Water Filter Cartridge Replacement
My TT came with a built-in, in-line WaterPur water filter. Apparently WaterPur is a brand connected with Forest River products? It's time to get a replacement cartridge. The ones bearing the "WaterPur...
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Super_Dave wrote:bukhrn wrote:
I see a LOT of so called replacements for the Water-Pur CCI-10-CA , they will physically fit, but check the micron filtering, most say they are a replacement, BUT, they all filter to 0.5 micron, the Water-Pur filters to 5 micron, I've never been good at math, but i'm pretty sure that's a big difference.
Yep, filtering to .5 micron is 10 times better than filtering to 5 micron. Think of those sizes as the size of the holes that particles can pass through.
I'm not really sure what a micron is. Is it a two-dimensional measurement? If so, then you're correct about 0.5 being 10 times better (smaller) than 5. But if a micron is a one-dimensional measurement, an opening has both length and width. So, assuming a square space, if the length of the space is 0.5 microns compared to a length of 5 microns, the difference in the 2-dimensional size of the opening is actually 100 times bigger with a 5 micron space than a 0.5 micron space.
But I digress. With a much smaller opening do we end up with a situation in which the pump can't get the water through it, like a previous poster said? If so, then even though the filter is "better" in that it filters out more stuff, it is worse in that you can't get enough water through it.
-Speak
