Idea for homemade water deionizer

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I've been doing some research on di water. I came across a guy on ebay trying to sell a homemade di system. Its basically a 3ft 3" PVC pipe with hose connects on either end. My idea is to use that design and put the cr spotless resin in it.
Any opinions or improvement?
 
I built my own, with a couple (3) 2.5 by 10 inch water filter housings, 2 refillable di resin cartridges, and a 5 micron filter. works great and if you look on the web, you can find info on how to recharge the di resin with Lye and Muriatic acid, a lot cheaper than buying di resin. only problem with my system is that with 60ppm water (which is pretty good), I do about 10 cars before needing to recharge the di resin, and I only get 1 gpm flow. But that is all I need to rinse. in the pic you can see I also added an inline tds meter which helps me monitor the water quality. total cost was around 100$.
 
Divine Details said:
I've been doing some research on di water. I came across a guy on ebay trying to sell a homemade di system. Its basically a 3ft 3" PVC pipe with hose connects on either end. My idea is to use that design and put the cr spotless resin in it.
Any opinions or improvement?
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You're going to flush the resin right out.
 
octane said:
I built my own, with a couple (3) 2.5 by 10 inch water filter housings, 2 refillable di resin cartridges, and a 5 micron filter. works great and if you look on the web, you can find info on how to recharge the di resin with Lye and Muriatic acid, a lot cheaper than buying di resin. only problem with my system is that with 60ppm water (which is pretty good), I do about 10 cars before needing to recharge the di resin, and I only get 1 gpm flow. But that is all I need to rinse. in the pic you can see I also added an inline tds meter which helps me monitor the water quality. total cost was around 100$.
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thanks i think thats how im going to do mine. just cant bring myself to pay $200-300 for one.
 
would runninng a water softener before the di units prolong the life of the di resin?
 
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