Storing R/O Water
- Thread starter Chocobo
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Where is the barrel going? Garage? Do you have the height for 2 barrels? If so, you could do a setup I had running for a couple years. I built a sturdy wood platform above the bottom barrel #1 and had barrel #2 on the platform. The top barrel, #2, was the RO barrel and the bottom was salt. I had an iwaki pump connected to the bottom barrel for mixing the salt and also to pump to my tank for water changes. The top barrel was connected to the top of the bottom barrel with a valve so I could drain the RO in to the salt barrel, start making new salt, and then fill the RO barrel with the RO/DI unit. I also has an arm coming off that line with a valve so I could fill a bucket with RO. Lastly, I had a line coming off the output of the salt barrel that went 90degrees up about 2', then two 90s with a valve so I could fill a bucket with salt using gravity as opposed to the iwaki pump (would shoot out to fast even with valve due to pressure). Worked great.
Chocobo
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The R/O system and 55 Gallon storage tank is going in the utility room at my office. I plan on pumping the water out of the barrel into 5 gallon buckets and mixing the salt in the buckets. I have a circulation pump and header for each of my 3 buckets.
That said I do need a pump but an iwaki pump is overkill for sure - I don't need anything crazy but I do need something non-submerged that I can plumb PVC to.
That said I do need a pump but an iwaki pump is overkill for sure - I don't need anything crazy but I do need something non-submerged that I can plumb PVC to.
That's what I'm using, works very well.
I only run it to mix the salt, plus an additional 12-24 hours, and to transfer to the holding barrel, where is remains unheated and uncirculated.
