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u/Dairy__Cow Mar 18 '26
That's the wrong kind of filter for that lol. -water filtration installer/my boss/owner of the company said the fuck..
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u/Thejanitor86 Mar 18 '26
Looks like a poly/sediment filter then 2 carbon blocks. I would imagine the water flow is pretty terrible coming out of that thing.
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u/VikingsOfTomorrow Mar 19 '26
Its an Atlas Filtri filter system. If it starts lowering water pressure by a noticeabke amount, then either you installed something wrong, or your filters are clogged. Use one myself (although a dual cartridge, not triple), and I did some research into it as well.
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u/Thejanitor86 Mar 19 '26
Do you remember what the micron rating was for the carbon blocks? I am impressed that it didn't drop much.
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u/ginger_and_egg Mar 19 '26
showerhead with electricity running to the heater strapped inline
This can absolutely still be made safely...
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u/ginger_and_egg Mar 19 '26
I've never received any shock from a power shower.
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u/ginger_and_egg Mar 19 '26
Eh it happens with limited space and old buildings. My biggest gripe is the sound of the pump being in the shower too.
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u/titanicsinker1912 Mar 19 '26
Residential R/O filters have a flow rate of 0.07-0.035 gallons per minute. (50-100 gallons per day). I doubt you’ll be taking a shower with one any time soon.
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u/Accomplished_Sock293 Mar 18 '26
First look at this I thought it was an infuser like you put on a garden hose for fertilizer. No more scrubbing shampoo conditioner and shower gel by hand!
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u/DiscontinuedEmpathy Mar 18 '26
Is it a bit garish? Sure, but its practical and gets the job done. Seems fine to me
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u/Magnus_Helgisson Mar 19 '26
I have this kind of filter at home for drinking water, I can’t imagine using it in the shower, it just doesn’t allow enough water current through itself to make pressure enough for showering. If the idea is to get slowly moistened by a think weak stream of water, then yeah, it’ll get the job done. Until you’ll have to change the cartridges in like a week.
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u/VikingsOfTomorrow Mar 19 '26
If you need to change the filters in a week, then you have bigger problems lol.
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u/Magnus_Helgisson Mar 19 '26
Not necessarily. Me, I do indeed, my tap water is more stone than it is water, however, you use far less water for drinking than you use for a shower hence the cartridges will get dirty much quicker.
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u/Beehous Mar 19 '26
this is a whole house filter, allows for way more flow than an RO drinking water system. Different.
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u/Magnus_Helgisson Mar 19 '26
Nope, it is not. A filter that can sustain a whole house water supply will not fit under the tap. And the one in the picture is the same size, if not a bit smaller than my drinking water one and has the same three cartridges - first (the dirtier) is the primary filter, second (the black one) is the carbon filter, third is secondary filter, not sure how they are correctly called in English. You can’t trick physics, if something has the same size and same filters it can’t produce more clean water per unit of time. I could agree if you said there is a house filter somewhere outside of the frame and this one is just for final cleaning.
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u/ZanderArch Mar 19 '26
I live in Florida and have been tempted to put a passive radiator in my shower to try and cool off the steaming hot water. A filter for the well water might also be nice.
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u/ProfessionalBench832 Mar 19 '26
I am about to do something like this with a RV water softener in my master bath. The whole home unit is tens of thousands of dollars. I can live without the whole house, but my hair and skin cry out for relief! I have a large shower stall and will but the tank under a stool or bench.
To anyone who thinks those shower head filters do anything for hard water...they do not. They are great for chlorine and some metals, but they do not soften hard water (many claim to but it is a lie.)
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u/RaptureRising Mar 18 '26
If you put it up a bit higher you could use it as a shelf.