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So I came into possession of a couple clack 0844 tanks that had been used for carbon filters. just a basic in/out head on them, no controller, no bypass or anything.
was hoping to be able to use one (or both) to build a saltless iron/H2S filter for my parents house up near Mt Pleasant MI.
My dad will *not* have a salt based system in his house. He doesn't like the taste of it. Trying to save mom some cleanup (rust stains), increase the life of aerators/faucets, and having to use iron out to keep the whites white - I grew up with a lot of socks and undies that were gone to rust well before I wore holes in them lol.
Thankfully its just iron and not iron bacteria (no iron slime anywhere present in the system, even decades old toilet tank upstairs) so I have that going for me.
So I'd like to be able to build them something that'll help with the rust stains and getting rid of the rotten egg smell they get if they use whole house carbon blocks - short of having them change the carbon every 2-3 weeks to keep the sulfur down.
Initially I was looking at using a Fleck 5600 backwash valve with my tanks, but it appears (from what I can find so far) that I'd almost need to have an air injection system along with the proper media (leaning towards KL-10).
Problem being - cost of an AIO head - by the time I purchase one of those + media I might as well just buy one of the complete budget systems online and toss my tanks to the curb. It eats any "savings" I had intended to realize by piecing the system together myself
In all my searching I found
Durawater Air Injection Iron Eater Filter.
There's a couple different brands in this price point - and although they use filter ag plus instead of KL-10
I will be putting in post iron filter a pair of big blue 20" housings on the filtration loop, with the intent of one carbon and one sediment - or maybe two carbons if its deemed better suited, but sediment/carbon to begin with at the start.
So my question is - am I missing something here? do I need to look at a different product/valve for my tanks?
Just buy the budget system and donate the tanks? Use the tank(s) as is for something else as part of the system that doesn't need backwash?
Thoughts and input would be highly appreciated!
PS: not concerned about flow - we've got TONS of that, and the physical plumbing side is covered too so I just need to figure out how to piece this system together in the most economical way possible.
Thanks in advance!
was hoping to be able to use one (or both) to build a saltless iron/H2S filter for my parents house up near Mt Pleasant MI.
My dad will *not* have a salt based system in his house. He doesn't like the taste of it. Trying to save mom some cleanup (rust stains), increase the life of aerators/faucets, and having to use iron out to keep the whites white - I grew up with a lot of socks and undies that were gone to rust well before I wore holes in them lol.
Thankfully its just iron and not iron bacteria (no iron slime anywhere present in the system, even decades old toilet tank upstairs) so I have that going for me.
So I'd like to be able to build them something that'll help with the rust stains and getting rid of the rotten egg smell they get if they use whole house carbon blocks - short of having them change the carbon every 2-3 weeks to keep the sulfur down.
Initially I was looking at using a Fleck 5600 backwash valve with my tanks, but it appears (from what I can find so far) that I'd almost need to have an air injection system along with the proper media (leaning towards KL-10).
Problem being - cost of an AIO head - by the time I purchase one of those + media I might as well just buy one of the complete budget systems online and toss my tanks to the curb. It eats any "savings" I had intended to realize by piecing the system together myself
In all my searching I found
Durawater Air Injection Iron Eater Filter.
There's a couple different brands in this price point - and although they use filter ag plus instead of KL-10
I will be putting in post iron filter a pair of big blue 20" housings on the filtration loop, with the intent of one carbon and one sediment - or maybe two carbons if its deemed better suited, but sediment/carbon to begin with at the start.
So my question is - am I missing something here? do I need to look at a different product/valve for my tanks?
Just buy the budget system and donate the tanks? Use the tank(s) as is for something else as part of the system that doesn't need backwash?
Thoughts and input would be highly appreciated!
PS: not concerned about flow - we've got TONS of that, and the physical plumbing side is covered too so I just need to figure out how to piece this system together in the most economical way possible.
Thanks in advance!