extreme cold = bad RO production

[Gary Majchrzak]

a heads up from your's truly.

Also watch evap rates pick up. Extreme cold & dry air = furnaces working overtime.

 

[jdoenumber2]

A way i used to combat cold temps is to run about 50 feet of ro tubing coiled up in a bucket full of water. Small heater to warm in line teem for faster production rates. Hope this helps.

 

[toddmh]

I agree my RO is being very sluggish today

 

[716mer]

Never made the correlation, but my RO does appear to running real slow this morning. - Mark

 

[Dave VG]

Yep my RO has been very sluggish lately as well. Seem like it takes over an hour to fill my 5 gallon top off and mine is a 150 gpd system.

 

[spieszak]

If your in renter mode, and using a sink.... you can fill the sink with the hottest water you have and sink the extra tubing in it. Mines hooked up to my bathroom sink, and I use a butter knife to keep the excess tubing submerged. Warms the water a bit before it runs through the system. (depending on how much your doing, you'll have to rewarm the water at some point.) If I had more tubing it'd be much more efficient, but it still makes a noticeable difference.

 

[low riderr]

i run the ro line around my heat pipes like you would a heat tape . it dosnt warm the water up to bath temp but it is a lot warmer than that cold well water

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

I simply avoid making RO water when it's extremely cold

 

[spieszak]

I do this in the "winter" anyway, because I can see the difference. Here in the PNW we don't often get extreme cold... but the ground does get pretty cold, and I have a long run from the hookup to the house...

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

where

where

in the Pacific Northwest........ Are you in the states or Canada?

 

[spieszak]

Just outside Seattle