Chappy1351
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I sold my office which is where I was making my RODI water. My house has a well and the water coming in is terrible. Is there any way to make good RODI water from a well? Can I add any more filters to my RODI unit?
Well water, into to RODI
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The issues we have here in the Texas hill country is sediment, C02 and high TDS. Not all the TDS is bad. but......
I would set up a filter system for your house. 2 ea big blue type 5 x 20" sediment filters. A 5 micron and a 1 micron. Then a 5 x 20" carbon. This will help your rodi unit and your drinking water.
I would run a 4 or 5 stage rodi for the tank and use 3 additional resin filters. 1ea cation , 1ea anion resin followed by 1ea mixed bed.
I would set up a filter system for your house. 2 ea big blue type 5 x 20" sediment filters. A 5 micron and a 1 micron. Then a 5 x 20" carbon. This will help your rodi unit and your drinking water.
I would run a 4 or 5 stage rodi for the tank and use 3 additional resin filters. 1ea cation , 1ea anion resin followed by 1ea mixed bed.
Sure don't see why not assuming your well water is drinkable and not some toxic sludge. 
Pressure maybe a concern - but a booster pump will fix that easy enough.
You can add DI resin in various combinations after RO for what you need - lots of good BRS vids on RODI and best use cases. Their online store has good breakdown too. But then again, you might be fine with what you have. Run it, test it and see.
May have more sediment - may not - so changing pre-filters more often maybe needed. Won't need to worry about chloramines so basic charcoal filter is probably fine.
Pressure maybe a concern - but a booster pump will fix that easy enough.
You can add DI resin in various combinations after RO for what you need - lots of good BRS vids on RODI and best use cases. Their online store has good breakdown too. But then again, you might be fine with what you have. Run it, test it and see.
May have more sediment - may not - so changing pre-filters more often maybe needed. Won't need to worry about chloramines so basic charcoal filter is probably fine.
My tds meter is arriving today, but I think my water is fine coming out of RODI. Likely because we have a big water treatment system all household water goes through first. I'd look into that so it'll improve all of your water, not just your RODI.
Chances are you will be extremely high in co2. That alone will kill ur di cartridges (1/3 will be exhausted ever 200 gallons). Like me you will be probably have to setup a degassing station. Very simple to setup. Mines is just a 50 gallon container with an air stone in it to introduce oxygen.
Phyber
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So once you have the RO water in this container, how do you out it thru DI? Can you post pics? I just gave up and accept the 002-003 tds water that exhausted DI gives me :/ I don't have any storage space for a big setup.
It doesnt have to be big. A degassing towers is possible too. Takes up a lot less place, but harder to get up and running. I run a maxijet with an rodi reducing attachment to push it through the di. Gravity works too but powered works faster. All i do to degas is run an airstone in the container for 24 hours. My tds drops from 7 to 2 before di; reads 0 after.
Degassing container is on the fridge to the right
Degassing container is on the fridge to the right
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