C02 in ro/di water

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I have a community well for water n have been burning thru di cartridges. I ordered a c02 test kit from spectrapure n my test results are 50 ppm. What is a acceptable range for co2 ? I'm assuming it's the lower the better. I'm gonna try areating the water n see how much it comes down
 

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Certainly sounds like high CO2. I seem to recall that each ppm of CO2 is equivalent to a PPM of TDS. So that's like putting 50ppm water into your DI cartridge. That will run it down in a hurry.

I have high CO2 in my well water also. I degas my RO for 24 hours and my DI lasts for quite a while now. I get 1 ppm out of my RO.
 

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