Ever hear of Technopure

sisu · Mar 3, 2008

Need a filter system

I'm in need of a new filter system. Looked at the Technopure system at the
Boston home show 3-1-08. I like the idea of no salt one less monthly gotta do project .I hope Eric responds and clears up any uncertainty.It sounds like a system for the 2000's after all everything else is advancing.

My water analisys

Iron 6.00 mg/l
Manganese 0.173 mg/l
ph 6.49 units
turbidity 17.58 ntu

Alternety · Mar 3, 2008

Hmmmmmmmmm

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Bob NH · Mar 3, 2008

sisu said:
I'm in need of a new filter system. Looked at the Technopure system at the Boston home show 3-1-08. I like the idea of no salt one less monthly gotta do project .I hope Eric responds and clears up any uncertainty.It sounds like a system for the 2000's after all everything else is advancing.

My water analisys

Iron 6.00 mg/l
Manganese 0.173 mg/l
ph 6.49 units
turbidity 17.58 ntu

The iron, manganese, and turbidity of your water are all in the range of "very bad". The pH is so low that it will corrode your plumbing and risk causing excessive copper contamination of your water. I am trying to get information on the Technopure system but I doubt that it will solve those problems.
http://www.epa.gov/safewater/consumer/2ndstandards.html

Speedbump · Mar 4, 2008

I seriously doubt it too. What do they claim this Technopure system will do. Do they tout it as a water softener also?

bob...

Alternety · Mar 4, 2008

Bob, you might want to read their site to get the flavor of the site. As an example, their have an arsenic removal system has two tanks (Brim and carbon) with one of their devices on each side of the two tanks. Cost $6K. Look under well water home system.

Incidentally my Hmmmmm above was for the sudden absence of the sales rep.

Speedbump · Mar 4, 2008

I'll take a look at it tomorrow at work. That mention of no salt is starting to sound very familiar.

The no salt softener has been around for some time too. Don't quote me on the spelling but instead of salt, you use Potassium Chloride I believe it is. More expensive does less than salt, but it's not exactly salt is it?

bob...

Alternety · Mar 4, 2008

There are products for pools (which is my primary interest for this thing) that take a similar approach. They generate silver ions and they generate chlorine in the device to provide oxidation of bad organics. These require that you make the pool water salty. The salt is the chlorine source. I believe they reduce the chlorine before it leaves their device (I think, don't quote me) so the pool does not smell of chlorine. The other side of this is that to keep clear water, the entire contents of the pool must pass through the filter in some period of time. This implies more pumping time that needed for a system with a residual oxidizer such as chlorine or bromine. These devices tend to be rather pricey as well.

Jdoll42 · Mar 4, 2008

speedbump said:
Don't quote me on the spelling but instead of salt, you use Potassium Chloride I believe it is. More expensive does less than salt, but it's not exactly salt is it?

From a chemistry point of view, "table salt" is sodium chloride. If you drop to the next period in group 1 of the periodic table (below sodium), you are at potassium. By itself, potassium tends to be a bit more reactive than sodium, but will bond with chlorine in much the same way as sodium. Long story short: potassium chloride is a salt.

Now can you go to the "big box" store and buy it off the shelf? Doubt it. My guess is it's not the easiest thing in the world to find.

sisu · Mar 4, 2008

Technopure

http://www.technopure.com/well_water.html

Check it out

sisu · Mar 4, 2008

techonopure

O my where is Eric when you need him

Will it be the same after the sale

Speedbump · Mar 5, 2008

Their units are re-beddable but softeners are not? Where did they come up with this.

My next question is how do they claim to be softening the water? As near as I can tell, all they are doing is removing iron and manganize and odor.

bob...

Rancher · Mar 5, 2008

I think we scared Eric off.

Oh well, another snake-oil saleman down and out.

Rancher

Speedbump · Mar 5, 2008

Oh well, another snake-oil saleman down and out.

Yup, he's no doubt figured out his BS wasn't flying here.

bob...

Gary Slusser · Mar 5, 2008

sisu said:
I'm in need of a new filter system. Looked at the Technopure system at the
Boston home show 3-1-08. I like the idea of no salt one less monthly gotta do project .I hope Eric responds and clears up any uncertainty.It sounds like a system for the 2000's after all everything else is advancing.

My water analisys

Iron 6.00 mg/l
Manganese 0.173 mg/l
ph 6.49 units
turbidity 17.58 ntu

That equipment is not going to remove 6 ppm of iron. Neither will a softener. You will need an iron filter or some other type of treatment, and that might be part of the additional 'stuff' included with their ionizer but.... I've seen ionizers used on pools and they work very well but I've never seen one used one 'potable' water.

The acceptable EPA range for pH is 6.5 to 8.5 but anything below 7.0 is acidic. You may or may not want to buffer your acid but your water is acidic enough to corrode metals.

You don't mention the hardness in your water.

You can use regular water treatment and spend thousands less than the Technopure.

Bob NH · Mar 5, 2008

EricHalnon said:
Hello everyone,

Bob NH, we would be more then happy to talk with you. Please get me your contact information and I will get one of the more tech savvy members to get in touch with you as I don't speak "engineer" fluently. We would love to work with you on this testing so please get back to me.

Regards,

Eric Halnon
TechnoPure

No technical person from TechnoPure has contacted me since I replied by PM on February 28.

Alternety · Mar 5, 2008

I have been trying to see if they are part of another company or what they have at their address. So far it looks like the address on their web site is an office building. There are a couple other, aparantly unrelated, companies listed. Curiously, not them. YMMV in searching.

It does rather feel like they were scared off. Not even an "I am gathering the information you have asked for, or buzz off we are doing fine without you, or I am busy and I will get back to you".

Dunbar Plumbing · Mar 5, 2008

Bob NH said:
No technical person from TechnoPure has contacted me since I replied by PM on February 28.

The Yahoo! Slurp spiders, google spiders along with msn and Ask Jeeves spiders

are on this site like white on rice when it comes to content.

Sooooo....what will happen indirectly is that these searches will embed themselves directly into keyword searches on this product, the tag lines along with the content of the body of this thread will be in plain view for all to see that his time here was detrimental and not uplifting to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

I see nothing clamped or installed into a potable water system that can effectively treat water given the flow rates of when the plumbing is used.

What sucks is that people are sold this stuff, it becomes a mental move more than a realistic or factual move.

Meaning the placebo effect when you give 12 people medicine and some of them were given non-medicine medication to see if they "thought" they felt better.

Very telling how the mind can sense improvement when there really is none...

Alternety · Mar 5, 2008

The thing about mind is silly. I KNOW my car runs better after I change oil and wax it.

Dunbar Plumbing · Mar 5, 2008

alternety said:
The thing about mind is silly. I KNOW my car runs better after I change oil and wax it.

Oh heck yeah! Waxing it makes the air slicker when your going down the road, makes it go faster and better gas mileage!

Alternety · Mar 5, 2008

Rides better too.

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