it was squeeky clean Dave's brother. I don't think it's worth £400 to save a little resin.

You might get a few cup fulls go into the resin but that’s about it , or that’s what we get with ours .

 

[scottish cleaning service]

How has no one invented an RO that then goes back into an RO to come out 000 ?

 

[tench0771]

i wouldent bother just stick to ro di un plug di for a sec till you get down to normal output tds having said that even if left pluged in it wont effect it that much

 

[doug atkinson]

I think what they are referring to is the DI Saver Controller by Spring.