Rain

« **on:** August 21, 2009, 10:39:27 am »

Does any one use rain water for window cleaning? Getting enough of it here and if you could collect enough the tds is quite low.

« **Reply #1 on:** August 21, 2009, 01:55:31 pm »

there are some

just search for "rainwater harvesting"

plenty of posts

OR

you may want to try the DIY site

Quote

try typing into google

diy water fed pole forum

ciu wont let me put the link up

or e.mail Matt

diywfplink@yahoo.co.uk

« **Reply #2 on:** August 21, 2009, 05:48:09 pm »

Thanks for links. Now it stopped raining!

« **Reply #3 on:** August 21, 2009, 05:55:27 pm »

Thanks for links. Now it stopped raining!

i have been thinking about doing this myself, so its been helpful to me too.

« **Reply #4 on:** August 21, 2009, 07:52:29 pm »

Divert rainwater into an IBC container. Then run it through filters, RO, DI. Helps keep running costs down to bare minimum to produce pure water.

« **Reply #5 on:** August 22, 2009, 06:39:29 pm »

Divert rainwater into an IBC container. Then run it through filters, RO, DI. Helps keep running costs down to bare minimum to produce pure water.

why an RO?

more like a carbon/earth filter or something to remove biological contaminants then a di filter to get 0 tds.

« **Reply #6 on:** August 22, 2009, 06:47:25 pm »

yeah there would be no use for an RO, i recently tested some rain water and it was a tds of around 12-15. DI would do it all, after the filters

« **Reply #7 on:** August 22, 2009, 07:07:39 pm »

i agree di would do it all , what technically is the purpose of a di water from ro always reads 000