The waste doesn’t bother me honestly, I don’t pay for the water. I know that’s kind of scummy to say, but it is what it is lol. I just want to get something that will get both chlorine and chloramine and lower the TDS. I don’t care if it doesn’t get everything completely out besides the chlorine and chloramine, all I’m really worried about. The system uses 35 gallons and I really don’t want to fill buckets at the spring lol
Lucky being on a well lol. Why did you completely cut the ro out? I’ve been reading people mix 3/4 ro and 1/4 well/spring water.
This is sage advice.
my well is pretty low EC 0.2 and has lots of Ca too
I’m wondering how it’s going to go for my grow. I’m thinking I’ll do half and half but my water is around 800. I honestly don’t know what I should do.
Yeah, ours is at 803 today when he checked for me.
Just got a call back from my village supply department. He said they use chlorine, no chloramine at all. He said they get a ppm value of .08
Care to elaborate? There's about 25% available elemental Calcium in the total feed with Jacks321. I don't understand the reason to want to add more and worsen the already good nutrient ratios of Ca:Mg?
is that 800ppm ? (can't be that high) or 0.8 EC?
I’m sorry man, he did say .8 ppm. I asked if he knew the TDS or EC and told him I was getting advice on a reef tank about everything and asked if that was close to 800 PPM and he said he had no idea. Now, you have to understand, I live in a bum fuck nowhere town in upstate NY. We don’t have the most reliable / acknowledgeable supervisor here. I know the gentleman and he is pretty obvious to anything but they only use chlorine and got a reading of .8 ppm something (roll eyes). We have incredibly, and I mean incredibly hard, hard water. You have to scrub everything every couple months or you get a buildup in your tub and sinks. My folks live a couple miles away on a well and have a softener. It doesn’t really help that much. I feel like I need like two pre sediment and carbon filters on the cheap before I even let it get to the RO setup lol. I just think in my situation I’d be better starting out closer to zero and figuring out what needs to be added as I go.
phew! ok, 0.8 is way better!!!! you can go up to 5ppm and still be safe for plants/humans.
That’s what my buddy was getting a reading out of his sink water. So he gave me a meter reading and the supervisor gave me a .8 something. I’m going to say considering my buddy has a bluelab MONGUA guardian and seems reliable, I’ll take his reading as what it is.
Didn't say anything about "Jack's 321" never used it, don't know anything about it.
System will use 30 gallons to fill just under half way on the net pots. It’s two craftsman 10 gallon totes and a 30 gallon control bucket. I won’t be using that much but I really would rather just buy a RO setup for the convenience.
So do you think the hydro logic stealth-RO150 would be enough o combat 800 ppm and chlorine? Should I use prefilters too?
hold on for a sec; you keep saying 800 ppm. i thought the chlorine ppm was 0.8 ppm??
that's what i'm saying! a pencil would stand up straight in a glass of water i think . lol
