Some of you may know that I have a terrible time making water. For those that don't know, here is a little background. Last I checked my well water going into the unit, the TDS was at 79ppm. As the membrane is aging, I am now putting 2ppm through the DI resin. Because of extremely high co2 in the water, my DI resin is eaten up in about 55 to about 80 gallons of water made up. The only suggestion that experts have been able to recommend to me is to bubble the co2 out for a day before I pass it through the DI...What a PITA that will be and will obviously require more equipment. So I am always thinking about ways to help myself out or save some money. I have been thinking a lot about buying DI in bulk like I currently do, but I am wondering if I should buy the resins separately.
My questions are:
Everybody I see uses mixed bed resins, which is cation resin and anion resin. Are these mixed at different ratios? or are they 50/50?
Does one resin deplete faster than the other?
I heard that after a resin is "full" or used up it not only allows incoming impurities to bypass, but it also can release what it captured. How true or extreme is this? and again will one resin release more than another?
My thought process is now to possibly extend my di resin change from over night to 2 or 3 nights! LMAO. I was thinking about using the cation resin separate from the anion resin and use more of one over the other if they exhaust at different rates. If I do this , I could re-charge (or ask Paul to recharge for me) easily. I currently don't want to mess with it, but may consider with some teaching from someone!
Someday I would like to get my water tested in a lab, but with sooo many things to test for, I would have no idea what to test for. I actually looked into Rutgers for water testing since I found a testing department in Florence which is close to me, but again, I have no Idea what to ask for!
My questions are:
Everybody I see uses mixed bed resins, which is cation resin and anion resin. Are these mixed at different ratios? or are they 50/50?
Does one resin deplete faster than the other?
I heard that after a resin is "full" or used up it not only allows incoming impurities to bypass, but it also can release what it captured. How true or extreme is this? and again will one resin release more than another?
My thought process is now to possibly extend my di resin change from over night to 2 or 3 nights! LMAO. I was thinking about using the cation resin separate from the anion resin and use more of one over the other if they exhaust at different rates. If I do this , I could re-charge (or ask Paul to recharge for me) easily. I currently don't want to mess with it, but may consider with some teaching from someone!
Someday I would like to get my water tested in a lab, but with sooo many things to test for, I would have no idea what to test for. I actually looked into Rutgers for water testing since I found a testing department in Florence which is close to me, but again, I have no Idea what to ask for!
I just can't win!