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Watts WP5-50 Premier Five-Stage Manifold Reverse Osmosis Water Treatment System |  | Brand: Watts
Category: Home Improvement
List Price: $249.00
Buy New: $229.79
as of 3/15/2010 08:30 CDT details
You Save: $19.21 (8%)
Seller: Amazon.com
Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 4033
Media: Tools & Hardware
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5 x 16 x 16.5
MPN: WP-5-50
Model: WP5-50
UPC: 099351890002
EAN: 0099351890002
ASIN: B000E77I04
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| Features:
| • | 5-stage manifold reverse osmosis water treatment system offers a continuous supply of water for the whole family | | • | Manifold design provides seamless water path, effectively eliminating 17 connections | | • | Nitrate reduction | | • | NSF tested and certified | | • | 3-year limited warranty |
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Product Description
Reverse Osmosis Filter System 5 Stage System Of Filtration Comes With 3 Gallon Tank, Water Dispensing Faucet, Attached Membrane, Pre-filter And 3 Post Filters Limited 3 Year Warranty Bottled Water Quality From Your Home Water Supply System Tested & Certified By Nsf International Against Ansi/nsf Standard 58 Easy To Follow Instruction Manual Reduces Chlorine, Sodium, Bad Tastes & Odors Enhances The Taste Of Vegetables, Juices, Coffee, And Tea Replacement Filter (ace No. 4207106 Boxed Discovery Acc All items sold new in original packaging
Amazon.com Product Description
The Watts Premier Five-Stage Reverse Osmosis Water Filtration Device is the most complete water filtration system available on the market. Featuring a five-stage filtration process, the RO incorporates sediment, coconut-shell carbon, and reverse osmosis technologies to provide great-tasting, bottled-quality water straight from your tap.
Five-stage filtration and reverse osmosis provide cleaner water straight from the tap. | 
During the lifecycle of a single filter, you can save up to 16,000 plastic bottles from being deposited in landfills. |
Five-Stage Filtration Removes Contaminants
The Watts RO filters in five stages to ensure that your drinking water is as healthy and clean as possible. Once the system is connected, water passes through a 5-micron sediment filter that traps particulate matter--such as dirt, rust, and silt--that can affect the taste and appearance of your water. Next, a 5-micron carbon block filter reduces chlorine taste and odor, as well as other materials that can give water a bad taste. For the third stage, another 5-micron carbon block filter further reduces chlorine, as well as difficult-to-remove chloramines.Reverse Osmosis for High-Quality Drinking Water
The system's fourth stage of filtration is especially important, as it involves the passage of water through the reverse osmosis (RO) membrane. This semi-permeable membrane effectively removes arsenic, lead, perchlorate, chromium, copper, TDS (total dissolved solids), sodium, and a long list of other water contaminants. It also removes parasytic cysts, such as giardia and cryptosporidia. The fifth stage of filtration utilizes a high quality GAC filter, which works as a final polishing filter when the water leaves the storage tank on its way up to your faucet. The end result is consistently great-tasting water at just pennies per gallon. The Importance of Drinking Clean Water
Water is critical to proper food digestion, kidney health, brain function, blood health, joint functionality, and more. It's important to make sure that the water you drink is devoid of contaminants. Thankfully, using a Watts water filtration device will ensure consistent quality for all of your drinking and cooking needs. In fact, when you use Watts' high-quality certified water treatment devices and filters, your water will be free of chlorine taste and odors, particles, and many other contaminants that can be detrimental to your health. *Please refer to the Performance Data Sheet for the complete list of claims for which this system is certified. An Eco-Friendly Choice
Not only is the RO filter a healthy choice for you, but it's also a healthy choice for the environment. This filter helps you minimize the harmful environmental consequences of buying bottled water. Incredibly, if a mere ten percent of North America's bottled water intake were reduced by switching to home-filtered water in reusable containers, we could eliminate: - 133,000 trucks driving an average of 500 miles--saving nearly 12 million gallons of diesel fuel
- Over 100 million pounds of greenhouse gasses--equal to taking 1,100 cars off the road annually
- 213 million pounds of PET--equal to 1.5 million barrels of crude oil or improving the PET recycling rate by 10%
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Depending upon which Watts water-filtration product you use, you can prevent up to 16,000 half-liter bottles from being deposited in landfills--all in the time it takes to use and replace a single filter.The Watts Premier Five Stage Reverse Osmosis Water Filtration Device is backed by a three-year limited warranty. What's in the Box
Five-Stage Reverse Osmosis Module (complete with filters), parts bag (with a 10-inch final filter), 3-gallon storage tank, faucet assembly, and manual.
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RO | | Num. of Filtration Stages | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | | Reduces | | | Sediment |  | | | | | | | Chlorine | | | | | | | | Bacteria | | | | | | | | Viruses | | | | | | | | Cysts | | | | | | | | Lead | | | | | | | | Chemicals | | | | | | | Arsenic, Nitrates,
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Perchlorate, Turbidity | | | | | | | | Dimensions (L x W x H) | 6 x 6 x 14 | 14 x 6 x 16 | 14 x 6 x 16 | 9 x 3.5 x 14 | 6 x 4 x 16 | 17 x 17 x 6 | | Replacement Filters | 5-Mic Carbon Block | Purifier Filter Pack | 560088 | 560039 | 560017 | Annual Filter Pack |
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 23
 Amazingly loud hissing sound March 7, 2010
James M.
I was using a 5-stage Genesis V system from Havapure for years. It was quiet, and produced good water. I just moved and bought this system. It has an "air gap facuet" which means that it hisses when it's filtering. It sounds like a mini garden hose, and lasts for about 20 minutes for each glass of water. It's beyond irritating to have in the house. It was professionally installed, but it's going back to Amazon *tomorrow*. I can't believe people listen to this after each drink of water. I wish I could give it 0 stars...
Bad Customer Service , defected parts March 2, 2010
S. Saeidi
My Plumber noticed cartridges are leaking. I contacted the company to get replacement parts for the cartridges, but they asked me to send the whole system back to them so that they can take a look at it. It would cost me money and time. I saved time by returning the item and purchase another brand.
 Much less tubing to run but noisy January 30, 2010
Doc
Prior to this system I hand an 5 year old WP-5 system that served me well. I was moving so it was time to buy a new system. This system is great! Easy to install. They have drasticly cut down on the amount of plastic lines you have to run.
Cons:
1. Its noisy. Compared to my old system this one is much louder. My old system you would here water running down the drain and a slight bubbleing sound. This system sounds like your dentist is using the sylvia sucker tool.
2. The faucet seems cheap. Compared to my old model which had the push button on the front, this faucet seems underbuilt and flimsy. It does its job but it has a "be careful" look and feel.
Overall: Even with the above cons I think this is an excellent value for the system. The water is better than botteled, tastes great (my friend calls it glacier water) and it almost eliminates hard water buildup in humidifiers.
Excellent water quality January 15, 2010
L. Chu (West Coast United States)
I installed the WP5-50 system about a month ago and would like to share the following with people who are considering buying the product: 1) the water quality is really excellent as seen in test paper, 2) it does make some noises when making water but not that bad if you are far enough away from the system, 3) the instructions are not very clear as they include information not for this model as well and it lacks an overall picture of the system installation in my opinion, thus 4 stars; and last but not least 4) in case you already have a copper tube for your ice maker, do not connect the copper tube to the faucet directly since it will ruin the water quality and defeat the whole purpose. Always connect the plastic tube to the faucet and split the tube to the ice maker tube.
 Looks to be a good quality unit. January 15, 2010
Ken M (Oxnard, CA United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I finished up with my install of the 'Watts Premier WP5-50' RO unit about an hour ago. I replaced a 3 stage rental unit that never seemed to make very much water as it was not maintained very well by the rental company. I am guessing it was a 18 gallon per day unit, they would change a filter once a year and never did sanitize (not hard to do) the unit. A membrane change happened about every three years.
The WP5-50 start up instructions say to flush the tank twice so that is what I am doing as I am typing this. The thing is NSF certified so I am not worried about the initial water quality, I mainly just wanted to state a few things that would be important to anyone considering a purchase.
1. The faucet is a good quality metal chrome air gap type with a plastic on/off lever. The hoses were already connected and mostly cut to size. I did cut about a foot off of the drain connection for a better fit. The faucet matched the quality of my rental unit's faucet. I am happy with that.
2. The faucet made a bit of a hissing noise until I let the system fill a little and drain a few times. I would guess that was just air in the system. The unit is now just making a low gurgling type sound that my rental unit always made, the WP5-50 is actually quieter than my old rental unit. All under sink reverse osmosis (RO) devices will make some type of noise, the air gap faucet (required by many plumbing codes) is a little noisier than a non air gap faucet.
3. The install took about an hour, I did already have a sink cut-out for the faucet as well as one for the drain, that saved some time. The flow restrictor is inside a hose already attached to the manifold. My unit came with a heavy duty filter/manifold wrench and I did verify that I could open all of the filter housings with it. A small roll of Teflon tape (required for installation) was also included.
I wanted to state this because some of the reviews really had me wondering about the WP5. I will post more info later.
Update 1, 15-Jan-10 : The unit appears to make (at my location) about one gallon per hour from an empty tank. I went ahead and ordered a permeate pump from the Watts Premier web site. The pump is supposed to decrease waste water and increase efficiency. A side effect is that it reduces noise. I will let you all know how that works out after I get it installed. I have 100 gallons worth of fresh water aquariums so I intend to give this unit a good work out. Baseline TDS (Total Dissolved Solids) reading of 400 ppm (parts per million) in and 30 ppm out.
Update 2, 19-Jan-10 : I have a water pressure regulator on my house that I turned up a bit (from 40 psi to 60 psi) and the air gap faucet did get noisy (hissing type noise). I am going to ask a plumber about this, but I plan to install a check valve and bypass the air gap. I guess if you do not need a lot of water, an 18 or 24 gallon per day unit would be an easier solution. For me it is no big deal.
19-Jan-10 : I have installed a check valve and bypassed the air gap faucet (not legal in all locations). Zero noise from the faucet now. I have also installed a permeate pump, mostly for testing. The pump makes a low clicking noise that almost sounds like a grandfather clock a few rooms away on about a four second cycle. This is only present when the unit is filling the tank. Today's input TDS was 397 ppm and the output was 25 ppm. I'll leave my observations at this unless something noteworthy changes.
Conclusions :
The average family who just needs drinking water will probably not enjoy this unit due to the noise from the air gap faucet. A low volume (gallons per day) membrane (with matched flow restrictor) should solve the noise problem.
For someone like me, who wants/needs a large amount (greater than 10 actual GPD) of fairly pure water, this thing is very good. I will stay with my 5 star rating as I bought this to produce lots of good quality water, it will do that.
Ken
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