Build a homewaterdistiller, how?

[Guest]

You could just build a rain barrel and collect natures own distilled water!
Ok, it's a really rainy morning, and I looked out and thought, gallons of free distilled water!! Guess I've been a papper too long.

[DreamDiver]

You could just build a rain barrel and collect natures own distilled water!
Ok, it's a really rainy morning, and I looked out and thought, gallons of free distilled water!! Guess I've been a papper too long.

Guest - send some of that rain my way. We're in a drought.

[Nodzy]

Yeah... tap water is the beverage most consumed by people in developed countries through 'fridge chill-taps, 'fridge ice, water fountains and straight from the tap. Most people do not run their home water through additional filters before drinking it, or even change their 'fridge water filter often enough. And few people will spring for 'fridge filters, or whole-house water filtration, that claims to remove the majority of harmful chemicals from the water, because of their much higher cost.

Too, we're told that the fragrances added to household cleaners, and many other chemical concoctions, make them more pleasant and less offensive. The problem is... the instant your mind registers the fragrance, the chemicals carried in what you just breathed-in are heading into your bloodstream. And we know that (right?), as many doctors believe and relate to patients, the body fends off and expels such foreign substances. Of course that is in-part true, but substantially false.

Humankind is the only known species that can knowingly create multiple synthetic toxins, or toxic concoctions, and which will put them on its own menu, and the menu of every other living entity on the planet.

If Mother Nature was an entity, and could speak in a way we could comprehend.... she'd probably call us... "disgusting vandals."

Nodzy

[4UTGJP]

Distiller - most of us already have one, that fills our hoses with distilled water nightly. It's an hc150.

Why not buy a new chamber for the HC 150 ($12.00) (you know you probably need one anyway)
In the morning, put the old chamber filled with tap water on the HC150 base, use the 24 inch hose between it and the new chamber. Place the new chamber at a lower level, and put a household fan blowing on the 24 inch connecting hose.

Turn the hc150 heat up to #5, and turn the fan on to cool the hose.

By bedtime, all the water should have distilled into the new, clean chamber, and be ready to switch onto the heater base and attach to the cpap. It should have no problem evaporating a chamber full of water in the 16 hours we are awake.

This would be easier for traveling than hauling around a jug of distilled water - just take an extra chamber.

[DreamStalker]

RO itself does not remove ions ... ie minerals in solution that are capble of precipitating out as HH vaporizes the H2O.

Some RO systems have a secondary water treatment subsytsem that does remove ions (deionization) but those systems are very expensive and not at all efficient w/ regard to financial or environmental cost/benefits.

Your typical plastic jug of distilled water from your grocer is by far the most efficient and effective method of for refilling your CPAP HH.

Also, the reason for using distilled water (as Tom tried to point out) is not for protecting you from harmful bugs or vapors

... but rather to protect the "humidifier" from mineral deposits.


For human consumption, RO is perfectly fine as are many other types of treated water sources.

[Guest]

Distiller - most of us already have one, that fills our hoses with distilled water nightly. It's an hc150.

Why not buy a new chamber for the HC 150 ($12.00) (you know you probably need one anyway)
In the morning, put the old chamber filled with tap water on the HC150 base, use the 24 inch hose between it and the new chamber. Place the new chamber at a lower level, and put a household fan blowing on the 24 inch connecting hose.

Turn the hc150 heat up to #5, and turn the fan on to cool the hose.

By bedtime, all the water should have distilled into the new, clean chamber, and be ready to switch onto the heater base and attach to the cpap. It should have no problem evaporating a chamber full of water in the 16 hours we are awake.

This would be easier for traveling than hauling around a jug of distilled water - just take an extra chamber.

I forgot to mention, save those little blue caps from the new chamber to cap off the second hole on each chamber, or you could add a second hose between them.