Water changes SUCK. Here's my automated system!

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aclockworkorange said:
Yes, I have seen that system too. The other real problem is I have tanks (12 of them?) all around the house (ask someone who has been over recently haha). If I had one big tank (or a few right next to each other) I would consider it for sure. When I move next summer I'm going to really change stuff around and set something up--and hopefully no chloramines.


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Seems like a worthwhile investment when you have such volatile water, and especially with that many tanks! Even if you were only able to set up a water changer on a few tanks, that's still a plus. Then when you move you can set them all up on water changers. Or just route 12 feed/drain lines all over the house :)
 
Michiba54 said:
Poke a hole in the bottom of a 1 gal prime jug, much cheaper.

But seriously isn't dilution on our side here?
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Not with chloramines, IMO. Since the chlorine/ammonia bond won't break down you'll get a build of chloramines in the system. This could lead to big problems I'm sure.
 
prime breaks down chloramines too? just have to use a higher concentration since it has to break down the chlormines
 
anarekist said:
prime breaks down chloramines too? just have to use a higher concentration since it has to break down the chlormines
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No higher concentration needed. Chloramines is just a chlorine+ammonia compound. Prime does a few things:

- breaks down the chloramines bond which leaves chlorine and ammonia in the water
- neutralizes the resulting chlorine
- detoxifies the residual ammonia
 
would a drip emiter (hole in prime jug) connected to a y spliter of another drip emmiter work?
 
I guess it would work in theory but it would probably be very inefficient and you might waste a lot of Prime. Maybe even dose too much into your tank...
 
Michiba54 said:
I'll take your word for it Homer, impossible just seems like a strong word... :)

Jcardona1, when you did run your RODI system as a full RODI did you have anything to bypass the first few minutes of RO water so your DI resin didn't get eaten up from TDS creep?
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Your quite right, impossible may have been a bit strong...

I guess if you were renovating your whole apartment literally tearing everything out it would be possible...

But if you were already living in a flat and had to do a system like that it would cost you so much it basically wouldnt be worth it, since you would probably have to get a proper contractor into tear down walls etc just to install it in a way it could be some what hidden...


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