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Old 6/30/07, 3:46 AM
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Default water filter type?

Data plate wasn't much help with this one. What kind of water filter requires backwashing? Even the seller (#3) was confused.




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Old 6/30/07, 3:58 AM
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Default Re: water filter type?

I had a reverse osmosis system at one time that had a manual backflush on it. Here is a little info at this site. http://www.thebestwaterfilters.com/w...e_systems.html

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Old 6/30/07, 5:47 AM
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Kenton,

It looks like a standard water softener EXCEPT for the lack of a brine tank.

Perhpas it's a sediment filter only. Either way it would require back flushing(from the botttom to the top) to flush the sediments out periodically.
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Old 7/1/07, 12:46 AM
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Data plate wasn't much help with this one. What kind of water filter requires backwashing? Even the seller (#3) was confused.
Iron filter
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Old 7/1/07, 3:08 AM
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Not enough information. As was mentioned above, it is likely not a softener as there is no brine tank. My guess would be a media filter or an iron filter. There are thousands of filtration/water treatment media you can put in a tank like that depending on what is in your water and what you want to do to it.
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