is this a good ro/di buy on ebay?

[twkenny]

Take it from someone who has been the FilterDirect route. Don't do it. It's not worth the hassle down the road. Those crappy DI chambers are worthless.
Spend a bit more up front, save money down the road with a normal unit. Bryan at www.purelyH2o.com is a sponsor here and always offers support to anyone who asks. He's got a greay product that comes with the stuff you'd have to pay extra for from the strictly ebay vendors. He's even offering a 10% RC discount if you use the coupon code RCDJB8HL.
There are several high quality units available, but why not support a sponsor who offers support to everyone here?

 

[NicoleC]

If you are trying to save money, a good quality RO-only drinking water unit will work nicely. Then in a month or two, get a DI add-on (around $25) to complete your system.

This will be much cheaper than buying a poor quality unit and then buying *another* unit in the future.

A good shop will include adapters and tubing and other items you need to have a complete system. If you don't get the adapter you need, they find one and send it to you. A low-bid shop will be a bare-bones package, and then you will spend time, gas money and more money buying the parts just to get it to work.

 

[ReefMeister2]

Ahem!

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=619925

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[lastin1]

No No NO! You MUST get a AWI Typhoon 3 or all hell will break loose.

 

[ReefMeister2]

The Typhoon III is actually a really nice unit, but my Neptune runs circles around it from a performance perspective. The Neptune is basically two Typhoon units conjoined, running in parallel (through dual/side-by-side 75 gpd RO membranes and three full-size DI stages)

Those of you who are purchasing eBay units beware....
Do you REALLY want to go down this road just to save a few bucks???
I can think of nothing more important than your water quality, whether it be for your health as drinking water, for your reef tank, or both. Purchasing a water filtration unit (and no doubt CHEAPEST crap filters)from a questionable source such as an eBay vendor is just plain nutts IMO. That's like buying oxygen for your dive tanks from the local .99 cent store!

If you want to "low-ball" something, for goodness sake don't do it on your water quality!

Good luck none-the-less

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