bigbadbiddy
Well-known member
Howdy folks,
I run organic soil and am setting up to use a pressurized Blumat system for my watering.
It's a 22 pots, 5 gallons each, setup with the Blumats being fed through a pump+accumulator combo to keep the pressure the same at the end of the line as at the start.
The pump and Blumats are fed by a ~200 liter or ~53 gallon water reservoir.
I recently switch from well-water back to tap water as it got too tiresome to carry all that water around every week.
Problem is the tap water is horrible, clocking in at >7 PH and >1500 ppm (currently only adding PH down to it).
High time for me to get a RO system installed to feed the 200 liter reservoir.
I started reading into the topic and am beginning to believe that there are huge differences between systems. Since they range from ~50 bucks to 400 bucks +, I am having trouble to decide what I need.
I think the deciding factor here is how many liters a day it can filter/"produce"?
Hand watering at the moment, I required maybe ~30, let's call it 40 for good measure, liters every 2-3 days. The water reservoir is definitely very oversized but I will continue to water my veg chamber by hand and plan to get a generic water pump with a hose/spray lance to do the handwatering in the future (currently using ye olde watering can).
Plus, a large reserve can't hurt, can it?
Anyway, pretty much all systems I saw, even the cheapest, were able to produce (or claimed it at least) 20+ liters a day so shouldn't I be good with a very small RO system?
What else should I look for?
The RO system is going to be connected via hose/line to a sink in the adjacent room and feed the water reservoir. I was going to use one of those gadgets that cut the power when the water rises above a certain level. If that doesn't work, I was simply going to play around with a timer until everything fits.
Am I forgetting something?
Is a 20 liter a day RO system enough? Maybe i look for 30/40 liter a day to have some wiggle room?
Do I need to consider something else I haven't mentioned?
How do you decide between RO systems? What do you look for? Certain filter specs or the like?
Thank you for your time and help!
BigBadBiddy
I run organic soil and am setting up to use a pressurized Blumat system for my watering.
It's a 22 pots, 5 gallons each, setup with the Blumats being fed through a pump+accumulator combo to keep the pressure the same at the end of the line as at the start.
The pump and Blumats are fed by a ~200 liter or ~53 gallon water reservoir.
I recently switch from well-water back to tap water as it got too tiresome to carry all that water around every week.
Problem is the tap water is horrible, clocking in at >7 PH and >1500 ppm (currently only adding PH down to it).
High time for me to get a RO system installed to feed the 200 liter reservoir.
I started reading into the topic and am beginning to believe that there are huge differences between systems. Since they range from ~50 bucks to 400 bucks +, I am having trouble to decide what I need.
I think the deciding factor here is how many liters a day it can filter/"produce"?
Hand watering at the moment, I required maybe ~30, let's call it 40 for good measure, liters every 2-3 days. The water reservoir is definitely very oversized but I will continue to water my veg chamber by hand and plan to get a generic water pump with a hose/spray lance to do the handwatering in the future (currently using ye olde watering can).
Plus, a large reserve can't hurt, can it?
Anyway, pretty much all systems I saw, even the cheapest, were able to produce (or claimed it at least) 20+ liters a day so shouldn't I be good with a very small RO system?
What else should I look for?
The RO system is going to be connected via hose/line to a sink in the adjacent room and feed the water reservoir. I was going to use one of those gadgets that cut the power when the water rises above a certain level. If that doesn't work, I was simply going to play around with a timer until everything fits.
Am I forgetting something?
Is a 20 liter a day RO system enough? Maybe i look for 30/40 liter a day to have some wiggle room?
Do I need to consider something else I haven't mentioned?
How do you decide between RO systems? What do you look for? Certain filter specs or the like?
Thank you for your time and help!
BigBadBiddy
