I am strongly thinking of moving my RO/DI filter and water storage out of my office and fish room to the crawl space (actually it's an "almost standing" space) of my house. A big motivation in this is to use the waste water for watering the garden rather than sending it down the drain and also to reduce the clutter in my office.
I am stuck though on how to get the water from the unpressurized storage tank up to my office. There is a conduit I can use to run a 1/4" supply line up from the crawl space. It will have to go up two stories and about 20 meters total travel. I can't run a large 100gph pump because I can't use anything larger than the 1/4" supply line. For this much head height at the small 1/4" tubing size I don't believe that a regular pump will work anyway. I could use a peristaltic pump if I was only going to do ATO but I also need to do water changes and the duty cycle on peristaltic pumps I have looked at would require days to fill my water change brute container without burning out the pump.
Ideas?
I am stuck though on how to get the water from the unpressurized storage tank up to my office. There is a conduit I can use to run a 1/4" supply line up from the crawl space. It will have to go up two stories and about 20 meters total travel. I can't run a large 100gph pump because I can't use anything larger than the 1/4" supply line. For this much head height at the small 1/4" tubing size I don't believe that a regular pump will work anyway. I could use a peristaltic pump if I was only going to do ATO but I also need to do water changes and the duty cycle on peristaltic pumps I have looked at would require days to fill my water change brute container without burning out the pump.
Ideas?