Distiller vs deionised

[Wezzel]

I've just bought a cheapie ph meter from Ebay. The instructions say to clean the electrodes with distilled water but to mix the buffet solutions with deionised water.

Is this usual? Could I use distilled for both?

Also, distilled water seems hard to find these days. Has anybody made their own by condensing steam? Seems easy enough.

[Pinto]

distilled is better for purpose, as deionised is simply treated water. Effectively the same thing tho. Distilled water has mainly been superceded in these green conscious times because it's rather energy intensive to make.

[Wezzel]

Thanks Pinto.

I've been using deionised water in our steam iron and steam mop for some years but they still scale up. I have therefore, probably wrongly, assumed deionised was inferior.