Pick best RO system please:)

[cutietwo]

It's finally happening, i'm finally getting my own ro system! It's very exciting and I can't wait I have found 2 that I can not decide between, so I thought i'd ask the experts Here are the options:
1)http://www.thatpetplace.com/pet/prod...eMO7R3~K7QbA__

2)http://cgi.ebay.com/RO-DI-REEF-WATER...item439a9cb460

Thanks so much for you help!

[Fat Tony]

http://www.airwaterice.com/product/1...er_75_GPD.html

any reason why you didn't list that one in the options?

[cutietwo]

[quote=Fat Tony;1610000]http://www.airwaterice.com/product/1...er_75_GPD.html

wow I didn't see that one.it says they have had no incident reports with buyers, so that's a plus. do you have one? Is there a reason neither of the 2 I put up there are no good?

[Fat Tony]

Airwaterice sponsors this forum for one

2nd, they have a great reputation and deliver excellent customer service and expertise

I'd recommend them over wither of the other two just based on the service alone.

[cutietwo]

ok thanks. sounds like a winner then. appreciate the help it can get so confusing with all the selections and choices you know???

[mediabox]

Be careful with airwaterice. I picked one up just last week, as recommended by this site but they totally messed up mine. I am really fuming.

Two issues:

1) They installed the ASOV valve physically upside down and one pair of hoses to it were reversed. This caused about 3 days of water at about 5g/hr down the drain. Why didn't I reialize this eariler you ask. Becuase their instructions say it's normal to drain for 3 days while the air is still purging from the system. So now that I had to re-plumb, rotate the unit 180, and wait possibly another 3 days before it stops wasting water!?

2) The inline TDS meter measure the output of the RO stage and then the DI stage. This is really nice when I make DI water. Seeing how the filters are doing. Problem is when I make RO water the TDS probe is no longer in the flow of water!? I'm not sure if this is another mistake on my unit or just bad design. I hope for the company's sake it's another mistake. Anyhow if your wondering, this is a problem because when I make RO water the TDS meter show I have 80+ ppm, but in reality what's coming out of the pipe is 8ppm.

This is on the Typhoon Extreme III. This is their top of the line for reefkeepers.

[VWD]

I never used airwaterice before, I have heard good reports on them. I myself like spectrapure RO/DI units. The only ones I have used.

mediabox sounds like you got a bad one, I know when you spend hard earn money it rough. But I think overall they build good units

[Loverotties]

Out of the two you said the 2nd one is better (two DI and one is veritcal and is better that way!

[Fat Tony]

Originally Posted by mediabox

Be careful with airwaterice. I picked one up just last week, as recommended by this site but they totally messed up mine. I am really fuming.

Two issues:

1) They installed the ASOV valve physically upside down and one pair of hoses to it were reversed. This caused about 3 days of water at about 5g/hr down the drain. Why didn't I reialize this eariler you ask. Becuase their instructions say it's normal to drain for 3 days while the air is still purging from the system. So now that I had to re-plumb, rotate the unit 180, and wait possibly another 3 days before it stops wasting water!?

2) The inline TDS meter measure the output of the RO stage and then the DI stage. This is really nice when I make DI water. Seeing how the filters are doing. Problem is when I make RO water the TDS probe is no longer in the flow of water!? I'm not sure if this is another mistake on my unit or just bad design. I hope for the company's sake it's another mistake. Anyhow if your wondering, this is a problem because when I make RO water the TDS meter show I have 80+ ppm, but in reality what's coming out of the pipe is 8ppm.

This is on the Typhoon Extreme III. This is their top of the line for reefkeepers.

Anyone can have an oops every now and then... it's a hand assembled item. But you have less oops out of AWI, BRS and places like that than you do out of the Chinese units from eBay (I actually have one of the purewaterclub units)

[yukon71839]

Has anyone used the 4 stage Coralife Pure-flowII that Drs. Fosters and Smith have? They are on sale right now for less than $150 with 5.99 shipping.

[chrisd]

my vote is for the AWI i have the extreme III 150 gpd. unit and it works great no problems and easy to hook up. i would add the booster pump as well to maxamize the output of the unit this is the one i have easy to hook up and runs quiet.
http://www.airwaterice.com/product/P...efkeepers.html

[Twitterbait]

Take a look at www.purewaterclub.com ... I got mine from them. it is a cheaper import but i still get 0tds and it works just as well as the others. They have some really well priced 6 stage filters and very cheap replacement filter sets.