 "The water filter" | 2009-11-05 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2JMWD4QTCW85H |
| Ever since I have been drinking water from our kitchen faucet, I was never aware of all the bad things that the ordinary city water contained, like: lead, water impurities,and who knows what else? Since reading an artile on the subject "How save is our drinking water", the impact that hit me between the eyes, was to search for a good water filter, that I found on Amazon.com, where to my relief I found Culligan faucet water filters. Now I know what clean water really tast like! I will never drink unfiltered tap water again! Charlie Cullgan FM-15RA faucet water filter. |
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 "FM-15RA inconsistent with FM-15R - please advise!" | 2009-10-15 |
| - Reviewed By mig961 |
Hi, perhaps someone can resolve my confusion.
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I just purchased some FM-15RA replacement filters. In the past, I used to get the FM-15R models which were made in USA (not China like these newfangled 15RA ones).
Anyway, in the past, I'd found that some of the FM-15R ones would gush (rather than flow), so I phoned Culligan in mid 2008, and after LOTS of hassle, reached a guy who actually knew something.
He asked me to check whether any of the holes are black rather than white. He said that all the holes need to be white NOT black to filter well.
Sure enough, the ones which gushed had some black holes, so he sent replacements which all had pure white at the holes.
Anyway, now I received the ones made in China, which seem like junk, since they're lighter weight than the USA ones. Note i still have the USA ones, so i could compare.
Also, in the past, the USA ones did not emit what looks like vapor/smoke (probably the charcoal), upon screwing in & trying out for the first time. But the Chinese-made one DOES cause vapor/smoke (charcoal) to emit - which gives me the creeps, because it reminds me of when I erroneously poured Drano down the drain & it emitted similar vapor & hissed toxicly for a long time afterward to the extent that the clog-fixer-guy said it might have caused corrosion of pipes.
But above all:
I'm really baffled now, because these newfangled Chinese made FM-15-RA's all have greyish-black at the holes, rather than white. Yet the one I just now tried is not gushing (despite the blackish holes). Rather, it's flowing.
This is inconsistent with what the Culligan guy had told me regarding the FM-15R. Because going according to him, these newfangled ones ought to be gushing since the holes are not pure white, but rather greyish black??!!
So what am I to believe? |
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 "Replacement cartridge leaks" | 2009-10-05 |
| - Reviewed By User: AHZ8AIPNA68W5 |
| Looks like I was unlucky. These cartridges leaked when I put them on the faucet mount. The first replacement I was able to manage with some teflon plumbing tape but the second squirted water all around the sink. I plan to buy the whole unit again because it makes my water taste better. This is the only reason I would give it 2 stars. Surprisingly I dont see too many bad reviews or any that say that the replacement leaked. Wonder why. |
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| "works perfectly fine" | 2009-09-29 |
| - Reviewed By User: AKLQ48KQD5TQ3 |
This filter works just great. I always used Pur faucet filters, but if you have high water pressure, sooner or later, it will break up... This one, instead, has no problems at all and the water tastes exactly the same. Good deal for the price.
The only flaw is a lack of an indicator that tells when it's time to change it, but they send you a sticker to put on your calendar :) minimalist, but efficient. |
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 "Great filter if you follow this little bit of advice!" | 2009-09-28 |
| - Reviewed By mitbooks |
At first, I did experience what a few of the other reviewers mentioned: after a short while the filter didn't appear to have any affect on the taste of the water.
The problem, I discovered, is that if you run the water through the filter too quickly (by opening up the tap all the way) the charcoal filter just can't do its job. As a rule of thumb, only allow enough flow through the filter so that it takes about 15 seconds to fill up a glass of water, and you'll have great tasting water. So, if you have high water pressure, make sure you don't open of the faucet all the way when filling a glass. There's just no way a filter as small as this can do its job properly at the max flow rate of most faucets. You really need a large in-line filter for that.
Note that this only applies to the filter's odor and taste removal properties, because this involves a chemical reaction of sorts where activated charcoal pulls chlorine (and other chemical) out of the water by binding to them. This is a completely different mechanism than what you normally associate with filtering, such as particles being caught in a mesh (which is essentially how the rest of the filter works in these, and so it's really only the odor and taste that is affected by the rate at which you let water through the Cullgan). |
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| "Great filter if you follow this little bit of advice..." | 2009-09-28 |
| - Reviewed By mitbooks |
At first, I did experience what a few of the other reviewers mentioned: after a short while the filter didn't appear to have any affect on the taste of the water.
The problem, I discovered, is that if you run the water through the filter too quickly (by opening up the tap all the way) the charcoal filter just can't do its job. As a rule of thumb, only allow enough flow through the filter so that it takes about 10-15 seconds to fill up a glass of water, and you'll have great tasting water. So, if you have high water pressure, make sure you don't open of the faucet all the way when filling a glass. There's just no way a filter as small as this can do its job properly at the max flow rate of most faucets. You really need a large in-line filter for that.
Note that this only applies to the filter's odor and taste removal properties, because this involves a chemical reaction of sorts where activated charcoal pulls chlorine (and other chemical) out of the water by binding to them. This is a completely different mechanism than what you normally associate with filtering, such as particles being caught in a mesh (which is essentially how the rest of the filter works in these, and so it's really only the odor and taste that is affected by the rate at which you let water through the Cullgan). |
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