Portable Reverse Osmosis System 50 GPD

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RO

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• Shipping Weight: 8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B000KLSIJE
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #18,010 in Home Improvement (See Top 100 in Home Improvement)

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44 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Functional, but..., August 30, 2007

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R. Montgomery "Unreconstructed Reb" (Flyover country) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Portable Reverse Osmosis System 50 GPD (Misc.)

First off, you should know that anyone with some fundemental knowledge of water treatment can make one of these in their garage from catalog parts. That's exactly what this unit looks like, too. I bought it because it was cheap, but a week later I saw a better system advertised at the local home center for $20 less.

The unit I received came with a faucet adaptor. That's right, just one adaptor and it didn't fit anything in my house, so before I could use the unit I had to go to the store and get a part to mate the RO unit to a faucet. Once that was accomplished, I was able to make RO water right away, and the best I can tell, the unit works properly. It does, however, have a terrible rejection rate; something in the range of 10:1 reject to product water. This is much to high for city water, even on a bad day. This is probably because the city water pressure is too low, but there is no way to tell. There is no information in the instruction regarding pressure requirements.

Part of the problem with the unit is the instuctions are nearly worthless. They look like a third generation copy spit out of a copier in need of a good cleaning. There is nothing in the instructions about the minimum or maximum operating pressure, nothing about recovery rate, no troubleshooting guidance and the print is blurry. Unless you have a good idea what your doing already, you might want to try somebody else's product.

The good news is that the unit is truely portable and requires no power whatsoever to operate. You could probably use it on a camping trip if you had a hand pump or some other way to develope enough pressure to operate the unit. It is compact, but the tubing array just hangs loose with no provisions for storage or detaching, making it somewhat difficult to store neatly. Overall, not a very well thought out product, and more expensive than it should be.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great filter, November 13, 2007

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Adam Michon "spacecase0" (california) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Portable Reverse Osmosis System 50 GPD (Misc.)

I just got and tested this filter,
it connected to my sink very easy.
it has a switch so you can select filter or bypass the filter unit.
it worked well and the water tastes good,
I did not want a pressurized tank like most systems have, I know that makes it a little slow, but its not that slow, I just set a water pitcher under it while I cook dinner, one liter in 6 min. with my regular city water pressure.
and because there is no pressure tank this system is really portable.
just perfect for someone that wants to take a system with them.
it kind of looks like you could build it your self, its really simple, looks easy to fix and maintain.
no more evil fluoride, MTBE or other bad things in my water anymore.
good price as well.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great little portable RO unit, March 12, 2010

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Chris Kitze (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Portable Reverse Osmosis System 50 GPD (Misc.)

This unit is easy to use and gives great results -- highly recommended.

We had a built in RO unit in our last house and didn't want to drill holes in the granite countertops at our new house, so we bought this unit. It's definitely portable and will travel with us wherever we live. I put it in the laundry sink to process the water -- we do about 2 gallons every couple of days. So you know, RO's generate about a gallon of purified water and send another 10 down the drain. What you are left with is highly purified and tasteless water. Most all of the chlorine, fluoride and other minerals are removed.

Because this sink has a standard hose fitting on the faucet, we needed to get an adapter from the hardware store (about $6) and you will want to use a pliers to tighten it to prevent leaks. The laundry sink is handy because everything drains and you'll never have any issue of one of the output hoses falling out of the sink and putting water.

When you start out, you should run the unit for probably 10-20 gallons of processed water to clear out any tastes of plastic, which is normal for a new RO unit and shouldn't take more than 12 hours.