I have been given a water filtration plant and would like to know what
it is so I can get bits and get it going.

It has two components. One being a blue gas type bottle that has one
top tap with a yellow pipe from it. The tap is a small brass butterfly
type and just shuts the bottle off. There is also a bicycle valve type
connection on the side of the bottle.

The main part is a white panel about 10 inches by 16 inches.
This has three plastic cylinders on it, a white one on each side and a
bigger blue one in the middle. There is a black valve between the LH
white and middle blue cylinder.

Pipes go from one cylinder into another and I have blue, black, red,
and yellow pipes trailing around.

One must be a mains inlet and another the pipe to the outlet tap. The
yellow goes to the blue bottle. That leaves a pipe that appears to go
nowhere.

Any sort of help appreciated in this.

EricP wrote:
I have been given a water filtration plant and would like to know what
it is so I can get bits and get it going.

It has two components. One being a blue gas type bottle that has one
top tap with a yellow pipe from it. The tap is a small brass butterfly
type and just shuts the bottle off. There is also a bicycle valve type
connection on the side of the bottle.

This is pressurised storage vessel. The bottom part is separated from
the top part by a rubber diaphragm. The Schrader valve (the bike valve)
is used to pressurise the lower compartment. It holds treated water.



The main part is a white panel about 10 inches by 16 inches.
This has three plastic cylinders on it, a white one on each side and a
bigger blue one in the middle. There is a black valve between the LH
white and middle blue cylinder.

Pipes go from one cylinder into another and I have blue, black, red,
and yellow pipes trailing around.

One must be a mains inlet and another the pipe to the outlet tap. The
yellow goes to the blue bottle. That leaves a pipe that appears to go
nowhere.

Any sort of help appreciated in this.


This is a reverse osmosis system. There are a few different
configurations, but the most common one with 3 cylinders has 2 activated
carbon cylinders and an RO membrane.

Water goes into the first carbon cylinder, then out and into the RO
membrane. Water comes out of the RO membrane and then into the second
activated carbon cylinder. The storage vessel is usually connected at
this point (where the RO membrane connects to the second activated
carbon cylinder).

The RO membrane also has a waste outlet, usually black, which needs to
discharge into your drain.

Without seeing it, this is about as much as I can tell you.


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Grunff

On Wed, 03 Aug 2005 18:13:29 +0100, Grunff babbled
like a waterfall and said:

Without seeing it, this is about as much as I can tell you

You haven't exactly done badly so far old chap. ))

Many thanks for the help so far. I will try to get a picture of it up
somewhere but don't have a clue how.

Cheers. )

EricP wrote:

You haven't exactly done badly so far old chap. ))

Many thanks for the help so far. I will try to get a picture of it up
somewhere but don't have a clue how.

You can email me a pic if you wish.

If you want to get it back into service, you're going to need a new RO
membrane and new activated carbon cartridges. These will be difficult to
get unless you can identify a manufactuurer. Are there any lables/plates
on it?


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Grunff

On Wed, 03 Aug 2005 18:39:13 +0100, Grunff babbled
like a waterfall and said:

EricP wrote:

You haven't exactly done badly so far old chap. ))

Many thanks for the help so far. I will try to get a picture of it up
somewhere but don't have a clue how.

You can email me a pic if you wish.

Many thanks for this. I will try within the next day or so. )

If you want to get it back into service, you're going to need a new RO
membrane and new activated carbon cartridges. These will be difficult to
get unless you can identify a manufactuurer. Are there any lables/plates
on it?

The thing is largely anonymous except one of the white cartridges has
a blue arrow and "12G90S" on it. The other has similar but illegible.

The bottle has a warning about tampering, a date code of "11228389" on
it and "140X99"

The construction seems a bit cheap compared to the usual ones your
comments led me to find. The cartridges are clipped to the board and
connected by push-fit or screw/olive pipe connectors. It does work
well though because I remember it being used.

EricP wrote:

Many thanks for this. I will try within the next day or so. )

You're welcome.


The construction seems a bit cheap compared to the usual ones your
comments led me to find. The cartridges are clipped to the board and
connected by push-fit or screw/olive pipe connectors. It does work
well though because I remember it being used.

Most units these days use 8mm pushfit pipes between the cartridges.

I think your only chance of getting parts will be if it uses standard
sized carts, 8" or 10".


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Grunff