Jonathan Aquilina <eagles051...@gmail.com> wrote: >also would distilled water collected from dehumidifiers be > non conductive as well?
Well "non-conductive" is a relative term, it won't be as conductive as ocean water, nor as non-conductive as you want for this application. Any type of ions in the fluid will drive the conductivity up, and if all you are doing is precipitating water out of the air with a typical commercial A/C component it will not be very clean. Labs that need really clean water usually distill it multiple times or put it through a chain of filters. Some of these systems have a resistivity meter at the end, as that's an easy way to check that the water is as pure as is needed. We had a system like that when I was in grad school, and the water just sitting in it would increase in conductivity over time as ions leached out of the internal parts. So when it was turned on the first part of the flow would be quite conductive, and it would be directed into the sink. Only when the meter showed the water was clean enough would water be collected. Regards, David Mathog mat...@caltech.edu Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
