RO/DI Unit Quality/Price

[jjwill_sdsu]

Perhaps someone has a little experience insight with this. So I have seen RO/DI units in the $200-$300 range with not all that impressive flow (24 or 50 gpd), for example - the Kent Maxxima unit on Dr's F&S site. On the other hand, I have seen units from a site recommended on other threads (the Filter Guys) for half that price with about the same if not better features... or even a completely decked out system that's still less than the name brands. My main question: Is there something to the more expensive units that I'm missing such as quality of construction, better specs, etc.? Or are most RO/DI systems with a given set of features on par with each other and I'd be mostly paying for the name with that extra $150? Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

 

[mr_x]

i believe R.O.D.I. units are just a series of plastic chambers. the quality is in the filters. i bought mine on sleaze-bay, for 100 bucks shipped, and i'm getting 1ppm TDS out of it.

 

[aquaguy24]

corallife pure flo 2..50gpd $155 shipped...very happy with it..ppl recommend u get a unit with about 25-50gpd so the water moves slower through the filters which give u better quality water...

 

[mjweber]

I got my RO/DI system on this website called Air-water-ice or something like that, for a really good price, its a 5 stage, 75gpd system with the float switch and all the tubing and a free TDS meter. anyhow the whole thing was like $155 shipped.

 

[aquaknight]

Pretty much paying for name. The little guys buy straight from the manufactures and assemble themselves. The large companies like Kent have to subcontract out to somebody to built the units for them and slap their badge on there.