I bought this a couple of months ago from Aquasafe Canada and apparently don't need it, just needed to plumb my system correctly.
Here is the description from AquasafeCanada's website...
80 PSI BOOSTER PUMP 4 (16)
This offering is for a 80 PSI booster pump. This pump is a must for homes on well water and for municipalities that operate on low PSI. Unless your well have very soft water and low TDS, the 40/60 cycle on most wells produces a less that desirable RO purification. It is commonly in the 85-92% range. This increases the burden on the DI resins and burns them up fairly quickly.
The absolute rule OF REVERSE OSMOSIS purification is, the more PSI the better the flow and recharge rate, and the better the rejection rate. The pump will dramatically improve the refill and the rejection rates.
It takes 700 PSI to process seawater---but that's 36,000 TDS. Customers with 1400 TDS and 50 PSI will not get product water...neither will homes with 55F +600 TDS and 45 PSI...homes in marginal situations will get 85-95% rejection rates instead of the 95-98% that most homes will achieve. These booster pumps are miracles for homes that have low PSI and or high TDS.
If you have low PSI (less than 45) and/or high TDS (500), the pump is a good investment. If you want the best rejection possible to save on the DI filters, then the pump is a good idea. It is either on or off and does not have automatic controls. The e-z way to control it is with a simple plug in timer...20 minutes 3 times per day.
Okay, somebody say something... what is everyone thinking on this? Too much? Not needed?
Bernie, the price is good. it would seem that no one who has seen this thread actually need one right now. keep bumping this thread and eventually the right person will see it.
Praise be the Flying Spaghetti Monster! The Ro/DI unit found a home down in sunny Florida with Amphibious... Thanks alot Amp!
You mean to tell me your so happy to have sold the pump??? Or, that the check didn't bounce?
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Originally Posted by Blubber
what mad plans does Amp have for that poor pump?
Amp lives in the country with his own well at 40#s of pressure. I bought a new RO/DI unit from Aqua safe few months ago and haven't hooked it up yet. I'm running an old unit that is literally INCREDIBLE. I bought that one in 2000 and have run hundreds maybe thousands of gallons through it and when I got to FL 9 months ago just hooked it up as a temp unit to get water for the 135. TDS reading is 7ppm and so I've been using that water. I even bought a second TDS meter to see if my meter was wrong it wasn't the new meter read 10ppm. Not enough to worry about. One or the other could be off that much. I've never changed anything in that unit. It's amazing.
The reason I bought the new RO/DI is I'm going to set it up to make drinking and cooking water. We bought 5 1/2 acres of an old abandoned orange/grapefruit grove. The former owner and God are the only ones that know what and how much pesticides and other chemicals were used here over the working life of the grove. So, better safe than sorry I say. Right now we drink and cook with bottled water bought by the gallon at Sam's. The new unit will save that money.
__________________ Amphibious
Reaching my 70th BD, I realize that I cannot help but grow old. However, I refuse to grow up!!! My wife would tell you, "He may be 70 but, He's going on 17". Life is wonderful with a woman like that.
I'm amazed that the bomb-like box full of hard metal and wires made it to your doorstep in 3 days, however a check in an envelope took 10 days... I chalk it up to every postal employee looking and thinking "can i just put this in my pocket?"
Rob, if you haven't researched the Flying Spaghetti Monster yet, you really need to... very funny stuff, even if it is a little sacraligious.
I'm amazed that the bomb-like box full of hard metal and wires made it to your doorstep in 3 days, however a check in an envelope took 10 days... I chalk it up to every postal employee looking and thinking "can i just put this in my pocket?"
I once mailed a proposal to a client in Milwaukee, I lived in Madison 75 miles away, two weeks ahead of our appointment so she had time to look at it and run it past her attorney. At our appointment, two weeks after mailing the envelope, she said it had not arrived. I didn't believe her. While trying to explain the proposal to her, the postman delivered her mail. I asked her to retrieve the mail. There was my proposal. I went to my postal office and complained. I was told the postman has the discretion of deciding when a given package would be delivered, even first class.
I can't even blame this on Bush. It was twenty years ago.
Bernie and I are probably 600 miles apart so that doesn't surprise me. They wonder why UPS, FedEx and DHL have cut into their business.
__________________ Amphibious
Reaching my 70th BD, I realize that I cannot help but grow old. However, I refuse to grow up!!! My wife would tell you, "He may be 70 but, He's going on 17". Life is wonderful with a woman like that.
ever hear that story about an italian soldier sending a marriage proposal to his sweetheart a letter during WWII and the mail came 2 years after the war when they were already married? not sure if it is urban myth, the Vatican uses the swiss postal service.
RO/DI booster pump - $50 + shipping/ OBO? 
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