RO Flow Rate.....Is It To Fast?

[fishjinx]

:whipit: :onguard:

I Just Hooked Up My RO and it is Connected Straight to the Main Water Line, with A T-Connector to a Mini-Ball-Valve.

I Just Turned it On and the Flow Going out to my Resevoirs is not a Drip, it is Like a Slow Steady Flow - to - Very Fast Drip.

I Was Just Wondering if That is OK or is There Something Wrong with That Type of Flow Rate.

The Unit is Rated For 45 or 50 Gallons A Day.

Thanks

[ajx22]

Sounds a little fast for a 50GPD membrane rating...

The flow rate should be 4-to-1 ~ 4 being the wasteline, and 1 being the product line.

There is a possibility that they installed the wrong flow restrictor as well.

[fishjinx]

Any Suggestions on How to Make Sure That I am Getting the Right Flow Out of This Thing.

I Forgot to Mention that this is also Using a Kent Pressure Soilnoid Shut Off Float Valve Kit, Which is Controlled by Two Float Falves.

Let Me Further Explain, 1) R.O. Main Line Goes To a Tee.

2) Tee Splits into two Resevoirs Controlled
By Kent Float Valves.

3) Once Float Valves Shut Off This Kent
Soilinoid Valve is Suppose to Shutoff
The R.O. Unit.

That is Basically My Setup, Now This R.O. is Connected Straight to The Main Water Line of My House, Full Pressure Can This be The Cause of such a Fast Rate of Flow From the R.O. Good Water Return Line.

I Will Include Pics if You Want, or Maybe I Could Get A Gallon Rating on My Resevoirs and Time How Long They Take To Fill.

Anyways if Anyone has any Suggestions that Would Be Great, All Ears are Open.

Thanks

[ajx22]

Try to do a comparison on the output of the waste and product lines. As mentioned...it should be a 4-to-1 ratio.

You can also try to measure the amount coming out of the product line in a given amount of time - and then work out the GPH from that.

The shut-off valves should not have any effect on the output.

Connecting to the main feed line of the house shouldn't affect this either. I have about 56psi water pressure in my house. I am using my RO/DI unit with an Aquatec booster pump...so I get about 90psi when the filter is running. Unless you have UNDER 40psi or OVER 100psi - water pressure wouldn't affect production by a great deal (though more is better in this case).

Make sure that you are connected to the cold water line...as running warm/hot water will increase your production (but will kill your filters much faster - warm/hot water contains more TDS).

Try to check the output in GPH & compare the waste vs. product line outputs. These two tests should give you a better idea of what is transpiring.

HTH

[PlaYer]

Just measure TDS of the output water and if it's above 10 than you have a problem

[Mckitrick]

Also as AJ mentioned, check the flow restrictor on the Waste water line.
You don't have some sort of pressure/storage tank post RO, do you? I know the answer is prlobably No but I just wanted to make sure... :)