RO Bucket filter system

[DRoseum]

In general, the more DE the better, but do not over fill your syrup with a volume of DE that cannot fit in the filter cavity. That inline filter i recommended holds ~6+ cups of DE.

[eustis22]

so curious thing today with the RO....a brand new 400 GPD MES membrane with about 60 gallons run thru it at approx 130 PSI....2% going in, 2% going out, and broke out to 45 gallons concentrate and 15 gallons permeate coming out. I would have thought 1:1 at worst, not 3:1 concentrate to permeate. Checked the sugar on the permeate bucket, it was 0. I considered that I may have had the ports on the membrane housing swapped out but left is concentrate, center is permeate, right?

[DRoseum]

Normally with ports down, permeate is center and concentrate is slightly up to the right.

[DRoseum]

Finally made a video about the stainless inline filter version I built:
https://youtu.be/TZPiSihC5_Y

I normally use this for filtering whats in my evaporator pans, and my Smoky Lake filter press (in a totally seperate building) for finished syrup filtering and bottling.

However this does work great for filtering finished syrup as shown in the video.

[CTguy923]

so i finally got to use my RO filter system a couple weeks ago, one thing i noticed is , i needed to have the container i was filtering into lower then the heated canner other wise i couldnt get the syrup to come out the blue hose, is this normal ?