Ever wondered what you could do to have the best water all the time no matter where you are? Well, we, David and Brenda, have done water purification with UV light but now have switched to Full Coach Reverse Osmosis (RO) with UV light! Want to know more, your in luck!
Tonight, Saturday 8/29, at 7PM ET join David and Michael (The “TurtleBubbles” Tech Guys…Don’t ask…LOL) as they Live Stream on YouTube as they talk about the Pro’s and Con’s of both systems and also talk about installing a full coach/RV RO system. The Live Chat Window will be open so you will also be able to ask questions if you would like.
Here is the link to Live Stream starting at 7PM ET… https://youtu.be/mXHNLveqryY
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Sounds cool but my gray tank already fills up too fast. I cannot imagine what the waste water from the RO process would do to reduce my boon docking time further ;)
Tune in an hear the answer! :) But in any case, seeing you are boon docking, you would not be waisting anything as you would have already filled your tank before you went out boon docking thus the RO is already made. (Usually boon docking mean no hookups at all.) But when hooked up, yes, there is waist water from the RO process. Seeing I like to close our Gray tank also, I drain the waist water right to the ground currently. (Or I can go to the gray tank and out as I have a value.) I will be running a line so I can send it out the hose however vs to the ground if I wanted.
Ah I see. From the chat it looks like you are mostly using this with hookups, but you can also fill your fresh water take with water from the RO system, for “true” boon docking when you have no hookups.
That sounds like a cool solution. I was thinking you have an RO system on just one faucet and created the RO purified water in real time (whether from the fresh water tank or the city water inlet) so I was worried about waste.
Hey David, nice setup. I figure you have not been boondocking much since you installed this, but was wondering if you would have any estimate how long it would take to refill your fresh water tank after you deplete it boondocking?
Hi…We can produce about 200 gallons of RO per day currently. So with an 80 gallon freshwater tank, about 8 hours. But I also can bypass the RO part and just do the main filters and then would drink water, as we did before, from the water purifier as we still have that in place. But that would only happen if we needed to fill the tank quickly. Good question! (Sorry for the duplicate response, I needed to restore our site from an upgrade issue and the backup was from before I replied so it was not in the database.)
Hello David, can you provide us an update on how your RO system is doing? Pro and Cons? Thanks
Hi Lance…It has been great thus far. No issues and lowest we have gone down is to 40% of the tank after washing the coach & car (I use the RO water for that with a pressure washer), two showers, and a load a laundry. So it has been working out great. Only ‘con’ is that that I like to keep our gray tank closed and the RO waste water goes into that and thus the gray tank I have to dump more. But that is no big deal seeing I have electronic dump valves as I can dump the tank from the inside. But when I know I will be making a lot of RO water as we will be doing laundry or what have you, I will just leave the gray tank open. Most who do full coach RO like this just leave the gray tank open until they start to get close to needing to dump the black, then then close the gray to get some water into it for flushing out the hose after. Hope this makes sense. :)
Thanks David, by the way. I was the guy you sold your Hex drone to back in 2014. Been following you ever since. Keep up the great work, always a pleasure to see the things you come up with.
Hi David,
I’m about to install a RO system like yours. Just ordered all the parts from RV Water Filter Store. Question: I’ve been using a water softener and was hoping I can get rid of that heavy piece of equipment. I read however that it will reduce the lifespan of the RO membranes. What’s your take on this? I know you had a water softener. Are you still using it? How much will it shorten the lifespan if I don’t use one?
Thanks,
Dan
I no longer use a water softener. They say it will shorten the live of the RO filter based on the salt needed to be cleared by the RO system that is left over from regenerating the water softener. But I have not found the need to have the softner when running all RO water. Hope this helps.