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Title: How long will my resin last
Post by: DASERVICES on January 16, 2006, 10:31:40 pm

  Haven't started WFP yet but my tap water TDS is 25 ( Stirling, Scotland )
  so how long will a 25l bag of resin last.

  Cheers

  Doug

Title: Re: How long will my resin last
Post by: Moderator David@stives on January 16, 2006, 10:35:16 pm

 a very long time i would say 3 months depending on useage

Title: Re: How long will my resin last
Post by: H h20 on January 16, 2006, 10:41:16 pm

My tap tds is 315 and i run the Merlin RO and it comes down to 28,im still on my fisrt bag of resin still at 00 almost 8 months,Gaz

Title: Re: How long will my resin last
Post by: DASERVICES on January 16, 2006, 10:44:10 pm

  Cheers,

  Gaz, what make of resin do you use, I purchased Purolite.

  Thanks

Title: Re: How long will my resin last
Post by: H h20 on January 16, 2006, 10:46:37 pm

Quote from: D.A. Services on January 16, 2006, 10:44:10 pm

  Cheers,

  Gaz, what make of resin do you use, I purchased Purolite.

  Thanks

Dowex,i got it from wintecs,Gaz

Title: Re: How long will my resin last
Post by: Andrew McCann on January 16, 2006, 10:58:35 pm

Easy way to work out how many litres of pure per 25 ltr bag of resin:

500000 divided by TDS in.  So at 25 you will get approx 20000 litres of pure water out.

Hope this helps

Andrew

Title: Re: How long will my resin last
Post by: Mike Hunt on January 17, 2006, 09:31:49 am

Always have a bag on standby though because theres no warning.It will just plummet.