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One of My Favourite Water Distillers For the Home
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Jan 25, 2024
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In this video, I want to give you a tour of the home water distiller that I have at my place
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This is it here. We're in my basement. We're on a private well
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So this is our pressure tank. Over here is our whole house carbon filter
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And then this is the hydrogen peroxide pump, which helps to improve water quality here
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But right now, I want to tell you about the distiller. The brand is aquanui
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It's made in the US. I've been using this for a number of months
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We get all of our drinking water from this now. It's performed really well
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And I want to give you a tour of how it works
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Why I think distilled water is a superior drink compared with tap water
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And then also show you quantitatively, with a meat. the difference that a distiller makes. The top half of the unit is where the actual distillation
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happens. There's a boiling tank in there and some controls and we're going to take a close look
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at that. The bottom half is a reservoir. So from this joint down, this is where the distilled
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water is held. So this is an automatic distiller, which means it fills itself up as needed
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It boils as needed until this reservoir is full. So it's going to chug away day
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and night working to keep this full. When it is full, it's going to shut off and wait until the level drops
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So that's the beauty of the automatic system. The output of distilled water is much greater than with countertop models
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And let's just take a look now on the inside and see what we've got
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So my first step is to pull the unit out and show you how it's connected to the water supply
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I'm going to unplug it here. This distiller runs from an ordinary 120
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volt outlet and in the back there's a little tubing that you can see back
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the tubeing the tubing connects to the water supply pipe in the same way that a
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water dispenser in a fridge ice maker in a fridge would work and that
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there's a saddle this is kind of a generic thing you can get this at any
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hardware store there's a saddle that pinches the pipe The tubing connects to it, and then when you do this, when you tighten this down for the first time, it actually punctures into the copper
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It doesn't need a very large flow rate, so this little tubing works just fine
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And in this case, it's connected to an activated charcoal filter, activated carbon, that pre-filters the water before it goes in
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There's a similar carbon filter on the tail end of the process too that
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carbon filters the water after distillation. So we getting carbon filtration distillation and then a final carbon filtration just to make sure that there no volatile organic compounds in that distilled water is perfectly pure So I moved the distiller into my workshop so we can get a better look at things And the way you get into the unit is from the back
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So I think you'll find this interesting, but this is also the process that a person would have to go through
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for regular maintenance of a distiller like this. It doesn't take a lot of maintenance
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but there are some things that need to be done because of the buildup of minerals inside the unit. I mean it's basically separating
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minerals from water of a distiller like this. This here is called the boiling tank and if you look here you can see a small
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tube coming in here. This supplies the boiling tank with water. I'm going to open it up and you're going to be able to see it
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close up inside there's a float in there water goes in boiling happens here steam comes off of here
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and the steam runs through this coil for cooling because the cooling is very important
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well it's it's essential to convert the steam to water now operating through the coil on the
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top here is a fan so so air is constantly flowing over the coil, promoting the condensation of steam into liquid water again
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And the liquid water comes out here at the end of the coil
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You can see. And then it goes down into this silicone tube and then down into the back there, another carbon filter that then empties into the storage tank
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So that's the process in a nutshell and we need to take off these fittings here, these tubes
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in order to pull the boiling tank out so you can see what's going on inside
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So as you can see the boiling tank is insulated. The tank itself is stainless steel. Everything about this distaste
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is stainless steel where it counts. And let's just take a look inside
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This is, as I said, this is where the water, tap water enters
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This is the nutshell of the process right here. In a sense, this distiller is creating something like rainwater, except it's 100% pure rainwater, unlike regular rainwater, which might pick up things from the atmosphere
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So boiling happens in here and there's a float that you can see
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The float senses how much water is in the tank and it adds more water until it full before it kicks into the boiling process So also inside here is a heating element which is about a thousand watts or so and that what triggers the boiling And it all happens in this sealed tank with this gasket here because the only thing you want to happen with the steam is that it leaves this port here and then it goes into the cooling coil
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That's what this is all about. Now after a lot of use, it's
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It's important to treat the inside of this with a vinegar solution or some other solution to remove the mineral buildup
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Because in a sense, this tank is kind of like the dead sea, and that water goes in, water with minerals goes in, but only water without minerals leaves, which means that the minerals are left behind here in the tank
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That's what's going on here. The electricity is essentially separating the minerals from the water, and that's what we drink in the distilled water
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So one of the maintenance items, other than taking this apart and treating it with something to remove that scale buildup, once in a long time, it doesn't have to happen very often
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But maybe every two or three weeks, you actually want to shut off the supply of water to the tank
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And this isn't at the back of the machine, this valve. And you want to open this up to drain out the water that's in here, the remaining water that's in here
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because, as they said, the minerals are constantly rising in concentration in this tank
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because that's where the separation occurs. Now, I want to show you the difference in water quality that this makes using a meter
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So let's go and take a look. So here we've got three glasses of water
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They look identical. And this is a meter that measures the total dissolved solids and expresses it in parts per million
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That's what the PPM there stands for. So this is our tap water and let's see what happens here
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Okay, to 13 hearts per million. That's about what I expect. It does vary
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Sometimes it's in the high 200s. Sometimes it's in the low 200s
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Now, distilled water by comparison. Well, it is registering one, one part per million kind of
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Normally it's zero, one part per million is still pretty well nothing
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So you can see that the bulk of the minerals from the tap water have been removed and the distilled
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Now this is some water from the boiling tank because as I said, those minerals build up there
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And it's been a couple of weeks since I drained the boiling tank and replaced the water with some water
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some fresh so let take a look See by comparison Okay almost 1450 1442 parts per million So you can see what the distiller does And it not anything that you can see with your eye but it is significant when you examine water chemistry So why does all this matter Well I not concerned about chemical contamination and I well I live in the middle of nowhere
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My well is drilled in bedrock. There's no chemical contamination there. But there is plenty of minerals
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And I think this is of concern. And I want to prove it to you
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If I go inside here, I mean, I'm just pulling out these. These are chunks of minerals
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This is mineral that my family would have ingested if it wasn't for this
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And that's only over the course of a couple of months. Now, you might say, well, don't we need minerals
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I mean, this is probably mostly calcium and magnesium. Those are things we need, right
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The problem with this calcium and magnesium is that it's of a chemical form that your body has a hard time dealing with
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And that's one of the benefits of drinking distilled water is that you're not overloading your body with minerals that it has to work at to get rid of in order for you to be healthy
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So the water has more solvent capabilities when it's distilled because it doesn't already have minerals in it
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So it can function as a more potent solvent and purifying agent in your body
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But the distilled water is also not leaving this stuff behind. People like Thomas Edison, Dr. Mayo, the men, one of the two brothers that started the Mayo Clinic
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I mean, they're all on record as saying that it's harmful to ingest this sort of thing
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They were both big believers in drinking distilled water. When you do ingest this, it usually goes in two places
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It can go in the joints, in your joints, making them painful. Your body's trying to get rid of this stuff
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And so it'll find any nook and cranny you can, including your joints. This is the stuff that makes up kidney stones
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So you see your body has to get rid of this. So the beauty of the distiller is that it gets rid of it ahead of time
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So it can function for your body is absolutely pure rainwater in a sense
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So the distillers back in place. It's reconnected to the water and I'm doing that sterilization cycle
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Can you hear it? The difference is that the heating element is on
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So on the side here you can see there's power and that's turned on. but the fan is turned off so there's no significant cooling of the condensation
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coil going on so live steam is going from the boiling box boiling chamber into
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the storage area here and that's that's hot so I've had this running for a few
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hours and I like to do this to sterilize everything when I've had it apart
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because if it's sterile when you button it up it's going to stay sterile for a
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long time and I won't have to do this again until I tear it down and clean all of that
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ugly old mineral out of the boiling chamber. Well I hope you have found this video useful
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and interesting. If you have any questions about drinking distilled water or about the
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aquanui water distillers, just drop me an email and I'll be happy to help
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