I need a little help with water maker usage and maintenance,
please.
Cream Puff has a 24v D60 water-maker. My problem is we seem
to be going through membranes at the rate of a pair a year. I have read where
others have used the same set of membranes for years and still get drinkable
water. This is not the case with us. We are in our 5th year of full time
cruising and are now on our 6th set of membranes.
When I last change membranes in Colombia, this was about
March 2019. Our current membranes are just over a year old. The PPMs are
starting to creep up a bit now and we have gone from the 300 range to the 500
range. We notice a change in drinking quality over 600 PPMs. This is when we
usually change the membranes.
We run the water-maker at least once a week when in a
marina, flush it with the fresh water rinse. I have a double charcoal filter
set up for the tank rinse. When on anchor it is run just about every day. I am
careful to watch the pressure and water making float gauge. I normally set it
at 55 liters per hour and this put the pressure in lower side of the green
range.
Any ideas why our membranes are not lasting or why our PPMs
creep up?
