Help with drip system starter kit plz...

[davenmandy]

Looking into getting this done asap, exactly which filter did you use, the dupont whole house water filter, any one in specific? Planning to double my laundry sink tap, run it through the filter, then straight into the sump, anything else like a filter sock i should run it through in between? Also, you mentioned you out valves near the end for each of your tank, will doubling the tap for the laundry and running the hot and cold into the T be good enough to control the drip into the sump or do I gotta add another valve right before? Or did I misunderstand and did you just tap the water line near the washer without adding a valve at that point? Don't see how that would work to control the temperature, so you must have a few, but is that just for multiple systems?

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[West1]

Son of a.... how often do you change the drip filters, every other day or less??

No idea where I'm at as far as gallons/day but roughly 17-21K gallons/month. This is for 1200, 650, and 550 gallon systems that are on continuous drips.

Looks hillbilly but has worked fine for years.....

Drains for drips are all 1" which seems to handle 1/4" line wide open no problem.

I have 1" line running out from the filters along with the 1/4 line to fill tanks but it's still crazy slow due to the dinky appliance line running to the filters. My house is a rental so I can't get too crazy with the pluming.

 

[davenmandy]

When I start the patch, what do I do about the actual corner that the crack started from? Like there will be a patch top and bottom, but what about the rounded corner? Reason I ask is because I know that cut and corner is really important for the structural integrity of your brace/tank, if it's not a certain circumference it will craze and crack eventually. So I apply a really light coat of wo40 to that corner and leave it? Any tips on dealing with the wo40 itself? Could only find the pint kit. How do I compensate for the brace bowing upwards?



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[davenmandy]

Woops posted on the wrong thread, disregard!


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[DB junkie]

Son of a.... how often do you change the drip filters, every other day or less??

Every month or so or when the first filter plugs enough to reduce flow. I think each filter is supposed to be good for 10K gallons.

No Chloramine here in corn country. Only worried about Chlorine which I didn't get a positive test for even after running the same filters for months.

 

[davenmandy]

Hey DB, is the reason for using 3 whole house filters due to having more tanks or would you run 3 for even 1 tank? I mean is it due to the amount you drip? Because I don't think I would break 1000/m, probably 750, can I get away with just 1? And i take it I want carbon block filter with sediment, should I aim for less than 5 micron for any reason?

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[DB junkie]

Hey DB, is the reason for using 3 whole house filters due to having more tanks or would you run 3 for even 1 tank? I mean is it due to the amount you drip? Because I don't think I would break 1000/m, probably 750, can I get away with just 1? And i take it I want carbon block filter with sediment, should I aim for less than 5 micron for any reason?

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I use 3 cause the first will plug before the carbon is "used". For this reason I rotate them, making 2 necessary. The 3rd is for overkill. I due run ALL my systems off this manifold though, so you should be OK with 2...... I think I've been up around 5K gallons a week, so that kinda explains the desire for redundancy in my application.

You could likely even get by with one, I'm betting it'll cut flow down so much you'd change it before the carbon's gone, but given what rays cost, given what filters cost, and the fact they sell them in pairs, I'd error on the side of caution and run at least 2.........

 

[davenmandy]

What size appliance line did you run into the water filters? I think they come in two sizes, 1 inch and 1/4 inch or 3/16 or whatever it is. From the picture of i had to guess you used the bigger one?

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[DB junkie]

What size appliance line did you run into the water filters? I think they come in two sizes, 1 inch and 1/4 inch or 3/16 or whatever it is. From the picture of i had to guess you used the bigger one?

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Going to the filter manifold is washing machine line - like garden hose but metal braided outside and designed for CONTINUOUS use (unlike garden hose) IF I had to guess I'm guessing it's 5/8" ID. The manifold has a normal garden hose type spigot after the filters for tank filling, then after that is 4 lines going out that use that smaller 3/16" appliance line like you'd use to hook up a fridge/ice maker.

The flow really sucks though. I plan to redo the whole thing with larger line going to it, as I know the filter housings will accept larger line then what I have going to it.... My problem is with a rental house I can't get too crazy but the slow flow may drive me to.... lol

 

[davenmandy]

Lol okay great thanks. I only have the 1 tank so flow shouldn't be an issue cuz i only want a 1gph drip. Gah i hate plumbing, it's always a puzzle. Going to spend an hour at the hardware store trying to figure it out one step at a time, from the compression fittings on, just wanted an idea for how big to aim for the compression fittings. Maybe I'll get lucky and it will fall in to place easy.

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