Switching from Pressure Tank to Storage Tank - Need lots of Help!

[outy]

This is the kit I have

https://www. ebay.com/itm/Aquatec-CDP-8800-booster-pump-SET-solenoid-valve-pressure-switch-RO-Water-NEW/201347377796?hash=item2ee13d2a84:g:H1EAAOxyu1BTkNsX

You want the better pump to be able to keep up with the pressure tanks demands.

It is also future proofing your set up.

 

[DreadCapn]

2. The water is usually acidic.

One of the primary reasons R.O. water is unhealthy is because removing the minerals makes the water acidic (often well below 7.0 pH). Drinking acidic water will not help maintain a healthy pH balance in the blood, which should be slightly alkaline.

This is a thing I know a little something about, so I wanted to point out that this is false. The pH of what we eat and drink has no correlation to our body's internal pH. OJ (pH 3ish) even has an alkalizing effect on your body's internal pH! https://vitals.lifehacker.com/no-foods-do-not-alter-the-ph-of-your-blood-1789963745

 

[outy]

This is a thing I know a little something about, so I wanted to point out that this is false. The pH of what we eat and drink has no correlation to our body's internal pH. OJ (pH 3ish) even has an alkalizing effect on your body's internal pH! https://vitals.lifehacker.com/no-foods-do-not-alter-the-ph-of-your-blood-1789963745

You failed to comprehend the article I put up

""Drinking acidic water will not help maintain a healthy pH balance in the blood""

Says the same thing as your linked article bud.

 

[ThaChad]

Change Of Plans

Change Of Plans

Okay, Change of Plans...

I bought this container today.... https://www.farmandfleet.com/produc...MIs-Xuj9rT1wIVXFcNCh3_eQtpEAYYASABEgLFj_D_BwE

It's a 20g Brute "Feed and Seed" can, that's opaque and it's BPA Free & NFS Certified. It was only $29.99!

I am going to keep my 20g pressure tank in place to feed my Drinking Water/IceMaker/Auto Top Off. I am going to install a float valve in the bin and the day before I am going to do a water change, I will fill the bin, hook up the line after my DI resin (Currently used to fill 5g Buckets) and fill the bin, only I won't have to baby sit it because it will shut itself off when full.

Then I guess I'll just fined some sort of small pump to pump out the bin to 5g buckets to do water changed.. That way I only fill the 20g bin when I'm going to do a water change, instead of having 20g of water sitting around. The ~12g in the pressure tank is plenty to keep the Drinking water/IceMaker/Auto Top off fed.

-ThaChad

 

[jamie1981]

Okay, Change of Plans...

I bought this container today.... https://www.farmandfleet.com/produc...MIs-Xuj9rT1wIVXFcNCh3_eQtpEAYYASABEgLFj_D_BwE

It's a 20g Brute "Feed and Seed" can, that's opaque and it's BPA Free & NFS Certified. It was only $29.99!

I am going to keep my 20g pressure tank in place to feed my Drinking Water/IceMaker/Auto Top Off. I am going to install a float valve in the bin and the day before I am going to do a water change, I will fill the bin, hook up the line after my DI resin (Currently used to fill 5g Buckets) and fill the bin, only I won't have to baby sit it because it will shut itself off when full.

Then I guess I'll just fined some sort of small pump to pump out the bin to 5g buckets to do water changed.. That way I only fill the 20g bin when I'm going to do a water change, instead of having 20g of water sitting around. The ~12g in the pressure tank is plenty to keep the Drinking water/IceMaker/Auto Top off fed.

-ThaChad

Good plan but isn't that what I basically suggested from the start :spin3:

If your tanks not to far why not just use a hose to pump the water to and from the tank so you don't have to use 5g buckets?

 

[oreo57]

drinking RO water is fine, drinking 0TDS RO/DI water is not recommended , but is usually fine if you eat a healthy balanced diet.

Fact of the day #1

Drinking absolutely pure water can kill you. All the water we normally drink – from taps, from bottles, from the garden hose – contains impurities which affect a property of water called tonicity. This is the ability of a solution to draw or repel water from ajacent solutions when separated by a membrane. Solutions that are hypertonic gain water, while hypotonic solutions lose water. Drinking water, which we usually think of as pure, really contains a whole mess of salts and sugars which make it slightly hypertonic. They also give water its taste. The cytoplasm in the cells of your body also have a tonicity. So, when they are exposed to hypertonic solutions, the cells themselves lose water and shrivel up. When they are in hypotonic solutions, they gain water, swelling up and bursting like a balloon. Absolutely pure water -with no impurities at all – is the most hypotonic solution. So, if you drink enough of it, your cells will start absorbing water. This disturbs the balance of electrolytes (electrically conductive ions) in your body. This is most seriously a problem in the brain, where water poisoning can lead to brain damage, coma and even death.

http://isciencemag.co.uk/features/fact-of-the-day-1/

After analyzing hundreds of scientific studies concerning demineralized or reverse osmosis water, the World Health Organization released a report stating that such water "has a definite adverse influence on the animal and human organism."

http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/nutrientschap12.pdf
https://www.aqualiv.com/reverse-osmosis-water-filter-health/

 

[ThaChad]

If your tanks not to far why not just use a hose to pump the water to and from the tank so you don't have to use 5g buckets?

My tank is about 20-30' from my utility room where my water system is.

I have a 1/4" line that runs from my RODI down threw the floor into my crawl space, over to my tank, back threw the floor and to the float valve in the sump.

-ThaChad

 

[ThaChad]

I’ve never neen a 20G trash bin, much less in clear (opaque), on top of that it is NFS certified and BPA free, So When I saw that, I said there’s no reson I can’t use that..

My tank/sump is 30’ from my utility room where the RODI is located. I suppose I could run a really long hose.. I’ve just been using buckets for soo long and it works, why reinvent the wheel?

-ThaChad