Water Filter

sltrawick wrote:
I am debating on getting a water filter for my travel trailer. The kind that you hook up to the hose outside of your camper. Does anyone have one and do they really work? Just wondering if its worth it or not to get it.

The off the shelf camco, valterra, what have you in line filters are typically rated at 100 microns.

You can basically drive a bus through that.

We have a custom "water plant" we take camping the has 2 of 3 of the features we have at home (kinetico water conditioner is a bit large for our current camper :-).

First filter stage is a pentek EPC-1, 1 micron sediment filter followed by a bypassable Pentek DBC-10EX2, a 5 micron KDF/active carbon filter for taste and biologics.

Both elements housed in "big boy" housings rated for better than 7 GPM; no flow or pressure problems here.

This set up is able to stop all the acetone and junk in the water in FL when we travel there. It's damn impressive when you have a filtered glass of water and its like fresh from the well at home and then just smell an unfiltered glass, let alone drink it!

If you are not a DIY type, you can get the same thing from the rv water store; talk to Rick, he's very knowledgable...