Anyone here usiing 12 volt UV Water filter
Hi, I'm looking for feedback on installing a 12 volt UV water filtration system in my B. I am seeking advice on brands anyone may be using and if you installed using a flow switch how what hardware...
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greenrvgreen wrote:
Yes, we're always told to use a coarse sediment filter, but they're not very cleanable and they're almost as expensive as an actual ceramic filter, which is EASILY cleaned with a brillo pad and ten extra seconds, and will outlast the sediment filter by a factor of DECADES.
Pleated sediment filters are easy to clean. I do it all the time.
Nevertheless, I'll give a ceramic a try next year. We use large Big Blue canisters so a ceramic filter is expensive as opposed to a pleated filter. The flow rate for this Big Blue ceramic is very good -- 6 gpm @ 60 psi.
However, the Doulton ceramics for 'standard'-sized canisters (that almost all RVers use) all seem to have really slow flow rates.
greenrvgreen wrote:
I bought a high-end sterilight 120v and it cooked my water like it thought I was going to make coffee.
"Make coffee"? Yeah, right. For a smart guy, you didn't know that UV sterilizers actually heat water?
greenrvgreen wrote:
Factors like dwell time ought to give sentient users the shivers. Who would want to rely soley on a device that comes with built-in excuses?
Dwell time just means that amount of time water is exposed to UV light. So a 3 gpm UV system can't have water going though the system more than 3 gpm. Otherwise, the system won't work.
