Anyone Know How to Hook up an RO System??

[ChameleonAlley]

Hey all, thanks so much for the messages on the misting systems. I just got a mistking in the mail. I had to go with two pumps to run all our cages.

My question is that Marty once told me on the phone that I could hook up an RO system to my washer and then to the mistking. Does anyone know anything about this? I'm completely clueless as to how they work, from hooking it up to the washer, to waste water, to hooking it up to the 1/4" mistking spout. If anyone has any suggestions on a RO system that will work and how to hook it up, I would greatly appreciate it.

Are any of you running your systems off of something like a trash can full of water??

 

[ataraxia]

your r/o system should come with all the fittings and pieces to do the job. the hard part will be this. if you have a crawl space, on a slab and you plumbing is in the attic, near a faucet and drain, basement and most important....do you have pvc plumbing. you may need to do some drilling. that just depends on where your system is located. you will need pvc plumbing. basically first for the r/o system you just need to find a cold water pipe. use the brass puncture clamp that will pierce the water line, clamp it to the water line, connect your r/o "in/feed" hose and twist the puncture tool in. leave it this off. next find a drain preferably a vertical line and do the same as above but you will hook up the "waste" line to this one. as far as hooking the outlet to the misting i dont know. i would fear if your running many nozzles. i dont think a r/o system will be able to keep up unless you have a tank.

also you dont want the pump sucking/forcing the water through the membranes and filter process. so the more i think of it you need a catch tank for the r/o water and then to the mistking.

 

[summoner12]

If your system came with a pressure vessel, you can connect the pumps suction line to the tank with a T fitting. However you will need a solenoid valve to stop the flow of water to the pump when the misting is not required. These types of pumps do not hold water back, so the valve is needed. If the valve wasn't used the misting would not stop when the pump turned off.

This is a similar idea of how to hook it up. In an RO unit that uses a booster pump, the typical auto shutoff valve isn't used, it is replaced with a pressure switch that controls the pump and valves power. This is a Zero Waste RO unit I installed for a friend at his home.