WFP long-term storage

I pretty much subsisted on route work and single-story homes this whole summer, and my WFP didn’t get used very much at all, which got me thinking…

If you know your WFP system is going to be sitting around for any extended period of time, how do you store it so as to prevent mold, mildew and the like? Also, do resin and other filtration elements degrade appreciably during long periods of inactivity?

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@Jersey or @John

Get some of that stuff for the RO then if you don’t put the other stuff in the DI resin, just plan on tossing it out. Replacement resin is pretty cheap.

Or you could flush the system every two weeks like the manual supposedly says.

If Ro it needs RO protection and control temps. DI can not freeze but has
a long self life

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I’m not worried about freezing as I live in the [sub]topics and local temperature pretty much never gets below 35° or 40°F.

Winter is my peak season, and summer is when it would get shelved for any appreciable length of time. Thanks!

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Then you need the RO protect so you do not get what we call flowering on
the RO membrane. Just keep the RO wet and have RO protect in the water and
you will be good.

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Ok. How long does it take for flowering to occur?

And no worries about mildew or mold?

Depends but in a dark and wet environment which is what you have inside the
housing it can grow pretty fast in stagnant water

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Yeah but it’s mainly the Di that you have to worry about right? Ligenella?