Attention All Coralife Pure-flo II Owners

efishnsea

efishnsea

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Originally Posted by Kevin34
So how long does it usually take to fill up a 5 gallon jug? Will you get more RO water than waste water?
Mine fills up a 5gal container in approx 2-3 hours
with city water pressure. Use a TDS meter on the final product to determine if what you made is pure!!!!! If not you need to change the filters or you have a malfunction
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efish :happyfish nsea
 
azaintcold

azaintcold

Member
It measures all the bad minerals etc. that are in the water in parts per million. Your RO/DI water should be zero. My tap is 370 ppm for example. It is a good tool to use to indicate when you need to change the filters in the RO/DI unit.
 
azaintcold

azaintcold

Member
Just do one on the big search. I have a typhoon reefkeeper and it came with it The company that makes the reefkeeper sells them.
 
kevin34

kevin34

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Well I tryed out my RO unit again and its still not working like people say it should. All I have are test strips so I tested the well water, RO water and waste water. Both the waste water and RO water were the same but they were better than the well water. Will these get the job done or do I really need one of those meters? Do you think I should exchange the unit for a new one?
 
prevwon

prevwon

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I just got mine set up today. I went ahead and made 10 gallons to discard. The waste water was coming out quite a bit faster than the RO water. Everything seemed to be working properly.
 
cvetnich

cvetnich

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the RO water should be a trickle and the waste water should be pretty fast..... It take's me about 4 to 5 hours to fill a 5 gallon jug...
 
kevin34

kevin34

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Could my wires be crossed? Because my water is coming out the opposite of what you are saying. My RO water is fast and waste water is slow. :notsure:
 
barchtruong

barchtruong

Member
Originally Posted by Kevin34
Could my wires be crossed? Because my water is coming out the opposite of what you are saying. My RO water is fast and waste water is slow. :notsure:
sounds like you have been having such a rough start with the RO unit heh?
I am fixing to get a 55gpd 4stages unit and you are scaring me!!
 
kevin34

kevin34

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Originally Posted by PrevWon
Which tube is closest to the membrane?
How can you tell? Both tubes are coming out of the membrane chamber. Should I post a pic of where to tubes connect to the membrane? One is raised a little higher than the other.
 
kevin34

kevin34

Active Member
Originally Posted by barchtruong
sounds like you have been having such a rough start with the RO unit heh?
I am fixing to get a 55gpd 4stages unit and you are scaring me!!
I wouldnt get too scared. So far I am the only person that I know of that has had problems with an RO unit.
 
kevin34

kevin34

Active Member
I still havnt got this problem squared away.
I have been emailing swf over and over but they keep giving me numbers to call and no one they tell me to call can help me. I told them this and asked for a refund instead of an exchange and now they wont return my emails.
I have no idea what to do about this. I dont think I can just send it back because I am over the 30 day limit due to all the numbers they told me to call instead of saying I can return. Should I just send it back anyway?
 
rslinger

rslinger

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I have one of these. First off how warm was the water you were running through it. To hot can wreck the membrain. Also I would suggest to find a place to hook it up and leave it because pulling the membrain out by the plastic thing in the middle will also wreck them very fast. They are 24 gallon a day so you should get a gallon an hour of good water. So 5 hours for five gallons. Cold water is really the best for the unit it's self. The waste water can be saved and dumped in you clothes washer or to water the plants. There are many other uses. Around here a new membrain is around $70.
 
J

jamparty

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i also use this and have had no problems with it. I leave mine running pretty much all day 24/7 and I have 3 separate containers about 14 gallons a piece that I pour excess RO water into. Between fans to keep the water temp cooler from the metal halides and calcium...I get a lot of evaporation, so I go through a good deal of water weekly. (that and we drink a lot of it too--->with the deionization canister)
It should be a steady drip though. A constant stream, and I'd be somewhat worried it was even filtering anything.
 
dawman

dawman

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I use this unit and depending on what GPD unit you have will determine how fast it will fill up a 5 gal bucket . Also the first ten gallon thing is for the break-in cycle . During the cycle the purified and waste lines will be running abnormal . After break-in the waste line should be running 3-4 times faster than the purified line . As you discovered , you really shouldn`t use a garden hose or use one that is made for high pressure . The membrane puts off a lot of back pressure and is why the hose had a bulge . Make sure your waste and purified lines aren`t crossed , if you are getting faster water from the blue line than the red line they are more likely crossed .
As an example my unit is a 24 or 25 GPD which is approx. one gallon/hour . I piggy backed a 75 GPD membrane and now with both going I get 100 GPD or approx. 4 gallons /hour .
 
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