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  1. Buckeye Hydro

    RO Filter housing

    https://www.buckeyehydro.com/ro-membrane-housing/ We also have the kind with quick connect fittings and a pressure gauge port. Russ
  2. Buckeye Hydro

    Boil water notices for hr Houston and surrounding areas

    If you increase the flow rate, you'll reach the chlorine capacity quicker. Not something that can be calculated - has to be done in a lab to generate the empirical data.
  3. Buckeye Hydro

    Boil water notices for hr Houston and surrounding areas

    Assuming you are using city water with chlorine or chloramine, UV after the RO system is probably best.
  4. Buckeye Hydro

    Boil water notices for hr Houston and surrounding areas

    Roger. Well - these systems are intended for use with "microbiologically-safe" water - meaning water w/o microbes. With city water, that is typically accomplished via the presence of residual free chlorine. So if you are being told the water delivered to your house may contain microbes...
  5. Buckeye Hydro

    Boil water notices for hr Houston and surrounding areas

    Looks like we're tagged somewhere in the thread - what can we do for whom? Russ
  6. Buckeye Hydro

    Washing Machine to RODI Connection

    You can find all of them here: Feedwater Fittings
  7. Buckeye Hydro

    Triple Inline TDS Meter TRM 1-HM Digital vs Titanium S3 Digital Inline -Auto Aqua

    Battery will need to be replaced at some point. Periodically make sure your probes are aligned correctly in their tees. Can you recalibrate? Yes - and any adjustment to the potentiometer affects the calibration of all there probes simultaneously. Russ
  8. Buckeye Hydro

    Triple Inline TDS Meter TRM 1-HM Digital vs Titanium S3 Digital Inline -Auto Aqua

    Great to see you are using a three-probe meter rather than a two-probe meter. TDS meters are simple devices - and there is not much you gain by going with an expensive meter. This is the opposite for pH meters. inline monitors
  9. Buckeye Hydro

    Seeking Ideas for Routing RO/DI Wastewater into Washing Machine Wall Drain

    Suggest you change the configuration of your system so that you don't have horizontal DI stages. They should be mounted vertically, with bottom-> up flow through each. They should be packed tightly so there is no free/empty space in the cartridge. Russ
  10. Buckeye Hydro

    Washing Machine to RODI Connection

    Better yet Feedwater Fittings Get the brass hose bib splitter and the BRASS hose bib adapter.
  11. Buckeye Hydro

    RO DI lines outside

    Yes - the UV will destroy the tubing. One thing you can do is run your tubing inside PVC pipe, or inside 1/2" PE tubing to shield it from the sun. PE Tubing
  12. Buckeye Hydro

    Changing RO membrane

    Please tell us what your THREE readings are: TDS of tap water: ? TDS of RO water: ? TDS of DI water: 0 Are you making these readings with a TRM1 inline triple probe TDS meter? After you rinse up a new RO membrane, TEST the TDS of the RO water before you start sending that RO water to the DI...
  13. Buckeye Hydro

    Changing RO membrane

    Don't run the RO membrane rise water through the DI. Russ
  14. Buckeye Hydro

    Changing RO membrane

    Seems to be some confusion... The OP is talking about rinsing NEW filters when they are first installed. You're talking about a flush valve on the concentrate line that operates AFTER filters have been installed, rinsed, and are operating normally. Two different things. Russ
  15. Buckeye Hydro

    Changing RO membrane

    Rinse up that dry membrane for 10 minutes.
  16. Buckeye Hydro

    Changing RO membrane

    Well, were your membranes wet or dry when you installed them? Plumbed in series or in parallel? It's good practice to dispose of the first 10 minutes of DI water out of a new cartridge.
  17. Buckeye Hydro

    Reverse Osmosis questions.

    Hi Rick - did we talk on the phone today? I believe we did. Russ
  18. Buckeye Hydro

    My water sucks

    Will RO filter out bacteria? Yes. Is an RO membrane designed to be 100.0% perfect in filtering out bacteria? No. In fact, manufacturers also state that the product is intended only for microbiologically safe water. Will bacteria laden water foul an RO membrane? Absolutely. Russ
  19. Buckeye Hydro

    My water sucks

    I think I see where the confusion is. First, TDS (in ppm) is derived arithmetically from a conductivity measurement. So your TDS meter is really a conductivity meter that applies an algorithm to estimate the amount of dissolved solids. Second, because the solids in the TDS measurement are...
  20. Buckeye Hydro

    My water sucks

    Not sure I'm following you here. You can have high tss but little tds for instance. Think for example about ground water coming from a granite aquifer. Might have only 50 tds, but might clog a sediment filter quickly because it has a lot of undissolved sand/silt/clay in it. Its not clear to...
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