They still produce the same amount of spot free water, but you can make them last longer because you can use the bypass to use regular water for parts of your car wash and then switch to filtered water for your final rinse. If there is no bypass your using the filters the whole time. So even though the filters will produce the same amount of spot free water, you will be able to get more car wash's out of it because you control when you use it
Hi Josh. Thank you very much for always uploading content it’s very appreciated and informative… I want to know from you’re years of experience or anyone else that would want to comment on this matter… I just started detailing cars at home, I notice that my garden hose under pressure it looks like it’s gong to explode, I have it connected to Ryobi 1800, and my question would be what kind of hose should I run? What brand? Those it matter? Does it have to be high psi resistance? Hopefully you or someone could comment back I would really appreciate it. Thank you 🙏 and Happy thanksgiving’s to all.
I’ve had my CR Spotless system for about three years and it works great, since I just wash my own cars I don’t go through a lot of resin, great to have options, thanks Josh 👍😁
ive been debating a di system. weekend warrior.wash two cars per week. will the resin go bad quicker if it sits and not used everyday? id use it for final rinse, garden hose pressure
@ I don’t wash my cars as often as you do but I use my DI water basically from start to finish, the main reason is even though I wash first thing in the morning I’m in direct sunlight and my tinted windows spot terrible if I use straight tap water, for me the resin lasted me about two years before I changed it out at 15 to 20 ppm, I’ve never had the resin go bad from water sitting in the tanks, I also have the duel tank system, hope this helps you
Finally someone who reviews this, i have asked Bigboi multiple times for videos and they never responded. Customer service sucks with them. Thank you Josh
I run the water drop Di system with the internal bypass and love it. It has one valve and a robust stainless steel by pass pipe. On initial hook up no leaks. I did add a carbon filter to prolong the life of the resin cartridges and overall love the performance of the system. The quality of the water drop DI system is stout. Highly recommend this set up.
The carbon filter is actually a good addition. It doesn't remove any desolved solids, but it does pull the chlorine out. Chlorine will eat up your resin and shorten the life. I've been running an inline RV carbon filter just to try and preserve the resin. I have high chlorine and around 500ppm of TDS. The resin be struggle'n in my garage.
Good to hear your experience on that! I know a carbon filter can really help the membrane on an RO system, but I wasnt sure if it really helps prevent break down on a DI system
You should be able to just put the carbon filter on the right side and the other DI cartridge on the left and have the inlet on the right and the outlet on the left. The only variable Could be the TDS Meter probe locations
I live down here in rosirito and my ppm is around 650 to as high as 720... I use the griot's single tank mixed bed deionizer. It recommends 13lbs of resin. My first round only lasted for 3 final rinses before it was already at 20ppm. So I added 2 more pounds of resin to the tank and the next round got me 20 final rinses before it went to 20ppm. Hard to believe that little bit of resin makes that much difference but it does I'm on my 6th round and the results are very consistent. So there is a tip to all you DIY people like me..
Josh..the Carbon filter is for saving your DI resin which hates chlorine..want your di resin to last even longer Get a RO filter..flow is reduced so that's why you don't see it in most applications but a holding tank would fix that issue but much cheaper Di water setup longer term..
So carbon first, into an ro filter into a holding tank, then into the spotless. The holding tank needs to send water too tho, so unless it's really gravity fed are you using a pump on that or is the reduced flow when the water is actually moving enough to do that?
@Calihan so there are many routes to get to a solution but the cheapest way would be source water to carbon filter to RO to holding tank with a Hudson float valve...then ideally you'd have a pressure washing capable of pulling it's own water so typically a bit higher end machines ar630, kranzle, active 2.0 and above....when you add RO to the system it drops water supply below what you would want to holding tank solves that issue...now your DI resin lasts a year instead of a month
When you did a lot of Mobile Detailing with your van do you fill your tank up with deionized water or do you just use other products like water spot remover and drying aids to combat mineralized water? The Doug Demuro nod at the beginning was funny. 😂 Love your videos Josh. Cool that you're a fan of Doug's.
Keav has a good youtube on carbon filter in front of the resin and how it extends the life of the resin. I bought a $400 Envig carshine 817 includes 2.6 gpm flow, bypass, tds, stainless etc and put a charcoal filter in front. It's incredible but not wall mountable but super cheap/easy resin replacement.
Great info. But the issue with the water supply depends where your source comes from. If it was on the opposite wall than there would be no need for all that pex piping.
Josh! Very informative, I enjoy your videos. I thing I'm gonna pick this up. Are the resin cartridges reusable? can you fill them up with resin bought elsewhere?
Josh V. Thank you for your info. you have helped me a lot im just a DIY'r that washes my cars every weekend. Question I have been thinking about getting the Adams DI system. I live in the OC Fullerton CA, and my water is around 415-440 when I have tested. How long would that system last me? I dont want to be buying resin all the time. what is the best option for. Thanks
How do you deal with cold temperatures on the pex setup? I was concerned so ended up using a hose based setup direct from bib, so I can disconnect from wall mounted kranzle between uses in winter!
What’s the parts list to use pex piping like the connections? I wanted to do that and I saw all the different sizes and thread styles kinda confused me when I got my bigboi deionizer in. Lol
why didn't you just flip the base of the filters where are they screw on if you want it the hose to be on your right instead of your left all had to do just take off all 12 screws from the bracket and flip the base it around.
I’d like your take on the CR Spotless with the bypass. Keav did a review and didn’t love it, because it restricts the flow. I really don’t understand why that is a problem. He wants maximum flow. Can you provide feedback?
Sometimes if the flow isn’t enough it can let water through that hasn’t been filtered which mean you won’t get 0ppm… if that’s the flow I think you are referring to. Im planning on going to cr spotless though and I’ll find out
Yeah I know I wanted to do that, but I also don’t want to waste the water/cartridges… I’ll see if I can do something like that though… have to be careful on CA hah, I might get fined for too much water usage
I’m curious, everything appears to be mounted to the bracket with screws. Couldn’t have you inverted the filter canister in the reverse order to obtain your desired water flow needs?
@ Keep the order. Invert the wall mount. You would unmount all three filters from the wall mount. Put the bypass now on the front side of the canister. Turn it all around. Bring the monitor to the back side. Then remount the filters back to the wall mount. Then attach to wall. You haven’t change anything but the logos now face the wall.
Yeah that makes sense to me too, but I did call and speak with BigBoi and they said it needs to stay in that order. Maybe because of the TDS Meter sensors?
@ I reached out to them because I had questions about my setup and no one responded. It’s all good though because I’ve moved onto another solution for spot free water.
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But the ones with the bypass get a whole lot more is that right?
They still produce the same amount of spot free water, but you can make them last longer because you can use the bypass to use regular water for parts of your car wash and then switch to filtered water for your final rinse. If there is no bypass your using the filters the whole time. So even though the filters will produce the same amount of spot free water, you will be able to get more car wash's out of it because you control when you use it
@@imjoshv how did Keav get over a thousand gallons out of his I’m new at this
@@gearlstrickland3365his water is lower TDS to begin with
@@coreybell6398 thank you
Hi Josh. Thank you very much for always uploading content it’s very appreciated and informative… I want to know from you’re years of experience or anyone else that would want to comment on this matter… I just started detailing cars at home, I notice that my garden hose under pressure it looks like it’s gong to explode, I have it connected to Ryobi 1800, and my question would be what kind of hose should I run? What brand? Those it matter? Does it have to be high psi resistance? Hopefully you or someone could comment back I would really appreciate it. Thank you 🙏 and Happy thanksgiving’s to all.
I’ve had my CR Spotless system for about three years and it works great, since I just wash my own cars I don’t go through a lot of resin, great to have options, thanks Josh 👍😁
ive been debating a di system. weekend warrior.wash two cars per week. will the resin go bad quicker if it sits and not used everyday? id use it for final rinse, garden hose pressure
@ I don’t wash my cars as often as you do but I use my DI water basically from start to finish, the main reason is even though I wash first thing in the morning I’m in direct sunlight and my tinted windows spot terrible if I use straight tap water, for me the resin lasted me about two years before I changed it out at 15 to 20 ppm, I’ve never had the resin go bad from water sitting in the tanks, I also have the duel tank system, hope this helps you
@@GetOuttaDodge1the resin go bad quicker when you :
1.have higher tds
2.use a lot of water per month
Finally someone who reviews this, i have asked Bigboi multiple times for videos and they never responded. Customer service sucks with them. Thank you Josh
Nice Doug Demuro intro
Loved the "THIS is the...." and "Quirks and Features" intro!!!! Nicely done!
Haha thanks
I run the water drop Di system with the internal bypass and love it. It has one valve and a robust stainless steel by pass pipe. On initial hook up no leaks. I did add a carbon filter to prolong the life of the resin cartridges and overall love the performance of the system. The quality of the water drop DI system is stout. Highly recommend this set up.
The carbon filter is actually a good addition. It doesn't remove any desolved solids, but it does pull the chlorine out. Chlorine will eat up your resin and shorten the life. I've been running an inline RV carbon filter just to try and preserve the resin. I have high chlorine and around 500ppm of TDS. The resin be struggle'n in my garage.
Good to hear your experience on that! I know a carbon filter can really help the membrane on an RO system, but I wasnt sure if it really helps prevent break down on a DI system
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
You should be able to just put the carbon filter on the right side and the other DI cartridge on the left and have the inlet on the right and the outlet on the left. The only variable Could be the TDS Meter probe locations
I thought that right away!!
I feel the same way
I live down here in rosirito and my ppm is around 650 to as high as 720... I use the griot's single tank mixed bed deionizer. It recommends 13lbs of resin. My first round only lasted for 3 final rinses before it was already at 20ppm. So I added 2 more pounds of resin to the tank and the next round got me 20 final rinses before it went to 20ppm. Hard to believe that little bit of resin makes that much difference but it does I'm on my 6th round and the results are very consistent. So there is a tip to all you DIY people like me..
I like carbon because it remobes chlorine, and it's good for the resin to have the chlorine removed.
I would encourage people to also check out filter systems at their local lowes/home depot/etc. It's all the same thing.
Josh..the Carbon filter is for saving your DI resin which hates chlorine..want your di resin to last even longer Get a RO filter..flow is reduced so that's why you don't see it in most applications
but a holding tank would fix that issue but much cheaper Di water setup longer term..
So carbon first, into an ro filter into a holding tank, then into the spotless. The holding tank needs to send water too tho, so unless it's really gravity fed are you using a pump on that or is the reduced flow when the water is actually moving enough to do that?
@Calihan so there are many routes to get to a solution but the cheapest way would be source water to carbon filter to RO to holding tank with a Hudson float valve...then ideally you'd have a pressure washing capable of pulling it's own water so typically a bit higher end machines ar630, kranzle, active 2.0 and above....when you add RO to the system it drops water supply below what you would want to holding tank solves that issue...now your DI resin lasts a year instead of a month
From RO to DI tank should be in there then to holding tank...sorry
Another honest review. Good stuff Josh. I want 760 gallons per minute!! Haha
When you did a lot of Mobile Detailing with your van do you fill your tank up with deionized water or do you just use other products like water spot remover and drying aids to combat mineralized water?
The Doug Demuro nod at the beginning was funny. 😂 Love your videos Josh. Cool that you're a fan of Doug's.
I would kill for a set up like you have there Bigboi is a good looking system Josh have a good and safe Thanksgiving
Thanks so much. You too!!
Keav has a good youtube on carbon filter in front of the resin and how it extends the life of the resin. I bought a $400 Envig carshine 817 includes 2.6 gpm flow, bypass, tds, stainless etc and put a charcoal filter in front. It's incredible but not wall mountable but super cheap/easy resin replacement.
Each cartridge has 4 screws. You can flip it. There will be some logistical things the tds sensor and bypass reorganized.
Great info. But the issue with the water supply depends where your source comes from. If it was on the opposite wall than there would be no need for all that pex piping.
Josh! Very informative, I enjoy your videos. I thing I'm gonna pick this up. Are the resin cartridges reusable? can you fill them up with resin bought elsewhere?
Should run a 90 off the Flexzilla hose side for a cleaner look. Agreed that set up way Cleaner.
I actually ended up putting a split on the outlet so it’s two 45s.. that m way it helps the angle and I still have access to the tap if I need it!
@@imjoshv I was talking at the Big Boy inlet side.
Awesome insight
You can use a fire extinguisher wall mount for the Adam's system that's the way I have mine Envig.
Great idea!!!
Josh V. Thank you for your info. you have helped me a lot im just a DIY'r that washes my cars every weekend. Question I have been thinking about getting the Adams DI system. I live in the OC Fullerton CA, and my water is around 415-440 when I have tested. How long would that system last me? I dont want to be buying resin all the time. what is the best option for. Thanks
Hey Josh, so which one is better, big boi, cr diw-20 or on the go dual bed?
My ppm is about 350
Great info but how much are the filters? It looks great just hope it performs the way you need it to perform!! Thanks again!! Happy Thanksgiving!!
Around $70 which is right in line with other brands
@@imjoshv thanks!!
How do you deal with cold temperatures on the pex setup? I was concerned so ended up using a hose based setup direct from bib, so I can disconnect from wall mounted kranzle between uses in winter!
you coulda spun the mounting bracket around to eliminate your "quirk" or mount it on the other side of the garage😂
What’s the parts list to use pex piping like the connections? I wanted to do that and I saw all the different sizes and thread styles kinda confused me when I got my bigboi deionizer in. Lol
why didn't you just flip the base of the filters where are they screw on if you want it the hose to be on your right instead of your left all had to do just take off all 12 screws from the bracket and flip the base it around.
Nice cameo. 😂
I’d like your take on the CR Spotless with the bypass. Keav did a review and didn’t love it, because it restricts the flow. I really don’t understand why that is a problem. He wants maximum flow. Can you provide feedback?
Sometimes if the flow isn’t enough it can let water through that hasn’t been filtered which mean you won’t get 0ppm… if that’s the flow I think you are referring to. Im planning on going to cr spotless though and I’ll find out
Are the wall mount holes 16 inches apart for stud mounting?
Don’t know if it was a glitch or not, but I was only charged for my WashR pro and shipping. No sales tax
was hoping you hooked up some hoses and sprayed both until the meterswent above 30ppm to see what one ran out quicker
Yeah I know I wanted to do that, but I also don’t want to waste the water/cartridges… I’ll see if I can do something like that though… have to be careful on CA hah, I might get fined for too much water usage
I’m curious, everything appears to be mounted to the bracket with screws. Couldn’t have you inverted the filter canister in the reverse order to obtain your desired water flow needs?
That was my thought as well so I reached out to bigboi and they said it has to go in that order… maybe because of the sensors on the TDS meter?
@ Keep the order. Invert the wall mount. You would unmount all three filters from the wall mount. Put the bypass now on the front side of the canister. Turn it all around. Bring the monitor to the back side. Then remount the filters back to the wall mount. Then attach to wall. You haven’t change anything but the logos now face the wall.
You should be able to flip all of the filter mounts around so it reverses the inlet and outlet.
Yeah that makes sense to me too, but I did call and speak with BigBoi and they said it needs to stay in that order. Maybe because of the TDS Meter sensors?
Just flip the bracket
@@imjoshvall you are rotating is the bracket
Am I the only one that thinks it looks really cluttered?
The active wall mount/hose reel definitely looks cleaner
What's the height?
I just wash my car with distilled water now. My tap water is 500ppm
My tds meter said my water is at MSNBC levels... fml
Doug? 😂
Josh looking like a cholo today
CR Spotless customer service SUCKS!
Really? They are local to me son I haven’t had any issues but I have the ease of being able to go there
@ I reached out to them because I had questions about my setup and no one responded. It’s all good though because I’ve moved onto another solution for spot free water.
Bro are you paying for all these bots in the comments?