Water Treatment Guidelines - Hypertherm HyPrecision 100D Instruction Manual

9.5 Water Treatment Guidelines:

Testing your inlet cutting water with a TDS meter allows you to quickly and effectively monitor the
quality of your inlet water and make adjustment accordingly.
High Quality Water
Good Quality Water
Medium Quality
Water
Poor Quality Water
Do not treat to 5 ppm or less: Water of this high of purity is overly aggressive and
will damage stainless steel components.
TDS < 50 ppm
50 ppm < TDS < 150 ppm
150 ppm < TDS < 250 ppm
TDS > 250 ppm
Silica > 15 ppm
No treatment
required
Contact local water treatment
Soften only
Soften or TDS
Specialist or RO system
removal
RO System available through
TDS removal
No action
specialist
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