Which RO

[mrb215]

I've been looking at ro's. I've come down to Lapierre, Airablo, Sringtech & D & G (I know airablo, springtech & D & G are the same but with there own changes). I'm looking at a min of 500gph I have around 3,500 taps and planning on expanding, I currently have a 500gph now I concentrate into the holding tank till i get 10% then send to the tank that feeds the evaporator. Any ideas please.

Moe

[syrup2nv]

We are running a new D&G HI BriX 1000gph. Only used it a handfull of times, so far so good. Works great. At it lowest, it will concentrate 8% @ 950gph!! 13% @ 750gph 16% @ 400ish, all 1 pass!! Pretty quiet too!! Heavy though!!

[mrb215]

Thanks. How much sap are you gathering or roughly how many taps

[sapman]

I think a 500 is way too small for you. Mine is 600, and takes way too long to concentrate, on 2200~ taps. Wish I could single pass, like they can with the D&G above. Is that a 2 post machine? Which membranes do you have?

[mrb215]

The guy at leader said a 600gph with high brix would probably run faster than the evaporator. He asked what my evaporator gph was I told him I've never Figured it out. That d & g 1000 has 2 membranes not sure wat kind probably filmtech.

[maplwrks]

I would go with a Lapierre 1200---The Lapierre call single pass to 16% all day long and will run you roughly 18 grand. The same Springtech, Airablo machine will be in excess of $20000. Just me, but I very partial to Lapierre machines, as they are easy to work on and operate. You won't need a high brix conversion to make high concentrate either. No extra charge for this!

[syrup2nv]

I would go with a Lapierre 1200---The Lapierre call single pass to 16% all day long and will run you roughly 18 grand. The same Springtech, Airablo machine will be in excess of $20000. Just me, but I very partial to Lapierre machines, as they are easy to work on and operate. You won't need a high brix conversion to make high concentrate either. No extra charge for this!

Our D&G has no add on for Hi brix! And it will also do 16% "all day"! VERY easy to operate. D&G offers a warranty also. Not fimilar with Lapeirre

[KZecher]

so i just read that blog and said the same thing we have a 600 gallon Ro and we need 240 to feed the evaporator and to concantrate to 10 % on it we need to run it when i bring in the first load in the morning and continue through out the day... my father is looking at a 1000gph but i think we should get a bigger one like a 1200. we bring in about 4-5000 gallons of sap on a average run... but i dont want to be dealing around with trying to satisfied a RO that is too small.. i guess we will be looking into the lapierre thanks for the reading

[Russell Lampron]

I am a fan of the Lapierre RO's as well. I beat the crap out of mine and it just keeps on concentrating. If you think that you need a 600gph machine get a 1200, you will grow into it. Big RO small evaporator is the way to go.

[chevypower]

We have been 100% happy with our H20 1200 gallon RO. The price was right and it can really pump the water out. Make sure you check them out before making your final decision.

[mrb215]

Can anybody give me an idea on how these companys are on parts?

[KZecher]

we have a 4x10 steam away and have change the pans around so its a 7 foot flue and a 3 foot front so it burns through 225 gph i like the idea of big RO and small evaporator... you can do just as much as a big one. but until next year we got a lot of cleaning to do.