I love RO

[mol1jb]

Every year I keep daily detailed kitchen notes on items such as how much sap collected, sugar percent, how much wood used, how much syrup made and how much water removed with the RO. And every year after adding everything up I am always in awe at how much water my RO can remove from the sap we collect.

For example in the 2023 season I collected ~6550 gallons of sap over the season and removed removed ~5300 gallons of water with RO. So out of the 6550 gallons of sap collected I only boiled ~1250 on the evaporator! And if I work backwards with some rough math, not having to boil 5300 gallons at ~40 gph on my 2x6 evap I am saving over 132 hours of evaporator time as well as a massive amount of firewood savings!

I love RO!!

[Bucket Head]

They are an incredible sugaring tool! Way back before I got one, I was convinced I didn't need one. After I got one, I was convinced that sometimes I'm an idiot.
I was foolish for putting off the purchase.

I tell everyone to be very nice to their RO. It is their new best friend!

Steve

[ecp]

RO's and monitoring systems. I'd put those as the 2 largest game changers in the industry (I still have love for the traditionalists though).

[ennismaple]

RO's and monitoring systems. I'd put those as the 2 largest game changers in the industry (I still have love for the traditionalists though). Agreed - both are indispensable. I don't know how we lived without them. All our mainlines are now monitored for vacuum and with the tank sensors we know how much sap is in the tanks at all times and how fast it's running.

[ecp]

They way you would live without an RO and monitoring system is no sleep for 3 months. :lol: