Ro water vs Filtered water

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Tech_and_smoke

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I've been having good success just using britta filters believe it or not. Little expensive over time but works. Point is: The water isn't the potential problem, the pH and what it contains is.
 
Failmore

Failmore

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Define bad tap water? Having hi ppm tap water does not necessarily make it bad. Depends on what is in it.
 
NukaKola

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Tech_and_smoke said:
While true, I've found that the Brittas take out the vast majority of dissolved solids. I'm usually showing about 10ppm after running it through.
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My Brita only takes my tap from 440ppm to 310ppm and that is with a new filter. It doesn't produce near enough water for my needs either.
 
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NukaKola said:
My Brita only takes my tap from 440ppm to 310ppm and that is with a new filter. It doesn't produce near enough water for my needs either.
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Fascinating! Not sure what to say... it's not actually Brita I don't think but it's a like-brand. Either way, I've seen mine drop from 120-240 to ~10-40 many times. Luckily, most of what we've got in ours is calcium carbonate and that's honestly about it. We had an issue with lead at one point but the filters I've used always seem to knock that out when I test the water afterward.
 
Buddernugs

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Most places do not use chorine anymore...they use chloramine which is a solid you can fill a bucket and let it sit out a whole year it’s not going to evaporate you have to filter it...chloramine is a lot harsher than chlorine and iv found it leaves a film on root balls that no amount of drip clean will wash away ro filters can be had for 100$ I got mine for 150$ with a whole set of spare filters...besides tap water has been tested at multiplayers labs and found it contains low doses of pharmisuticals and hormones...also fluoride is fucking horibal for you...ask yourself why did the nazis use it in their death camps?
 
CikaBika

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Tech_and_smoke said:
I've been having good success just using britta filters believe it or not. Little expensive over time but works. Point is: The water isn't the potential problem, the pH and what it contains is.
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I found some info about my tap water
ph is 7.6 but it raises to 8.6 after 24h

salinity - 0 (µS/cm)- 804 mg
CaCO3 - 294,6 , °D - 16,5
This means it's on 3/5 level of hardnes..
There is soft , light hard, medium hard (mine) hard, and very hard..

TDS (mg/L)- 459

@TintEastwood I order this..

5-stage water treatment filter, drinking water filtration system, drinking water filter, household water filter system, drinking water filter system : Amazon.de: Home & Kitchen

5-stage water treatment filter, drinking water filtration system, drinking water filter, household water filter system, drinking water filter system : Amazon.de: Home & Kitchen
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J232

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I tried my tap water with a hard water micro, didn’t work, de chlorinated threw a filter didn’t help at all. 250 out of the tap forced me to grab a stealth RO setup. I didn’t try mixing other then the odd topup near the end due to being lazy. One of my better buys next to the chiller.
 
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Renfro

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TBH most nutrient recipes can be adjusted to compensate for the tap water. I recently started using my 180 PPM tap water and made minor changes to the cal/mag portion of my feed. Otherwise it's the same feed and works just as well as it did with RO water. I just got tired of having to change the pre-filters / membrane. When I stopped running the RO filter my water bill dropped to about 25% of what it was with the RO filter.
 
ҖҗlegilizeitҗҖ

ҖҗlegilizeitҗҖ

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Caliverner said:
That's cheap for a system
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Works great so far, and has good reviews. 6 stage filter, reads 0 on my tds meter. I have one line ran to my reservoir, and a second line ran up to a faucet and storage tank in my kitchen sink for drinking water.
Went on their website and bought a bunch of the 1st stage filters because they're cheap, and one replacement of each of the other ones and that wasnt too expensive either.
 
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