Running ro/di over night?

[dylan p]

Do you think I'm alright running my 50 gallon per day ro/di unit into a 32 gallon barrel until 6 am?


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[Chefjpaul]

Hahaha.
I almost got a divorce over that when I was filling my tank, (even set alarm every two hours).

Flooded my living room. Hard wood floors saved me.

My rodi makes 5G in an hour. (75gpd).





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[Qube]

I run mine overnight regularly. You can always get a float valve for it so it will shut off once it reaches the desired level.

 

[dylan p]

That's really funny because my girlfriend fought with me about it for almost an hour.. She won probably for the best because I have laminate floors and they would be toast


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[Adamski]

I stick mine in the bath so at least of it runs over, it's in the bath!


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[dylan p]

But then il have 32 gallons of water in my tub.. My water changes are between 5 and 10 gallons a week


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[Animal-Chin]

Then why not get some blue plastic water jugs from the grocery store and re use those? they are 5 gallons each and fit in your sink. Easy to handle and not to heavy. All I ever use...

 

[Chefjpaul]

Then why not get some blue plastic water jugs from the grocery store and re use those? they are 5 gallons each and fit in your sink. Easy to handle and not to heavy. All I ever use...

+1.
I thought you were just filling a tank.

If your going to do it monthly, you'll want, as mentioned above, a float or some sort of relay.

Possibly a timer set up after you calculate your true GPD & consistent PSI?



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[Adamski]

I thought you were filling Jerry cans!


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[dylan p]

It's a big brute barrel I was using 5 gallon jugs but now I have this big barrel that I'm going to plumb into the aquarium for water changes that way all I'm doing is mixing my salt


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[willbratz]

I run mine outside. I change 12 to 15 gallons a week and it takes about 20 minutes for the water change, and about 1 1/2 hours to fill my two 7 gallon containers.


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[dylan p]

I live in Minnesota from now until March it will be in the negatives outside. I wish I lived somewhere warm but until then I have mine set up in the laundry room and I will probably get one of those hydrologic shut off valves


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[dylan p]

I think I'm going to go for it.. My girlfriends working so I'm just going to let it run all night and hope it doesn't over flow


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[Tobykourtney]

Go for it man. If your water pressure is anything like mine in North dakota your probably only pushing 30 gallons a day. I leave mine running overnight in a 15 gallon tub.

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[mr_X]

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[epaz]

Don't do it! I used to always think "oh yeah it will fill slow enough I will be all right" no way 3-4 flooded laundry rooms later I only fill while I can monitor it

 

[CaptainJugz]

Totally flooded my downstairs neighbors condo....twice!! I now put it in the bathtub as another has said. Even then, put a weight on the line, pressure spikes can flick the output line out of tub/ bucket.


JR

 

[Swicicki]

You will figure out what works after 3 floods


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