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Unread 07/16/2014, 06:28 PM   #76
Buckeye Hydro
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You should have a functioning check valve on the permeate line - sounds like you don't have one or it's not working.

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Unread 07/16/2014, 10:12 PM   #77
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Not part of my issue but i dont think it was directed at me either as for i only fill up my rodi tank from my unit. I have no line from rodi going into my salt tank. This is done by valves and a pump


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Unread 07/17/2014, 06:50 AM   #78
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You should have a functioning check valve on the permeate line - sounds like you don't have one or it's not working.

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Russ,

I do not have a check valve on that line. I ended up just shortening it so that it is physically impossjble for the water level to reach it.

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Unread 07/17/2014, 06:53 AM   #79
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Not part of my issue but i dont think it was directed at me either as for i only fill up my rodi tank from my unit. I have no line from rodi going into my salt tank. This is done by valves and a pump
OK, I didn't catch that. Yep, that would not be applicable toyour situation. I just wanted to put that out there for consideration. Surely I can't be the only one that this has happened to?


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Unread 07/17/2014, 06:54 AM   #80
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That will work too!

BTW - Sometimes people don't think they have a check valve but they actually do. Sometimes it is built into the elbow fitting in the permeate port in the RO membrane housing. They don't last forever.

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Unread 07/17/2014, 01:46 PM   #81
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Just FYI, Dow has newer membrane, the BW60-1812-75 that replaces the TW30 and has a 99% rejection rate.


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Unread 07/17/2014, 02:14 PM   #82
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Yep - been out for quite some time. This is what our "standard" 75 gpd membrane is. But as always, you aren't always going to see 99% from it.

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