tested the blue camco filter with a TDS meter

STANG23L wrote:
Looks like there are a few that know quite a bit about filtering water. So here's a question.

The other day an infomercial for Nuvo H2O claiming they work as a water softner & filter. What kind of magic dust do they have in that canister?

Typical "as seen on TV" infomercial huckster junk.

Read the reviews and complaints..

HERE

In a nutshell, it does not "remove" the minerals per say it "binds" them to some certain extent using some sort of supposed citrus based chemicals (exact formulation is unknown trade secret?), unclear what it does after the minerals are "bound", does it pass the bound minerals out? Who knows.

That in it's self makes my skin crawl, who in their right mind would want to purposefully inject an unknown substance into your drinking water and hope that down the road you don't suffer some sort of issue from that..

IF you want a "softener" buy a REAL "softener", they do make portable softeners which use table salt for the regen cycle of the resin beads. These softeners are REUSABLE which means you are not paying for endless replacement cartridges! They are very safe and effective system that leaves only a SMALL trace of sodium in your drinking water (most all of the salt is removed from the filter resin during the back wash cycle and any left reduces to zero during normal usage).

During normal use, the resin beads grab the minerals out of the water and hold on to them until you run the regen cycle which uses table salt to free the minerals from the beads and that gets washed out of the filter.

HERE is one example of a portable water softener that regenerates with table salt.

Infomercials have never been known for "truth in advertising" and the stuff they push is often not worth the money for what you get.