RO necessary for me?

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stoobeey

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I've been using arrow water for some time now three or four years since my last apartment's water was really shitty. I'm due to change my 5 stage so I pulled the ro membrane a few weeks back. The old filters register 250ppm And 6.6ish pH. Only thing Ive noticed is my blumats buckets rose to 7.7 to 8
I never check ph but was curious . I know with organics pH isn't much of a concern. Just trying to determine if I should even install the new ro membrane with whel flip it the old filters
 
GenericEnigma

GenericEnigma

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stoobeey said:
I've been using arrow water for some time now three or four years since my last apartment's water was really shitty. I'm due to change my 5 stage so I pulled the ro membrane a few weeks back. The old filters register 250ppm And 6.6ish pH. Only thing Ive noticed is my blumats buckets rose to 7.7 to 8
I never check ph but was curious . I know with organics pH isn't much of a concern. Just trying to determine if I should even install the new ro membrane with whel flip it the old filters
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250ppm is getting closer to potential issues. At that point it might depend on what exactly those 250 parts are made of - you could be 100% fine, or it could be a slow train to disaster.

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McShnutz

McShnutz

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RoDi all the way!!!
I run blumats and a no-till 4x8 fabric bed, I have a shit ton of soil. Some say go ahead and run tap water or whatever, mabey its cool for them in a much smaller container but I can't afford carbonate accumulation in roughly 350 gallons. And to be fair, I have heard to water in with an acid to free up all that calcium bound in carbonate form. Makes sense, but so does not accumulating the carbonate in the first place. Same concept with accumulated sodium. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
 
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stoobeey

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McShnutz said:
RoDi all the way!!!
I run blumats and a no-till 4x8 fabric bed, I have a shit ton of soil. Some say go ahead and run tap water or whatever, mabey its cool for them in a much smaller container but I can't afford carbonate accumulation in roughly 350 gallons. And to be fair, I have heard to water in with an acid to free up all that calcium bound in carbonate form. Makes sense, but so does not accumulating the carbonate in the first place. Same concept with accumulated sodium. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
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I don't have the DI option but I did add the new membrane back into the system last night so everyone is going back in RO this week
 
Week4@inCharge

Week4@inCharge

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stoobeey said:
Huh? No I was talking about the 5 stage minus the ro membrane . Doesn't matter I put a new membrane in the other day so I'm back to ro of 50ppm and 7ph
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The initial post, you said "I've been using arrow water for some time now three or four years"
 
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