Originally Posted by
Harveythekoi
It takes more carbon, or at least exposure time to grab chloramines. Chlorine is instant and the flows can be greater through the same amount of AC.
I only found one site that mentioned the ammonia being released. They did make specific mention of fish keepers and that the ammonia would need to be handled also.
So far I've come up with about 6' of carbon needed at a fairly slow filter rate to handle chloramines. I'll do the conversions and see what it comes out to for my flow.
Next to find out what zeolite can adsorb ammonia wise and go from there to size it. Because there's also a lot of solids in our water the filter will have to be backwashable. Piping a blower into that wouldn't be hard.
In the end though I have a feeling it will have to be too large and a lot of work to make this feasible.
Garrett
The a/c filter I have on incoming water is about six feet tall, and about a foot to a foot and a half in diameter. Its plumbed into the incoming line permanently.
Size is not a problem when there are as many benefits as we get from the a/c... I'm a believer.
I backwash it about once every six months. And get sludge off - red sludge because of all the iron removal.
The flow is comparable, but a little less than city water flow.
(compared to the house which has a softener, but not an a/c filter).
Not a significant difference.
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