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Home Reverse Osmosis Water System

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    Home Reverse Osmosis Water System

    Anyone have one?


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    Quote Originally Posted by periphery831:
    Anyone have one?
    I bought one from taobao and shortly after saw one at a local xiaomi shop that I might have also been interested in.
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    Quote Originally Posted by hk.main:
    I bought one from taobao and shortly after saw one at a local xiaomi shop that I might have also been interested in.
    Does your filter remineralise the water?

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    Quote Originally Posted by periphery831:
    Does your filter remineralise the water?
    I really don't remember, I used google translate to speak with the CS rep to ask questions about it. Also used google image translate to check info on the page. I wanted a tankless system that re-mineralized the water, but after spending way too much time on this search I just bought this. I'm pretty sure it's tankless, and I'll say maybe it re-mineralizes water.

    https://detail.tmall.com/item.htm?_u...55e12e8dmPqPom

    Here's the link - see what info you can get from the page etc.
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    Quote Originally Posted by hk.main:
    I really don't remember, I used google translate to speak with the CS rep to ask questions about it. Also used google image translate to check info on the page. I wanted a tankless system that re-mineralized the water, but after spending way too much time on this search I just bought this. I'm pretty sure it's tankless, and I'll say maybe it re-mineralizes water.
    How do you maintain it?

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    I'm curious what is the issue that you think you are trying to fix with HK tap water?


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    Quote Originally Posted by periphery831:
    How do you maintain it?
    There are replacement cartridges/filters (whatever they are called), and the front of the of the machine has a display that should supposedly tell me when the filters need to be changed. At that time I'll order some from the store, haha, assuming they are still around. But one question I remember asking while chatting with the CS was how long the store has been in business since I was worried about replacing the filters later. They said 15 years, and the filters are supposed to last for about a year if I remember correctly. I have only had it for a few months, so not time to replace anything yet.

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    Well the water may be clean and properly treated. It's the rusty pipes that the water travels through to your home that is uncertain. Boiling the water pre-filtration only makes things worse.

    I bought this old Philips RO model at a discount about a year go, one of the best decision ever. Never having to boil water, 4 preset temperatures and 4 preset water volume. No more boiling and storing, just occasionally refilling the tank. There is only one water filter, replace once a year. Newer models look nicer but are essentially the same.

    https://www.yohohongkong.com/en-us/p...ispenser-Black

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    Currently using this and then boiling afterwards:

    On tap water purifier WP3822/00 | Philips

    So, if I read correctly, boiling after filtering is fine?

    "The study, published in Environmental Science & Technology Letters, found that boiling soft water removed only around 25 percent of microplastics, while boiling hard water removed as much as 90 percent."