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Re: [Killietalk] Chlorine and Chloramine.
Lee thanks so much for you comments. I was thinking along the lines of your
reply, i.e. that something that the tap water goes through in the Kent RO unit
is converting Chloramine to Chlorine which then evaps out.
On 03-Feb-04 LeeH920226 at aol_com wrote:
> OK, there is one more test you need to do. If the water out of the RO unit
> tests for chlorine, does it also test for chloramine? That test is normally a
> test for ammonia after the test for total chlorine followed by a test for
> ammonia after destroying the chloramine with hypo.
>
I currently don't have any hypo, only Prime. As I understand it I can pick this
up from a photo supply house? I do want to complete these tests for my own
education and for the sake of the group. If indeed all I have do is Charcoal
filter my RO waste water to get pure 200 ppm water with no Prime or other
additives I would be very very happy. Is there a LFS source of hypo type
compound?
< SNIP >
> Now I assume there is a carbon filter on the downstream side for the low TDS
> water from the RO unit but not on the "waste water" line.
>
This is exactly correct. I run the output low TDS water from the RO unit
through an Aquarium Pharmaceuticals Tap Water cartridge. This contains
charcoal and resins. The out water of that is, as I said in my previous post, 0
to 1 ppm on the TDS.
Here in MN with our radiator heat we live in extremely dry conditions and we are
pushing humidifiers in every room. The sonic type humidifier seams to work best
with either distilled or this pure RO water. I do the Aqua Pharm thing more to
take the 25 to 30 ppm output water of the Kent unit to 0 for these humidifiers,
however, I now see I am doing my fish a service with this too.
> Lee Harper
> Media, PA
>
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