--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Stanley" <j_alexander_stan...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wayback71" <wayback71@> wrote: > > > > Alex, could you post the brnd names of the filters you use? We > > have had RO for about 10 years and I have been thinking of changing > > and could use some guidance. > > Well, I just had a bit of a shock. Petra was the one who was all > stressed out about mercury, and she had the plumber put in a mercury > filter. I just looked at the label on those cartridges for the first > time (had to shut the system off and twist them around to read them), > and neither one appears to be a mercury filter. One is an Omnipure > Q5633 for chlorine, taste, and odor. The other is an Omnipure Q5605 > dirt and sand filter. > > The calcite cartridge has no label, but it's just a standard filter > housing with a cartridge inside filled with crushed calcite "sand". I > have a bag of extra calcite, and I can refill the cartridge when it > gets used up. > > The Wellness Filter: http://www.wellnessfilter.com/ > > Delivery pump: Aquatec DDP-5800 > > The delivery pump really kicks ass. As you can imagine, with all those > filter cartridges, there isn't much water pressure left after the last > one. The pump senses the flow of water when you turn the drinking > water on, and it immediately turns on and delivers around one gallon > per minute. > > The pump doesn't like to suck from or push through a filter, so we > added a second pressure tank. The first tank stores 5 gallons of the > prefiltered mineralized water. Then there's the Wellness Filter, > followed by a 3 gallon tank and the pump. The pump will run > continuously for 3 gallons of water before it starts choking as it > tries to suck water through the Wellness Filter. We seldom need to > access that much water at a time, and when we do, we just have to shut > the water off and allow a little while for the water to flow from the > 5 gallon tank, through the Wellness Filter, and into the 3 gallon > tank. It's all quite elaborate, but it works really well. I am, > however, going to have a chat with the plumber about the supposed > mercury filter. >
Thanks Alex for your time. I am now in research mode and have a plumber coming out this next week to give me his input.
