[Soupy]

Looks a good idea but don't fancy paying £108 +VAT @20% for the equivalent of 24 litres of resin.

Stephen Fox (window cleaning warehouse) claims you can fill it with any resin.

[rosskesava]

Ross,

I'm not saying you should buy one at all, but having a satisfaction guarantee does help with peace of mind in a purchase, don't you think?

The socks are an option for ease of use - you can fill it with loose resin as well.

The OP was asking if anyone has used one then follows a load of comments, from people who haven't, giving it a hard time

I think it's more to do with the price of it. The idea looks novel and seems really well thought out but at £240? To my mind that is a ridiculous price.

And the 30% more efficient claim that cannot be substantiated?

The Unger peace of mind guarantee thing, I have to admit that is a big plus. I bought a ninja bucket and squeegee and about 6 or 9 months later the clasp that holds the blade in broke. The next time I was in the cleaning supplies place I said about it to the owner and he changed it for a new one, no questions asked.

[Soupy]

http://www.windowcleaningwarehouse.co.uk/unger-hydropower.html

It's a resin vessel.

Selling points:

Diffuser for the water - prevents channelling and apparently increases resin life 30%
Quick release.

Obvious downsides:

It's expensive. I'll need to run it for a while but if it saves 30% it'll pay for itself quite quickly.
Resin comes in a stupid looking sock. The fantastic Mr Fox reckons you can fill it with any, loose resin.
It's made by Unger Seems reasonably well put together.
Hoselock fittings. Unscrew them and it's a 3/4 insch bsp fitting.

So, it arrived. Seems pretty good to me.

[Soupy]

.....also:

With some people taking 40 minutes to change the resin in the old bottles this will take less than 5. It's basically just a bucket.

[oldman]

.....also:

 It's basically just a bucket.

Expensive bucket though    LOL.

[Soupy]

Soooo...


3 days running with part RO 000 water and part tap water at around 050 going in and the TDS is creeping above 000 already.

Not good.

I've filled up with Tulsion see how we go...

[Smudger]

Why you using tap water soupy ??

Darran

[Soupy]

Why you using tap water soupy ??

Darran

Fill up at a customers house.

[wfp master]

unger stick to trad gear. yer wfp gear is crap.

[Smudger]

Ahhhhh I see

How big is your sack.....  Resin that is

Darran

[Soupy]

Ahhhhh I see

How big is your sack.....  Resin that is

Darran

Not very, ooh matron. I think it's only about 6L.

Anyway just looked through the bunff supplied with the kit, it would appear that it's only good for 1200L of water (all be-it at 180ppm).



Doesn't sound like very much water to me. I wonder what exactly that's 30% more efficient than...





I'm going to try it in a double DI set up see if that helps..

http://www.ungerglobal.com/uk/media/wysiwyg/pdf/downloads/nLite-HydroPower-DI-Filters-Brochure.pdf

[Smudger]

Ooh that's small, I'd wouldn't run anything less than the 10 ltr option.

Yes double di will help out a great deal,

My membrane is on its last legs and is at 45 TDS at present, i double di the the first bottle at 10 and new resin in the second (11 ltr) I get around 8000 ltrs before the second bottle hits 10 TDS ( that's about 4 days work )

Must get a new membrane next week

Darran

[Soupy]

I refilled it with tulsion. It lasted less than 1 day. Something like 200ltrs at 50ppm.

I will be sending it back.

[PoleKing]

I'd be interested to hear about 'the worlds most rigid pole'...?

[Soupy]

I'd be interested to hear about 'the worlds most rigid pole'...?

Where's Griff?