Do You Have Hard Water?
Hard water can cause scale build-up on the UV lamp which decreases the efficacy of the ultraviolet process. "Hard water" means the water coming into your home is high in calcium or magnesium. Hard water should be treated with a water softener before the water enters the UV chamber. If left untreated, these minerals can coat the quartz sleeve and impede the UV disinfection process.
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Quality of Water Before the UV System
To keep a UV system functioning at peak performance, it’s important to know what contaminants are in your water before installing a UV water filter system. To understand what's in your water, refer to the Consumer Confidence Report (CCR) available from your water supplier July 1 each year. If you're on a private well water, we highly recommend testing your water. Learn more about water testing from the EPA website.
Because high levels of hardness, iron, and sediment may not allow the UV system to properly treat the water, we recommend the incoming water to the UV system meet the following parameters:
Hardness < 7 grains per gallon
Iron < 0.3 parts per million
Manganese < 0.05 parts per million
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Turbidity < 1 NTU
Tannins < 0.1 parts per million
UV Transmittance > 75%
If your water does not meet the above parameters before entering the UV chamber, then pre-treatment equipment may be necessary.
The way that UV works best it to give it sufficient time to sit inside the reaction chamber to be bombarded with UV. So what you will want to do is get an airstone an air pump and a small 40 gph submersible pump and attach it to the Pondmaster and then place those all into your water tank making sure that the exit end of the UV is pointing upward to create a flooming effect. After you fill it up, turn them on and give it 24 hours for city chlorine and other shit in your water to evaporate. Then Ph your water and add bleach. Added points if you have a chiller on a cool coil manifold loop to throw a leg into your water tank to cool it down to 65 or so. I know you are looking for a one shot remedy, and for that you will need to spend into the thousands. For the rest of us mere mortals, just be a little patient and let your water have some dwell time. Your plants will never be able to thank you enough because you have done everything possible to give them the best quality water they could ever get and you will have a run with ZERO problems with your water or water related issues.
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