OK, now I have it...

[fishfanatic2]

...now I just gotta make it work! RO unit came yesterday, everything in good shape, but I'm confused. How does the auto-shutoff valve work? Where to the 2 valves attach to? Also, I'm mounting it downstairs and the tank is upstairs. Should I have the RO fill into a clean garbage can and heat the water and mix it, then pump it upstairs when needed? This would fill upstairs buckets a lot faster, but would be more costly and more leakable. Or should I have it just fill directly into buckets upstairs when i need it? TIA

 

[Anonymous]

I don't know a daggone thing about the shut-off valves so I hope someone more savvy than me answers you. I'm into 'low tech' solutions because there is less to go wrong and I am plumbing skills challenged .

I dunno if I'd want to pump mixed water back upstairs, I'm not sure the cost involved would make it worthwhile. I just let my RO unit dump into a clean garbage can, and then I use a powerhead with some tubing to move the RO water into other containers for mixing and schlep the stuff up the stairs.

HTH

 

[Ben1]

I have my RO tubing which I bought like 100' of in white nailed to the wall with wire hangers. It fills a both buckets up stairs and downstairs.

Where to the 2 valves attach to?

Are you asking about the input/output?

How does the auto-shutoff valve work?

Run the good water line to a float valve in your bucket. The auto shut off valve should be connected to yur membrane, post carbon/sediment should flow into it at the top or input. The good water leaving the membrane should go to a tee then one side to the float valve and one side to the other port on the autosht off vlave.

This is the one I use, there is a downloadable picture of it connected.

http://kentmarine.com/waterfilters/shutoff.html

HTH

 

[fishfanatic2]

thnx guys, anything else appreciated!

 

[Anonymous]

I dunno if I'd want to pump mixed water back upstairs, I'm not sure the cost involved would make it worthwhile. I just let my RO unit dump into a clean garbage can, and then I use a powerhead with some tubing to move the RO water into other containers for mixing and schlep the stuff up the stairs.

HTH

This time of year the humidity is dropping and it gets really old hauling buckets. I am thinking of a teardown and move the tank to the basement.

 

[Anonymous]

I dunno if I'd want to pump mixed water back upstairs, I'm not sure the cost involved would make it worthwhile. I just let my RO unit dump into a clean garbage can, and then I use a powerhead with some tubing to move the RO water into other containers for mixing and schlep the stuff up the stairs.

HTH

This time of year the humidity is dropping and it gets really old hauling buckets. I am thinking of a teardown and move the tank to the basement.

Naww, it's good for the biceps of steel