DIY Deionized Water - ElementalMaker
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- Today were taking high TDS tap water - and purifying it down to 0ppm using reverse osmosis and deionization. LIST OF COMPONENTS USED BELOW:
- Softener (necessary if you have hard water aka high calcium and magnesium content): amzn.to/3xj02qE
- Whole house filter housings - I recommend a sediment filter before your softener or UV sterilizer, and a carbon filter as the last treatment step, so two housings in total: amzn.to/3wuhgBE
- 12 GPM UV Water Sterilizer (if you have bacterial contamination in your water): amzn.to/3zv5VD1
- Reverse Osmosis System: amzn.to/3iNCQgj
- Deionization Cartridge (not necessary for normal household use, I just wanted DI water for my workshop): amzn.to/3cGBjVG
- Carbon filter for 4.5x10 housing: amzn.to/3zwaHjE
- Sediment Filter: amzn.to/2TzzjYi
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LIST OF COMPONENTS USED BELOW: I appreciate your support if you are building a water system, as these affiliate links help the channel out.
- *Softener* (necessary if you have hard water aka high calcium and magnesium content): amzn.to/3xj02qE
- *Whole house filter housings* - I recommend a sediment filter before your softener or UV sterilizer, and a carbon filter as the last treatment step, so two housings in total: amzn.to/3wuhgBE
- *12 GPM UV Water Sterilizer* (if you have bacterial contamination in your water): amzn.to/3zv5VD1
- *Reverse Osmosis System*: amzn.to/3iNCQgj
- *Deionization Cartridge* (not necessary for normal household use, I just wanted DI water for my workshop): amzn.to/3cGBjVG
- *Carbon filter for 4.5x10 housing*: amzn.to/3zwaHjE
- *Sediment Filter*: amzn.to/2TzzjYi
The above components are what worked for my particular water source, however do you own research and consult a water quality professional before ever modifying and using a drinking water system.
One of my most favorite channels. Don't ever stop because what else will I do to free myself from dumbing down from everything else. Awesome stuff 👍
"DIY Demonetized Water"
I did not read the title of this video correctly the first time I saw it. :D
But somehow it would still make a little sense for a cool channel like this one with some cool stuff TH-cam does not like.
I read it wrong too
It didn't get demon'd either.
That would be the video on anhydrous ethanol. :)
@@Kenionatus :D
Extremely cool. Thanks for showing, will definitely install into my home when building it.
One thing lead to another and the end result is WOOHOO. Well done fella.
You've put more thought into your well water than we ever have. Here if we notice the water has a color to it we pour some bleach down the hole and call it a day. If it gives you the runs... well, you have the runs.
LOL now that's water with some punch!
This video came at the perfect time. I just bought a new home with well water and now I got a good idea of how I want to do it
Glad to give you some ideas 👍. I highly recommend getting a bigger primary sediment filter. I am going to swap out my small sediment filter for a big blue. That'll be the ticket. If you have any questions let me know, I love this kind of stuff
love the channel man! keep up the awesome content!
If you out saltwater into a freeze dryer, you get salt that's an extremely fine powder. Potentially useful for experiments.
Thanks for the tips. I'm trying to make my own deionized water for my soap and cosmetic making. Great video ElementalMaker!
Glad you found it useful! 👍
I'm glad I found your channel. I love chemistry so I'll give your videos a try. So far I've found a few other "The Extractionist" and "NileRed" so I'll be happy to add your channel to my list. There's quite a few things I want to see done that I they haven't explained yet and hopefully you do these. I actually just installed a UV, filter, and softener system simular to yours but for a client who has well casing issues allowing contaminated ground water into his system. The system I installed is a bit more evolved then yours but only because it needs to be until he gets his well casing issue solved anyway.
Nice water purification system!
Interesting video, but I'm only interested in making deionized water for my lab (wine chemistry). So. ,my approach is to deionize store-bought distilled water. I have tried, unsuccessfully, to do this by using a deionizing filter. The scheme is simple: use a vacuum to draw water from a gallon jug of distilled water through a deionizing filter, capturing the filtrate for use in making reagents. Unfortunately, this did not work. My store-bought distilled water had a conductivity of just 5 microSiemans/cm. After passing it through a deionizing filter, the conductivity INCREASED TO 30 microSiemans/cm. I would be happy to commiserate with anyone facing the same agenda
Great video! I enjoyed watching it very much :)
It is great to have flowing deionized water. I still use mine out of a squirt bottle in my little lab :D
Mexico makes great water purification systems and replacement parts for all major appliances.
beautiful video, well worth the upload. water can be just as cool as fire!
Awesome Brother!!!! I had recently been informed that truly DI water is non conductive..which ( being in construction my entire life) absolutely blew my mind..and I was trying to explain why to my buddy. . And said
" let's just 'TH-cam' it".. and your video popped up..great content 👌 👏. Thanks for helping educate the plebs..lol. and goddam ! Such an easy way of explaining it..great stuff!!!
Thank you man! Appreciate it and glad you enjoyed!
Nice. I am finishing up the repair of a jet pump. Your reference to the well just got me thinking about it. We buy from the US so we end up with items meant for that market. Jet pumps aren't that useful when you get mains pressure and the tank is above the pump set. Makes sense for wells though.
very informative. thank you 👍🏻
This was excellent! I have similar setup. I recommend you look into colloidal
Silver :)
EM, I could swear you had a lot more subs before, what happened? If not, then you aught to have a lot more subs with such great content!
I appreciate it Nicola! You may be thinking of AVE he has like 700k subs. I however just broke the 40k mark 👍
Fun fact, water actually dissolves inside itself into H- and HO+ ions. That blew my mind when I first learned that.
Actually its H+ and OH-. It's known as the autoprotolysis of water
what am I watching? how did I ended up here, idk but it seems like a good video bro, keep it going
Thank you.
Pure water is needed for lab use BUT in closed environments especially submarines the RO water actually fails to provide necessary calcium so diet supplements are needed. Drinking water at 150 - 300ppm should be fine and a lot cheaper.
Nice H2O work man! If you drink distilled water if leaches minerals from you body which is good temporarily.
You could try to flush kidney stones with DI water.
Great vid
There is a brand of stuff called Tulsion, I used it in 16Liter water purifier to clean external windows with a massive tooth brush. Just let it air dry and it never leaves streaks when done right. The water was always 0 until maybe 5000 liters. Its AU$200 for 25liter bag.
All I use the RO column for is the water for the fish, as the city water is pretty clean by me, Just have the 0.5 micron filter on the kitchen water, because that is where I get drinking water, so want to trap the sediment from the pipes, as there are still asbestos pipes in use here. Water is soft water, not much in the way of deposits, though water heater tanks all have a thin layer of silt at the bottom with time.
RO for coffee? I guess, but for a really smooth cup, use calcium carbonated (hard) water. Or sprinkle powdered egg shells (calcium carbonate) into the coffee grounds, and then brew.
Old cowboy trick to improve the flavor. It will help neutralize those acids that contribute to making a very bitter cup of coffee.
We in the reefing world have RODI filters for making 0TDS water in home. Flush your carbon filter with the membrane bypassed so all that carbon dust does not clog your membrane. You'll get a lot more life out of it that way.
Very good tip! Thanks for sharing!
You have a collagen water purifier too and a well thank you for explaining how it works does your water ever have a slight salty taste sometimes
The Culligan unit isn't a exactly purifier but rather an ion exchanger (AKA softener). Nope no salty taste I can detect.
I found your channel after seeing in the comment section of a ruby-synthesis video that an Italian youtuber stole your video idea. Glad he did or I wouldn’t have found you! Awesome video, you have the perfect voice for this sort of thing. Also fun project. One suggestion: replace those standard outlets with GFCI outlets (if they aren’t already GFCI protected somewhere down the line) to make them safer in case of a nearby water leak. Happy to subscribe 👍
Glad you found my channel and thanks for the kind words! The outlets you see on my workbench are all daisy-chained off a GFCI, so all is good there 👍
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I get deodorized water from work. I used to clean my cell phone I used to clean my granite countertops I used it to clean my wood It gets things so clean and it's spotless and streak free.
Deodorized water huh? Lol jk yes it's an excellent cleaner. I use it all the time for glass and automotive
Great video now do you make house calls to install that? .....lol just kidding
Very interesting
Helps if you rinse or flush out the filter good b4 hooking it up. Much less carbon to flush out. I have the same type with the clear housing and DI included. It came out 0.00 after 10min flush with a neutral ph.
pH is effectively meaningless at 0ppm. Any reading on a digital meter is a lie. 1ppm of nitric acid would floor your readings.
Brilliant... You have the radio voice.. You could sell me air 😀
Awesome video! I have a question for you. Does lab grade deionized water need to also remove the atmospheric gases that dissolve into solution? I’ve heard of people removing dissolved CO2 from solution with vacuum chambers, but haven’t seen it done in practice.
Thanks Michael! I am sure it varies from lab to lab, and the intended use of course, but I have never seen degassing of lab water (other than if the feedstock contained radon of course).
its the copper tube should have used stainless
Why do you say that? Copper shouldn't be affected by the UV
@@ElementalMaker actually, looking back on the video maybe is just vestige on the probe
@@ElementalMaker Copper dissolves, the ions increase the conductivity. If you want 'zero' ohm, use plastic for anything that comes after the resin.
@@DutchPhlogiston yeah the only things the di water runs though is 1/4 Pex line and a stainless faucet. I believe the original comment was regarding the copper tubes connected to the uv sterilizer.
@@DutchPhlogiston Can you explain the chemical proccess of copper dissolving in clean ph neutral-ish water? I'm not buying it. I can see it dissolving if you have acidic water with nitrates, but in normal conditions the copper in the water should not rise above ppbs (and I doubt even that). it should be as relevant as antimony leaching in stainless and PET (as well as plasticizers). I do not know what get leached from PEX (aside from plasticizers).
I thought super pure water was essentially an oxidizer. They use it in neutrino detection facilities if I'm not mistaken. I read an article about it... something along the lines of a wrench got dropped or left behind when they did some maintenance and ended up getting dissolved because the water rapidly leaches whatever it contacts.
your question is too complicated to answer here. You need to read in google. Basically pure water is not an oxidiser.
We have almost exactly that same Culligan system!
Yeah this one came with the house, but I'm taking it out to put in a 64k grain metered ironpro softener. The culligan is about 16 years old and pretty near its end at this point.
ElementalMaker Ah. Ours is about two months. It’s a good system, but as you are showing, it can be improved!
very interesting
Should have blown up a glass of water at the end. That would have made it exciting! Lol!
You are absolutely correct 👍👍
RO water will make yucky coffee. The minerals give water its pleasant taste. Take those out and the water will taste more astringent.
RO DeSalination municipal water plants actually have to add minerals back into the water so customers don't complain about the taste. FYI
Quite true, it took a couple days to figure it out but it did seem bland. Now I add a cup of tap water to the coffee maker with the RO water. Comes out to around 100ppm tds, and tastes great again.
So I'd watch out with those shark bites on the sterilizer output. They seal with an o-ring inside there and it'd be a good idea to check of the back of that o-ring is exposed to UV. If so, you'll have to replace them fairly often.
Yeah that's a concern of mine too. I believe with their geometry little if any light should be reaching the o-rings, but it's still something in keeping an eye on.
@@ElementalMaker Unless the sterilizer is poorly designed (like mine are), there should be almost no light coming out the fittings and that which does leak has been attenuated by inches of water. Careful with the PTFE being exposed to the UV, though. That's what turned Alex Jones into a batrachophiliac.
That "Fuck Yeah"! , threw me off a bit, but I gotta say I definitely respect a man who isn't afraid to use profanities. It's about time wr all got amped about water filtration, lol. But seriously that was cool. Respect my man
Should the UV bulb fail is there some sort of alarm to alert you to the situation? Seems like a very important component you wouldn't want to be without for any length of time.
We have the same sink in our basement!
If there's any dissimilar metals in the "deionized" loop, especially if they're in contact with each other, there's a certain degree of galvanic action that'll move ions into the water. it's a known issue in watercraft, and also oddly enough in water-cooling loops in performance PCs where you've got dissimilar metals making up the radiators and actual heat blocks on the CPU/GPU. It's why large ships will have giant sacrificial slabs of zinc welded to the hull, the zinc gets corroded in place of the steel of the actual hull. The effect is much more pronounced when the dissimilar metals are in direct contact, but it's not actually required that they are. So basically if you've got soldered copper joints exposed to water, or if you've got copper lines and that big stainless tube, galvanic action is going to strip ions off of something into the water.
DI is impervious to galvanic corrosion. Those metal ions are lazy bastards when there are no ions in the water. The most corrosive parts of his system are before the RO, but the water is still pretty well buffered with carbonates at that point and I'd wager the pH is in the 7.5-8.5 range, making the metal ions insoluble with the carbonates playing defense. Once past the RO, the electrolyte is too dilute to be appreciable.
Your examples involve thermal gradients and chlorides in their loops, whereas he has unidirectional treatment and filtration train with negligible thermal flux and chlorides.
Potassium 40 is my favourite isotope of potassium.
Is all the electrical devices including metal pipes grounded on a separate ground to minimize electromagnetic radiation?
Lol regarding the flags on your system. Unfortunately in this time (2022) it seems like our nation is not what we once believed it was. Thanks for sharing!
I have a water tank for rain water. Taste better than any other water.
You can more than rinse electronics in it. You can run electronics in it, for a while at least.
CMOS no likey hydronium.
What would make distilled water less "pure" than RO water? I mean, what dissolved solids make it through the boiling to the other side?
Distilled water typically has a resistivity of 2 Mohm, compared to 18.2 Mohm for completely pure water. It is probably contaminants leeching out of the actual distillation apparatus and various containers it sees before reaching the consumer. That's just my guess though,
the pipe from your pressure switch should by cut in half.. current configuration is considered a dead leg (6 pipe diameters or more is a dead leg)
I used to work at Intel and they used "ultra pure" water, it was said if you drank the stuff it could kill you by striping the minerals out of your body. Was always curious how it was made/processed.
It would take months
@@templebrown7179 That would make sense.
used to work for a boat radio manufacturer when I was young called Pearse-Simpson, the management had installed a skull and crossbones on the different sinks used to clean the boards with DI water....I later found out it was just a scare tactic from management in order to keep the employees from wasting the expensive water to rinse their lunch boxes or wash their hands.....
Cool hopefully I can get my meds cleaned up and washed of all the bullshit fillers and crap I don't like the extras thank you Mr. Mario
A few things regarding your setup. 15PPM coming off of the RO chamber is a little high. Ideally you want your water coming out of your RO chamber at half that. 5ppm or less is ideal. But if your RO output is hitting 10ppm or higher then something is going on. Your RO could be exhausted. But given the fact that you were still getting 2TDS after the DI stage and you mention it is well water. It could be a high amount of co2 in your well water is dropping the PH coming into the filter, causing issues. Your initial PPM is very high. It could also be chlorine or chloramines. Those eat through RODI quite fast. You want a good quality carbon pre-filter to help with this. BulkReefSupply makes a cheap carbon pre-filter that lasts awhile. Regarding co2, you could also offgas the source water before the filter. Or maybe your DI resign isn't the greatest. You want to run it through a two stage DI process for better results. Filter it through anion resin first and then cation resin second (or vice versa). Maybe even a 3rd chamber of anion/cation (mixed bed) and that should take care of your issue.
But definitely get a good set of sediment pre-filters including a good carbon filter before your RO stage. Especially because your well water comes in at ~450ppm, that is INSANELY high. And I'm guessing you have an iron/phosphate/sulfur source seeping in, or perhaps nitrates from farm runoff in your water table? It could also be silicates, they are very, very hard to filter out even with an RODI filter. There are a lot of contaminants carbon will catch that'll seep through RODI quickly.
Hi, great video by the way. A quick question can you drink the de-ionized water
I've heard mixed things about that. I don't see why not but some folks say it can almost 'burn' your mouth or throat pulling minerals out since it's so pure. I've tried a bit and had no issue so I don't know what's true or not
From what I have read, you can drink it as maybe an emergency solution, but is not recommended to replace "regular water".......
How about a video debunking the magnetic water softener sorcery?
Not a bad idea!
Sounds like Negan...keep waiting for him to pick up Lucille. 🤣
Do a DI water taste test!!!!
Tastes wet.
My heart dropped each time I saw the water in a drinking glass 😯 what is it used for in the kitchen?
Only the RO water goes up the the kitchen. It branches separately for DI use in my shop. RO is quite healthy for drinking water.
Ok that's right, forgot you had said you were dropping it to 15-30 for kitchen use and 0 for lab. I work manufacturing PCBs and we use DI to clean everything in our shop. And I've heard drinking DI will tear you up. Cool channel, you earned a fresh subscriber sir.
55 watts is not a lot of uv, my tanning bed lights are 5000 watts of uva and uvb and you can sit in there for 15-20 min
UV-C is a very different beast than a or b. You would look like a chernobyl victim if you sat in 5000w of UV-C for 15 minutes.
You should rinse your meter between tests.
So your current drinking water comes from an ion exchange bed? Aren't you worried about the high sodium levels? In the UK, if a water softener is installed, drinking water must be fed from the supply before the softener.
The amount of sodium is quite low, definitely not anywhere near an amount to cause health concerns. The Mayo Clinic had a good article on drinking softened water.
Mmmmmmm. WATER.
Just realized how many water boy references I missed
Fun fact they have deionized water systems just for car detailers that way they can do a final rinse and get a perfect 👌 shine
Love the DI car rinse systems. Built one about a year ago and it's made car wash days so much faster
ElementalMaker When I get my own house it’ll be one of the first things I put in, along with a custom wash bay. I have always hated hand drying my car after washing it.
@@zurbers8579 what I would give for a wash bay! Wish I could do that, but to bust up our old garage slab, install drainage, repour a slab, and then route water to the detached garage even doing it myself would cost 8k. I'll have to do it all slowly so the wife doesn't notice 😁.
Good idea however I would not drink pure RO.DI
They are drinking the 9ppm RO upstairs, not the 0ppm DI. I run my 15ppm RO through my Keurig, humidifiers, and pets' water fountain. Almost zero scale. Our municipal water is 560ppm.
@@templebrown7179 cool out of my tap tds is just around 125 to 250 depending on the time of year we have fairly good tap in my area
I agree, DI will "suck" the minerals out of you and plants, animals. If u drink DI always reconstitute with epsom salt or some kind of calmag. Our tap is 70-95 usually, my town is named "Bon Aqua" which means good water
Add a water structuring gizmo.
Would be water from a dehumidifier filtered true a paper filter sort of, coffee filters maybe, enough for a clean water version that would work for cleaning printer heads.?
Dehumidifier water will typically have quite a bit of dust in it. If you ran it though a good particulate filter, it would be quite pure.
@@ElementalMaker Thanks
My in laws have a well on the farm and they have a problem... the hot water smells like sulfur...curious what kinda issue it might be.
Likely hydrogen sulfide. Check this page out to try to determine source and fix. www.health.state.mn.us/communities/environment/water/wells/waterquality/hydrosulfide.html#targetText=Hydrogen%20sulfide%20gas%20(H2,in%20wells%20anywhere%20and%20be%3A&targetText=Produced%20by%20certain%20%E2%80%9Csulfur%20bacteria,reactions%20inside%20of%20water%20heaters.
I have gotten that crazy about water quality and then I thought I was drinking the best water on earth. Did you check the ph of your water after all of that filtering? Mine came up with 0 t.d.s. but the acidity was absolutely toxic. What is your water's P.H.? T.D.S isn't everything. Then you need to add electrolytes and minerals which are essential once you get to perfectly pure water.
The PH of pure water is 7. If you really had 0 TDS water it would have had a PH of 7, which is fine. It sounds like someone has been feeding you some fake science woo woo. You get all the minerals and electrolytes your body needs from food.
Is distilled water from Walmart good enough to dilute 12% Hydrogen Peroxide in half? Thanks.
Interesting video. 👍
Yeah any distilled water is fine for diluting hydrogen peroxide
@@ElementalMaker Appreciate the info. 😎
What is the purpose of the DI Water? Just for consumption? Why would you want 100% pure water for consumption? minerals in the water are not bad and do offer some benefit. I am referring to the well water not city water.
The DI water is just for use in my lab. Some experiments require ultra pure water. For drinking we use the RO water, which is typically somewhere around 20ppm tds. For tea and coffee I mix in a bit of the filtered well water for minerals and better steeping.
Former USMC Water dawg here, just for record having a super low TDS in you water And it starts to taste like peroxide. I prefer to stay around that 100ppm for drinking. But that's just me.
Much agreed. I usually add a bit of tap water to bring the tds up for drinking water and brewing coffee 👍
If you want more RO water and half the waste you can run 2 membranes. The salt water peeps are all into the RODI and I have found with the water softener you will only deplete one of the two resins. I have even recharged my resin to prove I can. Check out Bulk Reef Supply on screwtube they have a bunch of videos on RODI.
My water is so hard I have to run a Iron Curtain then a soft water, out to my 2 stage cartridges and it is at about 450 to 550 TDS. Then out to RO and it will go down to 30's. If I want zero I have to DI it.
Man likes his water....
what about flouride?
When we take the TDS meter with a grain of salt... Like 1 grain per gallon? Or liter?
Well, hardness grains are usually grains per gallon, equal to around 17.1ppm, so that's my vote. When in doubt, cut the atoms in half with a suitable Xacto and only add the left ones to the water.
My exacto is dull. It tends to just strip off the electrons, so I have to keep an Ion it.
Wish you'd done a taste test. I use 18 megohm water at work and it tastes terrible. Pepsi and Coke add salts to their R.O. water to make them acceptable.
RO water tastes very good. But I grew up drinking it, so I probably have unusual preferences. I've never had DI water, so I don't know if it's good or bad.
Thats pretty awesome. How much did the whole setup cost?
Somewhere around $150 with the extra Deionization cartridge and an extra pack of 1/4 quick connect fittings. Pretty damn cheap for how much I use it. Still getting around 13ppm at the kitchen tap, and 0ppm at the DI tap, and haven't changed a filter yet.
@@ElementalMaker That's badass! And not nearly as expensive as I was expecting. I recently started thinking about if it may be a good idea to set something up so I can clean/deionize water on my own as opposed to buying distilled water at the store (and sometimes even deionized water online for like $8/L, which is ridiculous).
Thanks for posting this, I will definitely use it if I move forward on a setup myself.
What would be cool is to have something actually test the water _as_ it finishes running through the system. Like a digital gauge/meter showing the PPM, as opposed to testing it every so often. But maybe that's just overkill.
@@jhyland87 Oh man $8 a Liter! Ouch! I'd definitely go this route over that. Also they do sell inline TDS meters just like your describing. I am actually working on a larger DI system for washing my car since my high TDS water leaves horrible spotting. The meter I'm using shows both inbound water TDS, and post treatment TDS. Just look up 'HM Digital inline tds meter', that's the one I bought.
@@ElementalMaker That sounds awesome! I'm a nerd that likes data, so I'd probably meter the quality before/after each stage in the system just to quantify how effective each step is (or I'd half ass it and move onto the next project...).
Really enjoy your videos man, keep posting them. I'm seriously jealous that you got that O2 concentrator as well, I've wanted one of those for a bit. I want to set up an N2 and O2 system where the N2 gets concentrated and the "waste" (which is mostly O2) gets sent to the O2 concentrator/purifier, then any of the "waste" (mostly N2) from that gets sent back to the N2 concentration/purification system.
Pool supply stores have nice 2in to 3 inch clamps for holding hose and shit to your garage walls .might work for that filtet
PVC straps like for conduit. 3in ID straps / clamps would probably work.
I heard somewhere that absolutely pure water is bad for people. I makes your cell membranes explode (but don't quote me on that - I'm not sure if I remember it correctly)
I've heard that as well. I don't know how true it actually is though. I may have to try drinking the DI water and see if there are any effects
Got a list of items used? Here In Texas we have really bad calcium levels. Causes stones. But would really like to do this for future use. Kidney stones hurt like hell. Thanks for your time in putting this together. So appreciate it.
Hey Ross, give me about ten minutes and I will add a list to the description. Very good idea, I should have done that from the beginning.
Hi Ross, just added the component list to the description, and pinned comment. Thank you. If you have any questions just message me and I can try to help
Why would you choose reverse osmosis when distilled is already 0ppm? I buy it already deionized for 0.88/gal...
Because I can make an unlimited amount at home for pennies now... Plus I was already putting in RO for the kitchen.
Doesn't copper leach into soft oxygenated water?
Maybe toss a sign on that De-ionized spigot to indicate that it is not potable. You don't want to be drinking that much.
It won't hurt you. On submarines they drink distilled water for long periods. The small difference from distilled to DI makes no difference biologically. Maybe if its all you drank every day and also were starving to death, it wouldn't be good.
You can get UV stabilized pex now
Still will break down over time. I have used UV stable PVC with a 9w sterilizer and it crumbled after a couple years.
Pex is not the same as pvc
Of course not, but they're both UV stabilized the same way.
Doesn't copper have antibacterial properties as well?
That's brass
@@MrRedeyedJedi And copper, silver, gold, platinum, unobtainium...
I dont have a softener. I have a water conditioner. I have a potassium permanganate tank. My system is more fun!
It’s called a flow switch bro
Dang i thought i had hard water. im at 180 ish where i live
p/n's and prices please of the r/o 3-tank set and the follow-on filter
They discontinued the exact one I got, but just search expresswater ro system on Amazon and you'll find all the same stuff. I'll link that and the DI cartridge below
RO water system: amzn.to/2JfNw7R (affiliate link for full disclosure)
Inline deionization cartridge: amzn.to/3kBFWlv (affiliate link for full disclosure)
My water from the tap is 8ppm lol one of few good things about central pa
Wow that's unreal! Better than most purified water!
I have an ro/di system in my house for my salt water reef. Using that water regularly you will be going through filters at different stages. The best way to combat that is installing inline TDS monitors. I also write my pressure in and out of the sediment filter down on the wall so I know when it drops what to replace. I see that you already have a carbon filter on your main system. Then that water feeds to a sediment filter on your r/o system, then another carbon, then ro, then di. My system might be different, but wouldn't it be easier to simply remove the carbon filter and add another di resin chamber? Ie: sediment>ro>di>di? The di resin chambers in the canisters have to be cheaper than the one in that inline shenanigans. For reference I have a spectrapure system. Also check the pressure at your Ro, make sure you dont need a booster pump. My setup is extremely complicated due to floats and double shutoffs and separate ro and di storage tanks. I also have a post carbon filter after my bladder and booster before the spigot, however I dont have a uv sterilizer so it is required for taste. Also I have zero tds post di. Resin is changed at 5-10 depending on how much cash got reallocated to the beer and tool fund.
Thinkin its time to do a diy edm....
I think Ben over at Applied Science already built one 👍 I might give it my own twist some day though once I learn cnc programming a little better.
@@ElementalMaker as I'm sitting here watching my 3d printer, I'm seeing a carbon air arc rod hanging from the print head... it really wouldn't be that hard, very long time to machine something out in a 3d fashion, but it could definitely be done. Hmmm?
Can you tell what's the material used in DI filter?
It's composed of an anion and cation mixed resin. You can deep dive into it, it's a pretty impressive science.
@@ElementalMaker There is 001x7 resin also from China which is yellowish in color. I don't know if it does same thing.