Tap water TDS
- Thread starter DMBillies
- Start date
Angela Short
New member
Wow, Mine just tested 104. Lowest its ever been. It ussually runns in the 140-160 range and has been over 200 a few times. It can vary daily it seems. I guess depending on the water comming into the treatment plant??
Buckeye Hydro
.Registered Member
Numbers between 100 ppm and 400 ppm are pretty common...
Russ @ BFS
Russ @ BFS
Pickupman66
New member
165 here between Smyrna and the Boro.
crumbletop
New member
Mine is about 140. What ever happened about that fitting you were having trouble with?
DMBillies
Active member
Thanks for all of the readings. It would seem that my 140 is not so bad. I was asking because the amount of waste water I'm making is about what the manufacturer stated (3.5-to-1) and my output per day is working out to right about 50 gpd, but I thought 140 sounded a little high and would have expected more waste.
As far as the fitting, they shipped me out a new one priority mail the morning after I realized the problem and e-mailed them about it (8:10am). It got here Friday and I hooked it up yesterday and started making water. Don't know what the problem was with the first one (scored O-ring?).
As far as the fitting, they shipped me out a new one priority mail the morning after I realized the problem and e-mailed them about it (8:10am). It got here Friday and I hooked it up yesterday and started making water. Don't know what the problem was with the first one (scored O-ring?).
ocd_mariner
New member
Mine was 154. The filter from the fridge tested out at 152.
Looks like its time to replace that filter
(at least it better be)
Looks like its time to replace that filter
(at least it better be)
crumbletop
New member
As far as I know, fridge filters add stuff to the water in addition to taking out some stuff. You shouldn't expect it to have a lower TDS.
Pickupman66
New member
I agree on the fridge filter. mainly just a carbon type filter for taste. Today my water is at 182 tds. WOW. amazing how it fluctuates. the ammt of waste water really is not any indicator of how high the tds is. really just the flow for the ro membrane. you can lessen that ratio, but it will wear out your membrane significantly faster. My membrane is a bit wierd. it will still flow water thru when I have the flush open. go figure. reading between ro and di is 4 to 6 tds.
