No TDS tester, at least none that have been used in the past 5 years that I would trust plus all the calibration fluid is expired.Ok, cool thanks. Appreciate it!
At least we would know if those distillers are options for us old lead acid guys.
I could start out with RO filtered water and distill from there.
I never would have guessed that anyone woudl add minerals to distilled water, but they do. Distilled water should be distilled water, no minerals added.
We kept ours. Next day delivery, tv, etc., still makes it worth it for us.
Camelcamelcamel.com is a good "sectre" way to also price check Amazon stufff to see if you are getting a deal or not.
At $4.99, you can't really go wrong. Even $15 seems like a good deal. Mine are coming tonight and I can at least test them and several water types and report back.No TDS tester, at least none that have been used in the past 5 years that I would trust plus all the calibration fluid is expired.
I'll order one of those cheap ones next time I place an order. I'm curious as well.
Right. See pg 1. My RO system can only bring TDS down to 85 mg/l = 85ppm. Battery max is 5ppm. So still too high to use for batteries.Each of the zero filters I got off amazon came with a digital tester. Ive got a drawer full of them now. Having about 2000 gallons worth of fish tanks to keep topped off we bought a BUNCH of the zero filters It takes about 30 minutes for it to fill on each filter so it was required so to speak.
I eventually bought a reverse osmosis filter system and put it under one of the sinks in the house with a 100 foot hose on it to fill the tanks with. Much easier. That might actually be the ideal thing to use if you have enough batteries to keep up with.
It claims Ultra fine (RO) filter to remove contaminants down to 0. 0001 microns.
If I can think of it tonight after I get done setting up my new victron ip22 charger I'll grab one of the digital tds meters and see what is coming out of the RO filtering stuff.Right. See pg 1. My RO system can only bring TDS down to 85 mg/l = 85ppm. Battery max is 5ppm. So still too high to use for batteries.
I will test it in any case. RO sounds like it is ok for fish, but maybe not lead acid batteries.
For whatever reason the filter sizes above 75 gpd are more focused on speed than performance. But if you fed rainwater or melted snow into that system you would get below 5ppm from itRight. See pg 1. My RO system can only bring TDS down to 85 mg/l = 85ppm. Battery max is 5ppm. So still too high to use for batteries.
I will test it in any case. RO sounds like it is ok for fish, but maybe not lead acid batteries.
I will collect some rain water and see if it is worth it. If TDS is low or 0, then it is only a matter of filtering organics out.For whatever reason the filter sizes above 75 gpd are more focused on speed than performance. But if you fed rainwater or melted snow into that system you would get below 5ppm from it
Thank You!a lot of worry about nothing.
You're Welcome. Any time. Yes. Now I know also. Cheap insurance.Thank You!
I have been using the Walmart distilled water in all my FLA's.
Will continue to do so, but also "trust but verify", am ordering a tester.
So fresh water is 15.9 TDS and your distiller makes O TDS water?All this talk about meters got me to go dig through my hydroponic stuff, I had a good meter the entire time (I thought it was a pH meter).
Fresh water from the kitchen faucet (well water that goes through a spin down sediment filter, pH buffer tank, softener tank, and 5um SimPure CTO 10"x4.5" filter) and fresh fill from the distiller pitcher.
Plus the inside of the distiller I haven't cleaned in a while.
Good to know.The zero filter pitchers are 0 tds always till its time to replace the cartridge. Its the cheapest and safest method in my opinion.