Water Deionization at home/workshop

**JOGARA** · 06-04-2018

Originally Posted by Clive S

In our location if you are on a meter we are charged per cubic Mtr for water from the meter and then get a bill for the same amount for putting in down the drain.

Ohhh shit is that how they work it out?

Makes sense. What ****s xD

Ill take this system over to my grandmother's house. They are not on meter there so can run 24/7...

**Clive S** · 06-04-2018

Originally Posted by JOGARA

Ohhh shit is that how they work it out?

Makes sense. What ****s xD

Ill take this system over to my grandmother's house. They are not on meter there so can run 24/7...

Or has been mentioned get a humidifier and kill two birds with one stone.

**JOGARA** · 06-04-2018

Originally Posted by Clive S

Or has been mentioned get a humidifier and kill two birds with one stone.

More £££ in electricity than it is worth.

The garage stays really dry even with all this rain. Helps that the air compressor sucks up said moister....

**Desertboy** · 06-04-2018

Recover the water and feed it through again with a water pump and tank.

**JOGARA** · 06-04-2018

Originally Posted by Desertboy

Recover the water and feed it through again with a water pump and tank.

Wont that eventually clog up the filters?

**Desertboy** · 07-04-2018

Originally Posted by JOGARA

Wont that eventually clog up the filters?

Discard the last 20% of water and the issue is slight but just using a higher pressure pump will give you much better efficiencies even without recirculation.

Water with a TDS of 0 is very corrosive it's not really suitable for long term storage as it will leach from containers, I'm not sure a TDS meter would even detect plastics leeched as they are detecting the conductivity of the water (Salt levels).

The other thing to consider with filter life is the input water. Not sure what you're tap water readings are but I get an EC of 0.4 out the tap in Leicester, in London it was 0.8 and in Sterling Scotland we were getting an ec of 0 out the tap!

So a filter in London is not going to last as long as one in Leicester and in Sterling it'll probably last for years.

Cost is only one part of the equation of course and even if it cost the same as buying distilled water there's inherent value in being able to process at home and you're water is probably purer then bought water which has sat in plastic leeching for god knows how long.

We were using RO for hydroponics and Aquaponics so plastic leeching was more of an issue for us for most users it's a non issue.