Hi all,
I recently purchased a Unger Hydropower 6L for $1,700 and live in Alberta, Canada. Before purchasing the unit, I knew that my water TDS was 187, which is quite hard. I know it would eat through resin fairly quickly, but the distributor employee said it should still last 60 hours. At the very first job, the windows did not look good and it left residue even though the reading was 2 PPM. I ended up working in the dark until midnight re-doing work.
This evening, I completed a second job and the PPM reading on the unit was all over the place. It went from 5 to 49 to 32 and jumped everywhere from 10 to 55. I'm worried that I just wasted $1,700 and that the supplier sold me a unit knowing that it will not be functional in a city like Edmonton with hard water. I didn't want to spend $5,500 on an RO/DI system because I couldn't afford it. This is the second time in a week that I've had to redo my work because the water didn't dry properly. Hopefully, they will accept the unit back because the employee told me it should last 60 hours, but I cannot believe they would sell such a product in a city with an average TDS of 187 if this is the case. I have been using the unit with full water flow and switching from a 2-pencil jet small brush to a full rinse bar brush.
Any advice on this would be GREATLY appreciated! Any suggestions on affordable RO/DI systems if they do accept this system as a return?
I recently purchased a Unger Hydropower 6L for $1,700 and live in Alberta, Canada. Before purchasing the unit, I knew that my water TDS was 187, which is quite hard. I know it would eat through resin fairly quickly, but the distributor employee said it should still last 60 hours. At the very first job, the windows did not look good and it left residue even though the reading was 2 PPM. I ended up working in the dark until midnight re-doing work.
This evening, I completed a second job and the PPM reading on the unit was all over the place. It went from 5 to 49 to 32 and jumped everywhere from 10 to 55. I'm worried that I just wasted $1,700 and that the supplier sold me a unit knowing that it will not be functional in a city like Edmonton with hard water. I didn't want to spend $5,500 on an RO/DI system because I couldn't afford it. This is the second time in a week that I've had to redo my work because the water didn't dry properly. Hopefully, they will accept the unit back because the employee told me it should last 60 hours, but I cannot believe they would sell such a product in a city with an average TDS of 187 if this is the case. I have been using the unit with full water flow and switching from a 2-pencil jet small brush to a full rinse bar brush.
Any advice on this would be GREATLY appreciated! Any suggestions on affordable RO/DI systems if they do accept this system as a return?