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has any one installed a reverse osmosis system | 22 comments (22 topical, 0 editorial)
Re: has any one installed a reverse osmosis system (3.00 / 0) (#1)
by pvale (pvale at pvale dot com) on Thu Apr 17th, 2008 at 10:07:06 PM MST
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I'm on city water, but the water here tastes like theyr'e pumping it right out of the river. I found out recently that the city's main well is only 500 yards from the river, and that's probably why. So, I bought a reverse osmosis system. Now, you need a minimum of 40PSI to force water through the reverse osmosis membrane, but it produces more water if the pressure is increase to 60-70PSI. So you are going to need a pressure pump if your captured rainwater is gravity fed or otherwise at low pressure. I have 70PSI city water pressure and the system will make it's 2.5Gal tank full of water in 2 hours.
I added a ultraviolet treatment lamp to the output water feed just to make sure.

http://www.fieldlines.com/story/2008/3/21/15257/8068

Is an earlier post when I was thinking about setting it up. Well, I did it, got some pictures but haven't gotten them little enough to upload them yet.



Re: has any one installed a reverse osmosis system (3.00 / 0) (#4)
by getterdone on Fri Apr 18th, 2008 at 05:32:07 PM MST
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i 'e' mailed you for those pictures, if you dont mind.
i would sure like to see them.
If I were smart I'd be dangerous
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has any one installed a reverse osmosis system | 22 comments (22 topical, 0 editorial)

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