I’m really happy with my RO unit in my aquarium work area, behind the tanks… but it runs a lot of water, and made my copper lines for the house sweat, later last summer I insulated all the house pipes… 1st issue taken care of… now 6 months later, we’re going through softer salt like crazy… our water is so hard, that a long time ago, it was set up, that the whole house is through the softener, so my RO unit is fed with soft water, and all the filter rinse water is soft… so today I began with a 1/4 inch saddle valve on the water line coming in, before the softener, and I bought 2 big rolls of plastic tubing, one 1/4 inch, as the water line, and 1 roll of 3/8 inch, that the 1/4 inch barely slides into, as wear protection, and I’m hoping that will be a small air gap that should protect this line from sweating… I got a handful of the push lock fittings, and have the line going currently to a tank by itself on the opposite side of the house this tank is a hard water tank, live bearers, and rainbows right now, and previously was getting house softened water… today I’ll start bending in less sodium hard water… next week, when my in line shut off valves come in, I’ll begin feeding my RO unit with unsoftened hard water… if the double line works to control the pipe sweating I’ll be finally happy with my water… once the hard water gets to my RO unit, I’ll have good unsoftened well water, to blend into the RO, for my shrimp tanks, and any live bearing breeding tanks I may set up in my work area… so close I can almost taste that would Ron and calcium well water…
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