RO Vs. Distilled Water

catfish69hunter

catfish69hunter

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I didnt know the best place to put this thread so i put it here.

Ok heres the deal i have read on here how people have so much problems with standard tap water and people are buying RO units. Now these are great things but they waste approx 4 gallons to get one good one from my understanding. Now these RO unit all they do is remove the pollutents from the water and clean it up to the point that there is nothing other than the base elements of H2O in there, correct?

If all the above is correct then why not just distill your own water? 1) Its cheap to build a water distiller unit. 2) The water off waste is almost zero compared to the 4 loss to 1 gain of an RO unit 3) you can add filters to a distiller and it will be able to have the DI portion for much less of a pain. So with all this said why do people pay sooo much for an RO unit when a distiller can do just as good of a job with better results and for less money?
 
How much would it cost to distill 50 gal of water every day, vs filtering it?
I would expect the cost of natural gas to boil the water in the distiller to far outweigh the $100-200 to buy the R/O unit... and the run off form the R/O can be recaptured. In fact I have seen R/O's that re use the runoff water.
I have a 100 GPD R/O.. It really doesn't cost me anything to run, excpet for filter replacement... But I have a well...
 
See i have a wood stove in my back yard i use to make distilled water. Any trash boxes, paper or the likes i burn along with wood. i have myself a bonfire and can distill in one night of a fire about 50 gallons worth of water and i run it through filters and its fine. I have a plastic 55 drum and all the water goes in there. It costs me the water and thats it. I mean really is distilled that bad? I have heard people say not to use distilled but i have never had a problem.
 
It depends on what the still is made of and how clean you keep it.
They tend to clog and build up layers of scale on their interiors. This results in lowered heating efficiencies and occasional chunks of crud (lime scale) being introduced into the condenser. If portions of it are made of copper, there can be other issues. They can work well, but they are far from maintenance free and water quality will be a function of your willingness to work on it. That said, feeding your RO distilled water should give your RO membranes a longer lifetime and you *may* see less water going to waste.
 
See my Distiller is an easy one it starts with a Stainless Steel kettle that was sand blasted inside then cleaned. it has an evacutation tube out of the top of it and a sealable fill spout on the side. The spout was designed so i could fill while it was running because it has a one way nozzle in it. Now the steam from the still filters thru a tube packed with water hepa filters in line and it drips onto charcoal (just the stuff you get for the tank.) Then it drips into the colection barrel. its simple and effective enough to eliminate most of the contaminates. The only thing i have to change are the water filters and they arnt that expensive.
 
Note i know metal isnt cheap but thank god i work in the manufacturing industry my coworkers the kettle for me.
 
Yea i forget that every now and again. But in all honesty does anyone see aproblem with distilled and filtered water?
 
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