Need to add water filter - looking for advice
Just picked up our new camper and I need to add a H2o filter as we always drink from our camper. Our first camper had a whole system filter which was located just after the pump. The previous campe...
Forum Discussion
That other thread mentioned above is good info.
I came across this interesting short summary today on RV water treatment and issues.
RV water treatment
I was thinking today about the possibility of reverse osmosis or UV filtration. Most RO systems besides being bulky, produce way too much waste water for RV use and the UV systems mostly treat bacteria and organisms (not sure how effective the small sediment & carbon block filters on them are). Both can be costly.
I saw this Watts ZeroWaste RO unit at HD today:
Watts Zerowaste RO system
This UV unit seems to be about the most compact for an RV and will run on 12VDC:
UV filter
There's an almost bewildering array of filters available that could be used in an RV and some will filter as low as 0.5 and 1 micron along with a long list of various chemicals and contaminants you can filter out. It depends a lot on what your water source quality is like and what you want to remove or reduce from the "raw" water. This site has a listing of many common ones in 5" and 10" filters. Different filter brands & types
I was also looking at a "spin-down" sediment filter like this Rusco item as a pre-filter to a sediment cartridge filter:
spin down sediment filter A drawback is that it needs min. 1 gpm to work.
The Douton ceramic filter is another option to look into and I know nothing about them. Doulton ceramic filter
Too many options... (sigh)
I'm currently trying to find out how good bulk bottled water is that you get from grocery stores. DW gets 5 gallon bottles refilled for our water cooler and won't drink anything else. The machine at our local store has a machine that fills the bottles at something like 5 gpm off city water so I am wondering if it does very good filtration at all.
I came across this interesting short summary today on RV water treatment and issues.
RV water treatment
I was thinking today about the possibility of reverse osmosis or UV filtration. Most RO systems besides being bulky, produce way too much waste water for RV use and the UV systems mostly treat bacteria and organisms (not sure how effective the small sediment & carbon block filters on them are). Both can be costly.
I saw this Watts ZeroWaste RO unit at HD today:
Watts Zerowaste RO system
This UV unit seems to be about the most compact for an RV and will run on 12VDC:
UV filter
There's an almost bewildering array of filters available that could be used in an RV and some will filter as low as 0.5 and 1 micron along with a long list of various chemicals and contaminants you can filter out. It depends a lot on what your water source quality is like and what you want to remove or reduce from the "raw" water. This site has a listing of many common ones in 5" and 10" filters. Different filter brands & types
I was also looking at a "spin-down" sediment filter like this Rusco item as a pre-filter to a sediment cartridge filter:
spin down sediment filter A drawback is that it needs min. 1 gpm to work.
The Douton ceramic filter is another option to look into and I know nothing about them. Doulton ceramic filter
Too many options... (sigh)
I'm currently trying to find out how good bulk bottled water is that you get from grocery stores. DW gets 5 gallon bottles refilled for our water cooler and won't drink anything else. The machine at our local store has a machine that fills the bottles at something like 5 gpm off city water so I am wondering if it does very good filtration at all.
