How often do you change carbon blocks?

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How often are you guys changing your rodi filters? Carbon and etc?
 
Largely depends on your input water. My city uses chloramines and I replace my first carbon block every 2 months and my second one every 6 months.
 
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I go through a lot more water than most but your local water makes a huge difference as far as longevity is concerned.

I go through sediment filters monthly and generally change carbon at the same time since I might as well.
 
~5-6 months. i change sediment and carbon both at the same time. The membrane once a year ~11-12 months

To me, RO is something you do not want to go cheap on. its the "first line of defense"
 
Largely depends on your input water. My city uses chloramines and I replace my first carbon block every 2 months and my second one every 6 months.
Mine does too, and its been more than 5 months since i changed mine and im getting brown jelly, somebody suspected that this could be the cause as icp test and my testing didnt find anything
 

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