Title: Pricey Insurance
Product review: Installed one of these in fall of 2009. It failed two weeks ago (July 2012). Being somewhat "handy" when it comes to fixing things I thought I'd see what the problem might be. The problem was that the green power light would not illuminate even though the power feed was fine. Took it apart and looked the printed circuit board over and saw nothing unusual. It looked like a $10-$20 circuit board and so checked around for a replacement board. No can do. Paid something in the neighborhood of $150 for this thing and got 2 years service out of it. Now they're more like $200. Gave it the old heave ho and installed a manual shut off valve, also made by Watts. With this manual valve (both lines shut off with one flick of the lever) and some extra heavy duty hoses going to the washer I think we'll have much better and less costly "insurance". Good thing I can do my own plumbing or I'd really be upset. I don't recall if I got mine at Amazon, but it did come from a .com store.
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