Tap water

[Ray]

Actually, RO drinking water tastes terrible! It rapidly absorbs carbon dioxide from their air, forming a weak carbonic acid solution with a pH of about 5.3, which tastes sour.

Most folks buying my systems for residential driniking and cooking add a "pH stabilizer" (calcite) inline cartridge to the delivery line.

[greenpassion]

Originally Posted by burz

Thank you. R/O drinking water would be great to! Might start treating myself as well as my plants if I go semi hydro lol. I'm super pumped to get it going. Its been on my mind almost as much as baseball this week.

I'll start referring 'to Rays page before I ask questions that have been answered already. Thanks everyone for your patience, experience, and links.

Burz, if you don't have a ton of orchids, an RO countertop system is really convienent. All my orchids (27) are in S/H, and Ray recently created a portable countertop system that I hook up to my kitchen sink. I kept the plastic gallon jugs that had RO water I'd bought from a drug store, and I store my now 'home made' RO water in them. It's so much better than buying jug after jug of water and hasving to lug it all upstairs every week. !

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Hmm. I find no taste what so ever in RO water. It has no flavor. ??

[burz]

How long does it take you to fill your jugs?

[Ray]

Originally Posted by burz

How long does it take you to fill your jugs?

That's going to depend upon your water pressure and temperature.

The membranes used in the counter-top systems are rated at 50 gallons per day @ 20 psi and 77°F. If your at-the-tap water pressure is higher, it is likely to be higher at the membrane, too, even though the tubing will reduce it some, but colder water reduces the flow.

50 gpd is about 1/2 cup per minute.

[Joseia]

Originally Posted by burz

How long does it take you to fill your jugs?

I also bought Ray's countertop RO system. It takes me about 10 minutes to fill up a one gallon jug. I have definitely seen an improvement over the past two months using the RO water.

[greenpassion]

Burz, it takes about 12 minutes to fill the gallon jugs, but my case is, I am fairly sure, this is really unusual. My guess is that for 'normal' water systems, it's WAY faster. Here Vt , I have 2 gravity fed well houses up in the woods, and NO booster pump for the house, so, the water pressure is Soooo slight. I've been here in my house for 30 years, and am quite used to it, but others might not accept this situation. Anyway, with the booster pump, that most folks may not need, it's sooo much faster. Get this. Before I got the pump, it took 18 HOURS to make ONE gallon of water!! It literally dripped out of the tube, into the jug! Ray was really surprised, and of course, helped me out the choice of booster pump. He's been invaluable in my learning about all this. Don't know where I'd be without him