Water distillers are fine, but you run into the same things that
commercial distillers do that can mess up a batch of water.
A few procedural hints:
Use the purest source water you can find.
Remove post filters [they add impurities to enhance flavor]
Use a pre filter [charcoal, to remove most volatiles like chlorine and such
that will make it through a distiller ]
Discard the first cup that comes out. [To remove whatever volatiles the
charcoal missed ]
Don't fill it up all the way. [to prevent over boil that contaminates the
condensation tubes]
If it has a high/low setting, use low [same reason]
Water that's still not up to snuff can be double distilled. [send it back
through the same way, skip the pre filter]
Keep those condensation tubes cleaned out.
Distillers need maintenance. [The most likely reason that commercial
distilled water varies day by day ]
Rain water, collected at the right time and in the right way, can be pure
enough.
Use a clean non reactive surface..glass or clean plastic.
Let it rain for a while till the air is clean.
I have collected pretty pure water off a tin roof, done just right during
the right rain storm.
It depends some on where the clouds came from.
Ode
At 10:48 AM 5/25/2007 -0500, you wrote:
I was thinking about getting a water distiller, so wondering if you are
saying this is not a good thing?? I have to get some kind of a water
filter, as our water is contaminated. I am buying now.
Thanks,
Leslie
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Any sheet of plastic works and the water evaporates with sun
power....doesn't boil, doesn't need to.
In fact, boiling the water in a regular distiller is a good way to foul
the condenser.
Ode
At 10:59 PM 5/24/2007 +0200, you wrote:
Medwith, Robert wrote on 5/24/2007, 5:35 PM: [snipped]
> Easiest Solar unit is a plastic sheet over a hole in the ground, with a
rock to hold down center.
> A glass or jar under plastic sheet in center.
That's interesting, Bob. For the plastic sheet, do you mean something
similar to the thickness of a tarp?
How long does it usually take for the water to boil?
Thanks. Jodi
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