Anyone here usiing 12 volt UV Water filter

Hi,

I used a 120 volt unit. It lasted a little over a year.

Where are you guys camping that drinking water needs to be irradiated?

pianotuna wrote:
Hi,

I used a 120 volt unit. It lasted a little over a year.

I didn't have much better luck withthe one I used on my spa. It only came on 4 hours a day but only lasted a couple of years. Replacement was stupid expensive so I abandoned it.

Is this another scam?

2oldman wrote:
Is this another scam?

Reading the marketing information for these things feels really scam-like to me.

Using one in a recalculating system, pool or spa or fish aquarium is legit.

Using one to instantaneously make contaminated drinking water safe defies the laws of physics.

No, they really do work. The same technology is used in hospitals.
It can kill things common filters miss like cysts and bacteria.

2oldman,

Mine was the last stage of a 7 part reverse osmosis system. The water supply to the drinking tap came from an accumulator tank, so the rate of flow through the UV treatment unit was fairly slow, taking perhaps ten minutes for one cup of water.

When I had a fish pond at my previous house, I had one on the water pumped out, through a filter, and back. It really helped. I won't be putting one on my RV. If the water needs to be irradiated, I will camp somewhere else.

Bobbo wrote:
If the water needs to be irradiated, I will camp somewhere else.

I don't think UV light is radiation.

For drinking water - get a Berkey Water Filter. Lasts for years, uses no electricity, and doesn't burnout when you really depend on it. It cleans just about everything from the water not just UV sensitive bacteria.