03-09-2015, 09:22 AM
If I understand you correctly Richard;
RO water has been reduced of minerals as it passes through the filters and the membrane. This water is now hungry and "looking" to absorb whatever minerals are available. Copper lends itself to at least some of those minerals and this results in the degradation of our sweated copper plumbing as well as possibly other metallic items say faucets etc.
If this is correct then those of us with metallic plumbing should stay away from an entire RO system.
As a note I was looking in to using a Water Softener and found that the Salts used to regenerate the resins will also lead to corrosion of copper plumbing
RO water has been reduced of minerals as it passes through the filters and the membrane. This water is now hungry and "looking" to absorb whatever minerals are available. Copper lends itself to at least some of those minerals and this results in the degradation of our sweated copper plumbing as well as possibly other metallic items say faucets etc.
If this is correct then those of us with metallic plumbing should stay away from an entire RO system.
As a note I was looking in to using a Water Softener and found that the Salts used to regenerate the resins will also lead to corrosion of copper plumbing
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