Cheap water purification

[Cyclonite]

Just buy some 1" PVC and put a little filter on one end and load the pvc up with mixed resin...use what ever connections you need for the water feed and throw a valve on the end.

The longer the PVC and more resin you use the longer it will last....when used up just reload with fresh resin.

Nice cheap and effective.

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[marx2k]

If youve done this, can you post pre and post PPM readings of the water?

My RO system drops the incoming water from 225-245PPM down to 11-12PPM

 

[spiralsmurf]

make you use some kind of basic pre-filter otherwise your resin will be doing too much work, the filtering will be slow and you will waste a lot of resin.

 

[Cyclonite]

This is aimed at people with smaller purified water needs....the best way would be a carbon filter then prefilter....activated carbon is cheap there is many variations of this design. Personally I use a small home RO unit as my water needs are a little greater but I have used this system and it works, I just moved ill see if I can find it and post some pics.

The valve at the outlet is the flow restrictor, at the inlet place a small prefilter then fill up the PVC with activated carbon made for water purification then a small mesh screen. The resin would be placed after that.

It will end up looking like a couple pieces of PVC laid side by side with a connection at the end. If you choose not to use a carbon filter the life of your resin will be much less....but this isnt for the large water consumer right?

Just to clarify this is in no way a RO system...this is for people who cant afford one of needs are just much less. You can obtain 0 TDS with this no problem...but it wont last for large quantities of water.

Your RO should be putting out water in the 0-5 ppm range that seems too high...if you ran it through some resin after it would be 0 no problem.

 

[king_taco]

...not saying your idea dose not work, but for less than that resin stuff costs you can make a filter from walmart any not even have to mess with ebay...

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