C02 in ro/di water

[tjstank]

I have a community well for water n have been burning thru di cartridges. I ordered a c02 test kit from spectrapure n my test results are 50 ppm. What is a acceptable range for co2 ? I'm assuming it's the lower the better. I'm gonna try areating the water n see how much it comes down

 

[jsker]

Bump

 

[tjstank]

Bump anybody ?

 

[TheEngineer]

Certainly sounds like high CO2. I seem to recall that each ppm of CO2 is equivalent to a PPM of TDS. So that's like putting 50ppm water into your DI cartridge. That will run it down in a hurry.

I have high CO2 in my well water also. I degas my RO for 24 hours and my DI lasts for quite a while now. I get 1 ppm out of my RO.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

50 ppm will deplete the DI faster than you'd prefer and I'd suggest degassing if possible.

 

[tjstank]

Thank you I will have to degas water before running through different cartridges.