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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Here’s the WaterPur one on Amazon. Price is $37.42.
Here’s an “off-brand.” Price is $35.92 for TWO of them!
Both claim to filter 10,000 gallons per year, but I don’t know if that matters. The cheaper one claims to allow a 1 gallon-per-minute flow. The WaterPur says it has a 2.5 gallon-per-minute flow. That suggests to me that the competitor has “better” filtration, but that it may stress the pump. The WaterPur one is 5 microns, according to the WaterPur website, but the competitor doesn’t give its pore size.
As to the suggestion of picking up a filter cartridge at a home center, I haven’t found the right size cartridge in those places. If the cartridge doesn’t fit tightly into the canister, with O-rings that seal it in, then water just bypasses the filter cartridge and you aren’t getting any benefit from it at all.
-Speak
Here’s an “off-brand.” Price is $35.92 for TWO of them!
Both claim to filter 10,000 gallons per year, but I don’t know if that matters. The cheaper one claims to allow a 1 gallon-per-minute flow. The WaterPur says it has a 2.5 gallon-per-minute flow. That suggests to me that the competitor has “better” filtration, but that it may stress the pump. The WaterPur one is 5 microns, according to the WaterPur website, but the competitor doesn’t give its pore size.
As to the suggestion of picking up a filter cartridge at a home center, I haven’t found the right size cartridge in those places. If the cartridge doesn’t fit tightly into the canister, with O-rings that seal it in, then water just bypasses the filter cartridge and you aren’t getting any benefit from it at all.
-Speak
