Andrew Butler
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I'm curious as to the consequence of using RO water alone, if not why not and how to avoid using tap water
if on a water meter
Where, never seen any in domestic settings. Even using an 8bar pump you will be lucky to get better than 3:1 waste:RO, generally much worse.To get greater usage you need much higher pressure eg 50bar as used in commercial desalination plants.There are units on the market which will preform 1:
Where
They quote 1:1 on their web page, but 1:2.5 in the instruction manual.There is a unit that vertex make, it's called something like vertex puratek deluxe; they claim 1:1.
That's a bit naughty of them, I used to run the smaller 100 gpd unit, I did spend out as it was the only unit I could find at the time with auto flush and a pump, not only is my water hard as a rock but also very low pressure. Oh and I thought it performed a lot better than others on the market! I did also add an additional DI chamber after the unit to polish it a bit more.They quote 1:1 on their web page, but 1:2.5 in the instruction manual
1. If I'm honest I'm not understanding what you mean here!I use RO water but have made a couple of alterations to my RO unit