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Please make sure to FIRMLY push the tubing into the various fittings throughout this installation.
Now insert the needle piecing saddle clamp’s red tubing into the other side of the Manual Shut Off
valve completing the feed water line pathway to your filtration system.
5.4 Piercing the cold water line
Ensuring the needle piecing saddle clamp is firmly in place, screw down the needle of the saddle
clamp using the horizontal bar on top of the clamp.
Note: You will feel resistance when the needle is piercing the cold water line, so pay attention to the
amount of resistance experienced. This resistance will stop when you have successfully pierced the
cold water line. CAUTION: Do not screw in the needle valve to its maximum depth as you then risk
piercing the opposite side of your cold water line.
After the cold water line has been pierced, turn the horizontal bar on the top of the clamp counter
clockwise (left) until it becomes snug. This retracts the piercing needle creating a path for feed water
to flow into the red tubing – supplying your system with its feed water.
PLEASE NOTE:
Do not turn your home’s emergency cold water shut off back to its ON position yet!
5.5 Flushing of the Pre-filters
Found in your Large Parts
Bag is a coiled length of blue
tubing. Uncoil the tubing
and insert one end into
the “OUTPUT” elbow (right
side) of the three pre-filters
and place the other end of
the blue tubing into your
kitchen sink. (Fig 9)
This will allow for the water to flow through the three pre-filters and then into your kitchen sink, flush-
ing out any and all loose particulates and carbon dust thereby preventing these initial loose particu-
lates from reaching the 4th stage (Reverse Osmosis Membrane) ensuring the maximum life span of the
Reverse Osmosis Membrane.
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blue tubing
manual
shut off
valve
Figure 9
Flushing the
pre-filters
Figure 8
Complete the
feed water
pathway to your
system by
following the
diagram
Insert 4 inch piece of
red tubing into elbow
on “water inlet” side of
pre-filter housing
1
Attach shut
off valve to
red tubing
2
Attach the
long red
tubing to other
side of shut
off valve
3
red tubing
red tubing
Manual shut
off valve
Cap
elbow
“water inlet”
(left) side
(1st prefilter
housing)
red tubing
leads to needle
piercing saddle
clamp which
is attached to
your home’s
cold water line
Side
view
5.1 Special note about braided wire plumbing
Please Note: DO NOT ATTEMPT
TO INSTALL THE NEEDLE PIERCING
SADDLE CLAMP TO BRAIDED WIRE
PLUMBING (Fig. 6).
You can install the needle piercing saddle clamp to
all other forms of cold water lines found under the
common sink, just not the kind of plumbing de-
picted in Fig 6. The braided plumbing in Fig 6 is too
soft a material and will therefore not allow for the
proper seal needed. The inside of braided plumbing lines may vary and therefore may look differently
from this example. Don’t let this confuse you. If the plumbing line is braided, DO NOT attempt to install
the feed water needed piercing valve to it. If you have this kind of plumbing there is usually a piece of
copper pipe that is located directly under your kitchen sink’s faucet assembly which you can mount to
OR see our 3/8” x 3/8” x 1/4” plumbing adaptor on our website.
5.2 Installing the Needle Piecing Saddle Clamp to the cold water line.
Rotate the horizontal turning bar of the needle piercing valve to the left (counter clockwise) as you
do not want to pierce your cold water line at this stage. Make sure the needle is retracted all the way.
Next, clamp your cold water line TIGHTLY using the needle piercing saddle clamp which can be found
in your Large Parts Bag. (Fig. 7) You will need a Phillips screwdriver and small pair or pliers for this step.
Be sure to install above your
sink’s shut off valve.
DO NOT ATTACH TO THE HOT
WATER PIPE—AS HOT WATER
WILL DAMAGE THE FILTERS
WITHIN YOUR SYSTEM.
DO NOT PIERCE THE COLD
WATER LINE AT THIS
STAGE !
5.3 Connecting the feed water line to your system.
Next, take the 2-4 Inch piece of red tube from the Small Parts Bag and insert it into the elbow on the
“INLET” (left) side of the pre-filters (Fig. 8 - next page), then take the manual shut off valve, also found
in the Small Parts Bag, and attach it to the other end of the red tube (Fig. 8 - next page).
Figure 6
Braided undersink
plumbing. DO
NOT attempt to
Install onto this
kind of plumbing.
Figure 7
Needle piercing
valve in place
on home’s cold
water line.
Corrugated nylon tube
Braided wire plumbing
home’s cold
water line to faucet
home cold water shut off
red tubing
horizontal turning bar
Needle piercing
saddle clamp
To more easily insert the tubing into the various fittings of your system it
is helpful to remove the blue “C” clip from around the collet and then in-
sert the tubing. After the tubing has been inserted into place, pull lightly
on the tubing in order to make room for the blue “C” clip and then place
the blue “C” clip back into its original position. The blue “C” clip holds the
collet in its proper position while the system is in operation.
TIP
blue
‘C’ Clip
collet
WARNING
