{"id":2288,"date":"2026-03-11T16:19:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T21:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/?p=2288"},"modified":"2026-03-11T16:19:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T21:19:49","slug":"membrane-ph-wash-cycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/?p=2288","title":{"rendered":"Membrane pH Wash Cycle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mid-30s overnight. Cloudy with light rain turning to light snow by 11:00 AM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Into the woods by 11:00 AM to prepare the pH wash. But the yesterday\u2019s wash cycle was still running. Only reached 110 in almost 20 hours. Not sure why. The spare membrane was from a different manufacturer that has different specifications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We let the R\/O cool for three hours before rinsing. Didn\u2019t want to shock the sensors with cold water while the R\/O was 110. Waited for it to cool to the 50s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Swapped back the FilmTec membrane then prepared the pH wash. We got a digital pH meter to better dose the wash water. We want 11-12 pH with closer to 12 pH better. Settled at 11.6 pH. We hope the pH wash restores membrane performance. Better sap will help too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back and forth from the farmhouse to the woods several times rinsing, swapping and preparing the pH wash cycle. Done for the day by 4:00 PM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mid-30s overnight. Cloudy with light rain turning to light snow by 11:00 AM. Into the woods by 11:00 AM to prepare the pH wash. But the yesterday\u2019s wash cycle was still running. Only reached 110 in almost 20 hours. Not sure why. The spare membrane was from a different manufacturer that has different specifications. We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2026-season-109"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2289,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288\/revisions\/2289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}