If you want cleaner water get a RODI system. Unless you have a water meter
Is that because you're throwing a certain amount of water away constantly? My standalone RO unit has a 3:1 drain, which seems common among standalone units. Only 1/3 of the water is used, the other 2/3 is waste.
I wasn't sure if that's particular to standalone units or the method itself.
I'm pretty sure they all do it, but I'm not an expert. Certainly all the consumer grade stuff will because it would get really expensive to try to save water and then deal with the concentrated contaminants. You can always divert the "wastewater" into a garden.
I'm not so sure wastewater needs quotations in my case, my tank after filtration has an oddly sweet smell to it. I've heard of water tasting sweet from limestone, but smelling sweet? That's something funky.
I don't worry about tossing it, every time I flush my toliet it's 5 gallons and then every friggin bottle water company and plenty of other industries are using water like it's going out of style.
I think it's weird we put water conservation on regular people.
And it's still relatively cheap, although I do remember when water was free.
Lead tastes sweet. Have you ever thought about getting it tested?
Maybe I should. I rely on the water tests they do at the local MUD and they look okay... but who knows between here and there what happens to the water.
Now lead tastes sweet, but I don't think it smells sweet.
I agree with @Canbot, don't worry about it. Use the distiller to make some alcohol, make sure it's over 100 proof, then drink that instead of water.
TDS != poison
you've got a filter that is shedding solids into your water. Send it to a lab and find out what's in it.
Don’t buy anything from China, ever. It’s all toxic meant to kill us.
It reads like Vevor dissolves solids, volatile organic compounds and "other stuff".
Which if true, would explain the increase in tds.
Probably another example of chinese made brands trying to kill you.
Sounds like you've got a snake oil leak
That's why I don't drink tap water, I gather my water from a source, filters won't save you.
But they literally will. You can filter out everything.
Meanwhile fracking has fracked all the aquifers and chemtrails are coming down in the rain
Just big stuff. Molecular stuff like fluoride gets thru the filters.
Incorrecto. RODI can filter out fluoride.
They say so but common sense says otherwise. H2O wouldn't make it thru.
The deionizer separates out individual ions.
By your logic all of that stuff is in all water everywhere because nothing can ever get it out. So why drink contaminated ground water when you can at least get cleaner filtered water?
That's not my logic because I'm not saying it doesn't get anything out
If the ground can filter it out why would a literal filter that is engineered to do it, built in a special factory where objects like that filter can be created, not be able to do it? Man has far exceeded nature in his ability to create marvels.
Who said ground could
What makes water from aquifers clean?
Huh, that is very odd. I am not sure. This is sort of a nightmare situation for me where my TDS reading goes up and I have no idea why.
Did you clean the water distiller as per manufacturer directions?
You've been on this site for one month and the first question you ask is about water filters? "Kinda sus," as the Zoomers say.
In case you're not a troll, you should know this site is the anti-Reddit. Very much free speech, and because of that, you get a lot of trolls and legitimate racists (not the woke "everything is problematic" accusations; real actual hateful people) on here. Just in case you're a Normie who found this place by mistake. It's not for Normies.
Or short people.
Canbot |8 pointswritten 2 months ago ago
Your vevor has a carbon "filter" at the nozzle that is activated charcoal in a bag. Bits of charcoal are being released into your water. Should be harmless. But the brain damage has already been done considering you are trying to filter water that is already as clean as you can measure.
If you want cleaner water get a RODI system. Unless you have a water meter.
You can also just run the distiller first, then the zero water filter. Or run it through that filter again. But you are getting silly at this point. Use the distiller to brew beer like a real man. And get a reef tank to justify the RO system. If anyone asks the filter is for the fish.