Camco TastePURE RV Water Filter with Flexible Hose Protector (40043)
[{'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2017', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "I have run these for years in my RV and they work killer! Here's some more in-depth thoughts:\n\nPros:\n- These work better than I had expected. Just hook them up to the water source, hook your hose to it, run it to your trailer and viola` clean and good tasting water. Some of the places we have visited have had water that I wouldn't feed to my worst enemy. With this thing attached, it's very good tasting.\n- I like the hose attachment that comes with this to aide in adding flexibility to the system and not put too much strain on the system. I have bought so many of these, I now use one attaching the filter to the nozzle, one out of the filter to my hose, and one attaching my hose to the trailer.\n\nNotes:\n- I will note that the manufacturer suggesting using these for only 1 camping season, and this makes sense. That's what I do, and it seems to work out great. It's not too much $ to replace every season.\n- Another note, when first putting this filter into service (just the first time of the season, subsequent hook-ups wont do this) there will be a bunch of carbon (black in the water) that comes out of the faucet in your trailer. This is perfectly fine, safe, and of no issue. This is the filter breaking in and getting the extra carbon out of the system. There is no health concern with this happening. I just run the faucet until it clears up, and then we're good to go for the rest of the season.\n- Last note, when we unhook from our camping spot, I swing the filter in my hand with my arm extended (using centrifugal force, not centrifical, look it up) to get the residual water out of the filter so it doesn't sit in there and spoil. I do this until I get most of the water drops to stop, leave it out on the counter to dry, and boom, it's perfect the next time.\n\nCons:\n- None to report\n\nOverall this filter does a great job taking care of some seriously nasty campground water that we've encountered all over the Southwest US. I cannot recommend it any higher.\n\nI hope I have helped your purchasing decision of this product. I am not affiliated with the manufacturer, seller or any other product related company nor am I under any obligation to write this review. I do this for my own fun and to help others in the Amazon Community! Feel free to comment and let me know if I have helped you, and please note below if this review was able to help. If you should have any questions, please post them below in the Comments. I try to answer all inquires in a timely fashion to the best of my ability."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on May 1, 2019', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-2 review-rating', 'review_body': 'I purchased this to produce a spotless rinse while cleaning cars but ran some tests on the filter. Long story short, it didn\'t work out. Here\'s how I tested:\n\nAfter receiving the filter, I attached to my water spigot and purged for 2 minutes. I took glass 1, rinsed and filled the glass with filtered water. I removed the filter again and filled glass 2 with tap water. Examined 3 areas:\n\n1) VISUAL: Both tap water and filtered water appeared clear or colors or sediment. PASS\n\n2) TASTE: The filtered water had slightly less taste, but hardly noticeable: BARELY PASS\n\n3) TDS metering: I bought a "Total Dissolved Solids" meter than measures purity. (ex. tap water: 100-400ppm - Distilled water: 0ppm). My tap water measured at 402 ppm, but the filtered water came in at 442ppm!! What?? The filtered water came in LESS pure?\n\nMost likely the higher TDS rating likely came from harmless excess sediment from\nthe carbon filter. It appears these carbon filters are designed to only filter out non TDS solids (ex converting gross well/hose water into more pleasant drinking water).\n\nOVERALL: These may still be good for converting clean hose water into something more palatable for RVs, but certainly not for creating a spot-free rinse. I don’t think any carbon filter can obtain a low TDS (spot-free) rinse. If that’s what you’re looking for, your remaining options are likely either triple osmosis or distilled.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2018', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "We got tired of having to drink bottled water everywhere we went and using all those plastic bottles that are not good for the environment. So we decided to go the water filter route.\n\nAfter researching a few, I decided on this one for a couple of reasons. First, it's inline and can be placed at the camper end or faucet end of your hose. Just make sure the arrow is pointing the right direction! ;) Second it's small enough to fit in the water/TV/ connection cubby on the side of our 5th wheel. I connect mine at the camper end to prevent any ideas of anyone stealing it (not that campers are like that, just to remove the temptation).\n\nIt's a simple matter of attaching it, paying attention to the flow arrow to the side of my RV and then attaching the water supply hose to the filter.\n\nNOTE: BEFORE attaching this to your camper supply for the first time, flush it out by attaching you supply hose and letting the water run through it until the water runs clear. It will run black and grey for a minute because this filter uses activated charcoal as part of the filter system and it needs to be rinsed before use. After use, I drain all the water I can from it by simple shaking it and letting it dry out for a bit. Have not had any issues with it yet.\n\nAlso, they recommend you change it every season. Depending on how much water you put through your system and how long you use your RV, I would say this is average and OK. But if your full time I would change it about every 4-6 months. We don't live in ours yet, and will be changing it every season.\n\nI highly recommend this filter to eliminate that nasty water at some campgrounds and to help eliminate the waste of bottled water.\n\nI under any obligation to write this review. I do this to help others in the Amazon Community! Feel free to comment and let me know if I have helped you, and please note below if this review was able to help. If you should have any questions, please post them below in the Comments. I try to answer all inquiries to the best of my ability."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2017', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'Update 12/2020\nAfter using these for years I have a tip I can pass along. When you’re about ready to throw your filter out don’t forget to take the o ring out of it.\n\nOn a recent trip I needed to take out the screened o-ring on our water regulator and damaged it removing it so I needed a replacement but didn’t have one.\n\nWhen you’re going to throw this filter away flip it on its side and remove the screened washer with a small flat head screw driver. Your city water inlet uses one and so does your water pressure regulator (if you use one) so having a spare (especially a cheap one like this) is a good idea!\n\nOriginal review;\n\nLeave a comment if you have any questions and I can either take some photos or give more details.\n\nI used this for one camping season in my RV and can report no issues. I suggest keeping a few extra Hose O rings packed just in case you loose one. I lost one on the first trip of the season and ended up needing to use a spare to be able to fully hook up at the site.\n\nDo follow the instructions and allow water to run through it for a couple minutes to get all the carbon dust out. The water will initially run very black until it\'s cleared the dust out.\n\nFor storage I use a 15 quart hefty latching lid tote. It allows me to store this and my 25\' clean water hose separate and protected from anything during storage and transit. I keep my Y adapter and PSI regultor in this same tote.\n\nWhen I get home I open the tote, prop up the filter in the tote to help with draining and then just pour the water into the yard when it\'s done draining.\n\nMy camp setup is;\nRV > right angle adapter > water hose > filter > PSI regulator adapter > hose Y adapter > and then site spigot.\n\nMy photo isn\'t the best shot of the setup I could have gotten but I also chose it because of the family of deer in the background.\n\nI have not used the spring adapter but have it packed in my "Travel RV tool kit" in case I need it.\n\nMy only concern would be durability if dropped. I think the chance of it cracking would be more during removal then attaching as it would be heavier with water still inside it.\n\nI do plan on buying this product again when I need another.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2017', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'fit the garden hose perfectly. I am using it to filter chlorine and chemicals from water for my green house and vegetable garden. Water flow is not reduced at all.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2020', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'Use this guy with a "white" hose designed for potable water. It makes it much more effective if it doesn\'t also have to filter out icky hose taste. When you first run water through this, carbon bits come out in some quantity. This is right in the directions, so don\'t be surprised. The instructions say to run it a minute when first used. After this, I detect no loose carbon coming out, even when I\'ve run it into clear glasses or clean white buckets.\n\nTaste is noticeably better using this than using a hose.\n\nI use this in conjunction with a UV water sanitizer. This unit takes out the big particles and the other things amenable to a filter of this size and type, PLUS it slows the water flow down enough for the UV sanitizer to do it\'s job on anything left over this filter doesn\'t remove. The water in my boat is now clean and pure tasting, regardless of what marina I choose to top off the tank.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2020', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "When first installing it you gotta let it run through all the pipes for a bit before you get it all cleared and filtered through. Once it's been flushed out, the water blew me away with how good it tasted, or didn't taste. I've never tasted water that was so tasteless. It even feels smoother, it's weird and I don't know how else to describe it.\n\nOne thing to keep in mind is the filter only lasts up to 500 gallons according to the manufacturer, but I have seen people's reviews that say it lasts longer. Our trailer only have 1 water hookup meaning that ALL water is being used through the filter. We live in the trailer full time. This is honestly great in terms or drinking, washing dishes and hands, and even showering. It's nice to have clean water. The only downside is it runs it through the toilet as well. Thankfully we have a second hose that I can use to help with flushing. It's not a direct hookup but I can run the hose in through the door. We minimized our flushing and I'll use that hose as a backup.\n\nIt may not be the cheapest way to get drinking water, but the overall quality of the water is worth it. I would prefer to shower and wash my dishes in clean filtered water, as well as drink it. We were already spending about $30 a month on drinking filters alone. I figure we will have to change these filters out every 5-7 days (this is based off water usage numbers I Googled and such which I estimate about 80 gallons per day or less for two people). Where we live we don't pay for water, so spending $80ish a month of clean, safe water is doable and very worth it to us.\n\nAs of this review we are 4 solid days into use and the water is still tasting great. I'm going based off taste/order/maybe coloring of the water to know when to change it out."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2018', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "First off, don't be fooled by the most common use, you ARE allowed to use these if you are tent camping in the campground as well!\nWe are spoiled to a nice whole house filtration system, and find it odd that the water supplies at campgrounds tend to be of typically poor quality, high in iron content, and heaven knows what else.... We picked one of these up along with a pressure regulator, and a potable water hose. I mean why should the RVers be the only ones in the campground with safe water? The stress relief hose is nice to keep tension off the plastic body of the filter. Construction is as good as any other mass produced inline filter, except this one has hose thread ends instead of standard pipe thread.\n\nIn testing at my local park (prepping for a camping trip), we have found the brownish iron laden water has been turned clear no problems. If I had a test kit to verify exactly how clean the water gets, and how lousy it started out I would give you data, but I don't have that available... The specs are pretty good though, and I can believe the water is drinkable at this point...\n\nOne suggestion for transport though. Keep this separate from anything dirty, you do not want to contaminate your filter, hose etc... I got one of those nylon laundry bags, which I line with a sanitary white kitchen trash bag, the filter, regulator, stress relief hose and drinking hose go in the trash sack, and that all goes into the nylon laundry bag before it gets packed away for transport. This is ESPECIALLY important for RVs where the water supply, and sewage hose are stored in the same compartment!"}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2020', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "I recently bought a new drinking water hose and found that there was a horrible taste and smell of rubber when I ran the water into the RV. Now, this is a new-to-me older RV and this was the first time I hooked it up with a hose, so I realize that there may be other factors why the filter isn't working quite as well as I would wish. As is, after hooked the filter into the line, the water is now potable with only a slight rubber accent. By running the water from the faucet through a Brita pitcher, it tastes and smells fine. For washing my hands or dishes, the water filtered through this item works great.\n\nBottom line: it's worth the money."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2016', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "This water filter is not to make non potable water potable but to improve the taste of water. It functions very much the same as a brita filter on a sink or a pitcher that people use in their homes. We are very happy with this purchase for our RV as the water where we are at you can smell the chlorine in. It literally smells like bleach water on some days. Once installing this there is a huge improvement in taste. We do not have any leaking either. We use it in conjunction with a pressure regulator and a hose elbow on our RV to make sure we don't have kinked hoses or pressure problems. Will be purchasing more of these in the future as it wears out."}]