tested the blue camco filter with a TDS meter

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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.

fourthclassC wrote:
Howdy Folks, small disclaimer here - I work for the company - but a good solution is the PUR faucet mount with the quick disconnect feature. Activated carbon filter with bacterial cyst, lead, and many other contaminants removed. Best thing is that it is right at the point of use so it removes contaminants right before using the water. And very easy to disconnect before travel.

As I said, we use an Aqua-Pure whole house carbon filter, but we also have a faucet mounted PUR filter on the kitchen spout. We don't remove it for travel, and changing cartridges is a simple process. We really, really don't like a chlorine taste in our water. Removing the other contaminants is a bonus... :)

RayJayco wrote:
Keep in mind that RO removes the good and the bad. Distilled water is the same. Yes, you get water, however you need to be supplementing the minerals that you will be missing...

Good advice. To do this, you can add a Mineral Replenisher Cartridge.

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?

Keep in mind that RO removes the good and the bad. Distilled water is the same. Yes, you get water, however you need to be supplementing the minerals that you will be missing...
If you buy bottled water, be sure to read EACH word carefully as they all have a meaning in marketing.
Be safe!

Just be sure to examine the fine print when buying a filter. For drinking water, a 0.5 micron filter is the one I choose. A 0.5 micron filter will remove harmful bacteria. I adapted a whole house cartridge type housing with garden hose fittings and only buy the replaceable cartridges.

As mentioned if you want to lower TDS, you'll need to process the water even move.

For removing trash & rust from the incoming water, a cheap charcoal is the one I choose.

The specs on the Brita filters are hard to find - they really don't do much to clean the water but they do make it taste better. If that's all you want, go for it.

I'm not familiar with the specs on the Pur product and would be interested in seeing what they do - I'm not interested in seeing their advertising hype.

You can't go wrong buying drinking water that's been processed through an RO filter. I use reusable bottles and pay as little as $0.20 a gallon.

To me

"PURIFY"

and

"STERILIZE"

have two entirely different meanings

Where I grew up there was a tremendous scandal back in the 1990's because public dispenser purified water had selenium 80x over USA guidelines and filters housing a thousand times permissible limits pf PCB's -- which means they were dispensing a ridiculous quantity of the chemical.

fourthclassC wrote:
Howdy Folks, small disclaimer here - I work for the company - but a good solution is the PUR faucet mount with the quick disconnect feature. Activated carbon filter with bacterial cyst, lead, and many other contaminants removed. Best thing is that it is right at the point of use so it removes contaminants right before using the water. And very easy to disconnect before travel.

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