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I still have mine I think at my parents. My old Atari too. Maybe I should dust them off for the kids.
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Watching "Paranormal Caught on Camera" and I can't believe people actually believe the obvious fake stuff. TV is just so boring and fake anymore.
 

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Speaking of Blasphemy, I just asked Cody but I'll ask all y'all (and only ignore the ones I choose): what DI resin should I get.
The DI resin brand/kind isn't terribly important. What's most important is a TDS meter after it. I DO NOT recommend the color changing DI resin. It's a marketing ploy that I have 0% trust in reliability. I have used TDS meters for a long time and tried the color changing resin over the years to see which is the best indicator. The color changing aspect is worthless. It varies a lot between the color changing happening long before the resin is cashed to staying the right color long after it was depleted. DO NOT TRUST THE COLOR CHANGING RESIN. In the long run, you will save money on resin and corals by just buying the $20-30 inline TDS meter.

As far as the cation/antion situation, again, I believe it to be just another ploy to sell products. I did the math whenever those first hit the scene, and to break even it took something like 7 years to break even, and I use a lot of water (about 300 gallons a month). If you just stuck with what you had and used mixed bed over those 7 years while investing the cost difference at 5% return, you'll end up doing much better financially just using the mixed bed. Not to mention, given enough timeline, that resin will start leaching stuff back into the water. You're better off just using one or two mixed bed chambers (no more than that) and keeping them fresh.
 

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Some of them are cool. Some are rediculous. I like that these woods are haunted show. Some of the stories are bs and dumb but some seem legit.
 

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The DI resin brand/kind isn't terribly important. What's most important is a TDS meter after it. I DO NOT recommend the color changing DI resin. It's a marketing ploy that I have 0% trust in reliability. I have used TDS meters for a long time and tried the color changing resin over the years to see which is the best indicator. The color changing aspect is worthless. It varies a lot between the color changing happening long before the resin is cashed to staying the right color long after it was depleted. DO NOT TRUST THE COLOR CHANGING RESIN. In the long run, you will save money on resin and corals by just buying the $20-30 inline TDS meter.

As far as the cation/antion situation, again, I believe it to be just another ploy to sell products. I did the math whenever those first hit the scene, and to break even it took something like 7 years to break even, and I use a lot of water (about 300 gallons a month). If you just stuck with what you had and used mixed bed over those 7 years while investing the cost difference at 5% return, you'll end up doing much better financially just using the mixed bed. Not to mention, given enough timeline, that resin will start leaching stuff back into the water. You're better off just using one or two mixed bed chambers (no more than that) and keeping them fresh.
i have the BRS 7 stage. It has 3 chambers for the DI stage. should i go with the mixed bed in the three chambers, or just leave one chamber empty and put mixed bed in two of the chambers?
 

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I'm not going to knock the paranormal for people that believe, but Bigfoot would have skeletal remains found unless other bigfoot try and find deceased ones and carry the corpses away from civilization to dump into who knows where.

As for ghosts, it's funny how the notion of ghosts are all 19th century children or whatever. Humans have died under circumstances that would call for "haunting" (ie. Malice, tragic circumstances etc) since humans have existed. If ghosts were real, everything would be haunted and I doubt you'd understand them. Would be funny to see cavemen ghosts that got clobbered for stealing food haunting you in your bedroom since that was once his cave.
 

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i have the BRS 7 stage. It has 3 chambers for the DI stage. should i go with the mixed bed in the three chambers, or just leave one chamber empty and put mixed bed in two of the chambers?
You could...and rotate the chambers as you replace resin.
 

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The DI resin brand/kind isn't terribly important. What's most important is a TDS meter after it. I DO NOT recommend the color changing DI resin. It's a marketing ploy that I have 0% trust in reliability. I have used TDS meters for a long time and tried the color changing resin over the years to see which is the best indicator. The color changing aspect is worthless. It varies a lot between the color changing happening long before the resin is cashed to staying the right color long after it was depleted. DO NOT TRUST THE COLOR CHANGING RESIN. In the long run, you will save money on resin and corals by just buying the $20-30 inline TDS meter.

As far as the cation/antion situation, again, I believe it to be just another ploy to sell products. I did the math whenever those first hit the scene, and to break even it took something like 7 years to break even, and I use a lot of water (about 300 gallons a month). If you just stuck with what you had and used mixed bed over those 7 years while investing the cost difference at 5% return, you'll end up doing much better financially just using the mixed bed. Not to mention, given enough timeline, that resin will start leaching stuff back into the water. You're better off just using one or two mixed bed chambers (no more than that) and keeping them fresh.
I buy my mixed DI resin off Amazon, l usually skip the cheapest, but non brand name with good reviews. I use a dual stage DI, and inline TDS meters.

I should probably put one between the 2 stages, maybe I will one day, but I change mine when the first stage has completely changed and once the second is about 1/4 changed. Then swap 2nd to first and new resin in 2nd.
 

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I'm not going to knock the paranormal for people that believe, but Bigfoot would have skeletal remains found unless other bigfoot try and find deceased ones and carry the corpses away from civilization to dump into who knows where.

As for ghosts, it's funny how the notion of ghosts are all 19th century children or whatever. Humans have died under circumstances that would call for "haunting" (ie. Malice, tragic circumstances etc) since humans have existed. If ghosts were real, everything would be haunted and I doubt you'd understand them. Would be funny to see cavemen ghosts that got clobbered for stealing food haunting you in your bedroom since that was once his cave.
I've seen some crazy isht..don't know if it was ghostly as much as maybe a parallel thing.
 

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I'm not going to knock the paranormal for people that believe, but Bigfoot would have skeletal remains found unless other bigfoot try and find deceased ones and carry the corpses away from civilization to dump into who knows where.

As for ghosts, it's funny how the notion of ghosts are all 19th century children or whatever. Humans have died under circumstances that would call for "haunting" (ie. Malice, tragic circumstances etc) since humans have existed. If ghosts were real, everything would be haunted and I doubt you'd understand them. Would be funny to see cavemen ghosts that got clobbered for stealing food haunting you in your bedroom since that was once his cave.
you live in a cave? (since you said your bedroom used to be the cave for cavemen)
 

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i have the BRS 7 stage. It has 3 chambers for the DI stage. should i go with the mixed bed in the three chambers, or just leave one chamber empty and put mixed bed in two of the chambers?
I have a custom 8 stage with three chambers set up for DI resin and TDS meters after literally every stage. I did this because I wanted to see how the system truly works with time, and three DI chambers because I like symmetry haha

I put mixed bed in two of them and leave one empty. Slightly before the second is cashed, the first will start leaching TDS back into the water. Once the second is cashed, time to change. I typically change when the second DI chamber gets above 3ppm and have had zero issues.

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I'm not going to knock the paranormal for people that believe, but Bigfoot would have skeletal remains found unless other bigfoot try and find deceased ones and carry the corpses away from civilization to dump into who knows where.

As for ghosts, it's funny how the notion of ghosts are all 19th century children or whatever. Humans have died under circumstances that would call for "haunting" (ie. Malice, tragic circumstances etc) since humans have existed. If ghosts were real, everything would be haunted and I doubt you'd understand them. Would be funny to see cavemen ghosts that got clobbered for stealing food haunting you in your bedroom since that was once his cave.
Did Aziz have a comedy bit about that? Basically, there aren't any ghosts asking for the wifi password.
 

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