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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2021 15:22:41 GMT
Coffee tastes better with a lower TDS...
Don't put bloody lime in it through.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2021 17:57:27 GMT
Coffee tastes better with a lower TDS... Don't put bloody lime in it through. I would not seek to add lime juice to coffee. I actually never drink coffee other than occasionally the woman making it for me. Occasionally being less than weekly. It's really good in tea but I can see why someone would baulk at using it in coffee.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2021 18:06:36 GMT
I should clarify (pun intended) that the yellow cup is one I found in the River and use for testing purposes. It is not a tea drinking cup. I think it's IKEA CRAP but not sure.
It has the slightly displeasing feel of one of their pieces of junk.
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Post by JohnV on Jun 16, 2021 20:24:22 GMT
I should clarify (pun intended) that the yellow cup is one I found in the River and use for testing purposes. It is not a tea drinking cup. I think it's IKEA CRAP but not sure. It has the slightly displeasing feel of one of their pieces of junk. have you got any idea what the ratio of drinking water to flushed water is from the RO yet Andrew ?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2021 20:33:49 GMT
Annoyingly I went ahead and plumbed it to the sink waste. Obviously with Dulcinea being a residential boat the sink is a normal one and has a normal household type waste. And a seacock.
So I just cut a hole with the knife and clamped the thing around the sink waste and the RO rejected water is discharged cleanly out of the lovely stainless steel welded-in skin fitting.
I think it is about 5:1. ETA 1:5. .
I suppose for accuracy I should remove the 1/4 pushfit pipe and route it to a container and do an actual test on it.
It's certainly a relevant point if you have limited tankage.
This boat has 5 different water tanks all of which are stainless and large.
Priority is given to life support systems.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2021 13:00:12 GMT
Anyway. Update.
The settling tanks is -definitely- the right approach.
Obviously it does depend on how much water you use but if you can arrange a settling tank around the same size as your daily usage then it should work.
Pump river/canal water into it then detain the water for 24hrs then send it through the filters.
I'm sure it's quite technical and the one on Dulcinea is about 4ft long 1ft wide and 18 inches deep. My brain says metric so 3x4.5x12 which is 13.5x12 so let's say around 150 litres of a bit more.
Gravity is real and it works amazingly well.
I actually think this one was designed to be a continuous very slow flow tank rather than a long detention time but both options are available depending on how you choose to pump it out the other end.
It just does sort the silt problem.
I've only used it for a few cycles but there is a sludge pump outlet so I think it will be ok.
What it could do with is a sight window so you can eyeball the status without removing the lid.
I suppose alternatively you just pump the sludge at a regular interval like every week or something.
I presume the pump one would want for that would be a whale gulper or similar single diaphragm pump.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2021 15:42:05 GMT
A slightly fascinating side to this all is that the 14 TDS water from the little reverse osmosis system is incredibly good for cooking pasta.
Pasta is my staple diet product I have it all the time and since using the "polished river water" I have noticed the pasta is a lot nicer. it really seems much cleaner than when cooked in normal mains supply tap water.
Which is nice.
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Post by Jim on Jul 4, 2021 16:22:35 GMT
A slightly fascinating side to this all is that the 14 TDS water from the little reverse osmosis system is incredibly good for cooking pasta. Pasta is my staple diet product I have it all the time and since using the "polished river water" I have noticed the pasta is a lot nicer. it really seems much cleaner than when cooked in normal mains supply tap water. Which is nice. It will be the added protein from the microbes.
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