The Sawyer filter I have is great, but I wonder if anyone has an idea to add activitated carbon to improve taste from tea colored wate?
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I believe you can,if you check out u tube you'll find a myriad of ideas about setup ect.including a guy that added an inline carbon filter.The video shows a gentleman getting water from the edge of a lake,I think he may have been from the UK.
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I never use carbon in my filters, I think one pad is enough to keep the water clean, but if you have too much tanines you can use in bothRegards
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First time user as of yesterday, but, in past use of other filters, I would say the insert fiber wasn't rinsed well enough or you got a "bad" one. I rinsed my 1st filter and made sure it was soaking wet and moved the carbon around while rinsing. Try netting the water surface, remove filter insert, rinse and try again. If this doesn't work, get a new insert and rinse really good before use. Hope this Works for ya' !
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If there is room in your filter, you may as well just add it. However, it can take the place of your charcoal if you don't have the room. My filters not have the room, so I put it where the charcoal would. It is a nice product.
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From Sawyer:Our filters are designed to remove all of the harmful bacteria, protozoa, and cysts from water. They do not remove any completely dissolved solids including tannins and salt. The tannin coloring (nature's tea) however is not harmful. Thank you,Customer Services
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I don't have a sawyer filter but if it connects to kind of the standard tubing I suspect you could just connect the tube to the standard platypus cap that has an adapter to tubing.
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as an aside to the previous question. I just looked at the DrinkWell Zen fountain and they show the Charcoal filters as replacements.
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I made my own carbon filter with ~20oz of activated carbon. It could be used with any commercially available filter of the size (mine was 4"). I made my own because commercially available options did not meet my space requirements. The DIY filter worked wonderfully.
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While I don't know that this will be helpful to you given the time since you asked the question, for the edification of others I'll throw this out there. All sawyer filters are designed to be back flushed to clean them out. That is what the syringe that comes with the system is for. Fill it with water, place it on the out of the filter, and force water through it. You may have to do it a couple times.
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Berkey's come with carbon filters, the Ceradyn doesn't, but the Gravidyn does. Carbon gets used up faster, so you will have much less of a filter life. Most people just use a Brita pitcher (or equivalent) if they want a carbon filtered water after (for taste and aroma). I personally chose the Ceradyn for long filter life as its ceramic inpregnated with silver, and its used by missionaries around the world. You can put river water in this thing and have it come out clean.
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these are strcitly sediment filters. i am going to add a second stage to my inline filter to house a carbon filter- that is the only thing that will remove most ( not always all ) odors and odd tastes. if you have high sulfur, you might consider a twin carbon filter system in order to bring the taste down to neutral.Again, nearly EVERY filter that lists it as a " sediment filter " is ONLY for particulate matter ( debris, sand, small particles etc ), NOT for taste or odors.
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If 1ppm solute of unknown identity went in and 59 more came out, I'd bet it's the carbon from the carbon filter. Nothing to worry about. Your water is still absolutely drinkable and mostly pure.
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To the best my knowledge, I taste no charcoal or other filter flavors. You never taste water so good! You do have to maintain the dome ( scrub it with a light brush once a month) and you do have to replace the mineral filter cartridge as well as the dome at some point.
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I've never had that happen to me but ZeroWater's troubleshooting page says that "The carbon inside the filter is rinsed before it's packed into the filter and will sometimes still be a bit wet when it's packaged. Having your filters arrive wet will not affect the performance of the filter." So I think you're ok.
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I bought a carbon "trim to fit" filter from Lowes and use it along with the permanent filter in this machine (they both fit, but it's tight). On a monthly basis, I vacuum the permanent filter and change the carbon filter each quarter.
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I think the directions said you had to run quite a bit of water when you first replace the filter. We did that and had no problems with the taste. Hope it gets better.
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The carbon particles are just residue from the filter, it took me three or more rinses before I felt it was clear enough to drink the water. The Stage-5 Carbon filter is a GAC (granular activated carbon) filter so it contains loose carbon media. When water runs through a new carbon filter, it is common for the filter to release a small amount of loose black carbon fines. Just continue to rinse until it is clear enough to make you fill comfortable. It's no big deal. Just check to make sure that the filter cartridge isn't cracked damaged from shipping.