Heater in a water storage bucket?

[Bryan89]

As to the water from your RO unit being cold, you 'can' run a combination of hot and cold water on the inlet of the ro unit to get your water up to about 80F. IME that is the best way to get rated output of an RO system and is even more effective than running a booster pump. The downside is that you can easily cook your RO membrane and DI unit if you go too much above 110F water and you have a much higher copper and TDS from the water heater than the cold water line.

HTH

Bryan

 

[Pufferpunk]

I am pretty on the $$$ about turning my tap to exactally 80-82 degrees, as I have to fill my FW tanks w/it. My problem was when making water to fill the whole bucket, I ran out of hot water for a shower... I also am concerned about the minerals from the hot watewr heater. Hubby solved the problem, by tying off the heater to the PVC mixing pipe.

Rod, the Jager heaters should turn off, when not submerged.

 

[softbal4]

i have never heated my water when doing a change...does it really make that much of a difference on a 20% change.

 

[Pufferpunk]

Adding 20% icey water (from my basement, mind you) would drop the temp in my tank, quite a bit!

 

[Papajin]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8513342#post8513342 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by softbal4
i have never heated my water when doing a change...does it really make that much of a difference on a 20% change.

I personally wouldn't do it unless you weren't adding it in all at once. If you were pumping it in over several hours I'm sure it would be fine.