water filter type?

[Kenton H. Shepard, CMI]

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

[Stephen W. Stanczyk]

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

Steve

[Michael Larson]

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.

[Jason1]

Originally Posted by kshepard

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

Iron filter

[pdickerson]

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.