Where to tap drinking water from my RO/DI?

[Scott]

Hey all.

I bought a tank to grab drinking water from my RO/DI unit. From what I've read everywhere, it's bad to drink deionized water, or at least it tastes awful.

My unit is from AWI, but it doesn't have the "RO valve" that I read about on some of the units. I bought it used, so I don't know exactly which one it is.

So I think I want to grab water from after stage 3 and before stage 4. Here's my unit and what I think the stages are...

My question, after "have I got that correct?" is where to cut the line and put in the T? do I put it at point 'a' or 'b'? Or does it not matter?

(yuk, that thing's dirty!)

Thanks for the help.

 

[delta]

Tap it after the membrane, right before it hits the DI

 

[Scott]

Tap it after the membrane, right before it hits the DI

Great.

So this brings me to the same a/b question as above, does it matter if I do that before or after that ASOV valve (whatever that does)?

Thanks.

 

[delta]

After, not sure it matters but, that is how my Dual home/reef is setup

 

[Scott]

awesome, thanks Greg.

 

[stingythingy45]

Hi Scott,

I have a dual drinking water reef system also.After the ro membrane is where to tap into.But my system has a carbon filter before it despenses to the holding tank.I guess it's a final filtration to make it taste better.

 

[Scott]

Hi Bob, the kit I bought also has an extra filter called "Taste and Odor Reduction", Sounds like carbon to me.

The instructions that came with it have it going through that filter on the way OUT, just before the faucet.

 

[stingythingy45]

Hi Bob, the kit I bought also has an extra filter called "Taste and Odor Reduction", Sounds like carbon to me.

The instructions that came with it have it going through that filter on the way OUT, just before the faucet.

Yup,that's it.
Mine's just after the ro and before the holding tank.

 

[shawn]

You can take the water out of the final stage if you want, as there is nothing harmful or unpleasant with drinking DI water - unless you expect your water to have taste from dissolved substances ("pure" water is tasteless). In fact, many drinking water filters are either DI or RO/DI filters.

If you are going to drink "lots" of water - it is good to make sure that you do have a source of electrolytes, as well. But then if you are drinking that much water I'm not sure you'd want to depend on whatever happens to be in your tap water for that purpose...