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Congratulations!
You have purchased the finest residential drinking water
system available for your home. It will provide you years of
reliable service if properly installed, operated and maintained.
Please read this entire manual before attempting installation
and operation.
Section 1. Frequently Asked Questions
Before getting started, take the time to familiarize yourself with your new Waterite
VECTAPURE
360
system by reading some FAQs listed below. Call us or ask your dealer if
you have any other questions about your system’s operation.
Q: How does your
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360
™ Drinking Water System differ from an ordinary water
filter?
Ordinary water filters use a cartridge or membrane contained in a sump or housing to filter your
drinking water. Cartridge or membrane changes require housing wrenches and manual insertion
of the cartridges into the housings.
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360
systems use a convenient quarter-turn
bayonet style cartridge that may be easily changed without any system disassembly. Your system
will deliver pure, bottled water quality water to a faucet conveniently located at your kitchen sink or
any other designated area.
Q: What is a membrane and how does it work?
An ultrafiltration (UF) membrane element consists of hollow capillaries or filaments, bundled
together and packed in a plastic tube. Each capillary has tiny pores that will allow water to pass to
its interior. As the raw water passes across the surface of the filaments, only clean water is
allowed to pass through and collect in the filaments and continue on in the system, while sediment
and other contaminants are rejected and retained by the cartridge. A reverse osmosis (RO)
membrane is a semi-permanent synthetic film that is spiral wound and separates raw water from
product water (permeate). Water containing dissolved contaminants and salts is forced though the
membrane by water pressure, with pure water being collected in the storage tank and rejected
contaminants flushed to waste.
Q: What processes does the
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360
systems use?
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™ systems use combinations of 5 types of treatment to produce your drinking
water. 5-micron polypropylene (PP) particle filters remove dirt, rust and other sediment. Activated
carbon cartridges (granular carbon in GAC and moulded briquettes in CBC) remove chlorine,
colour, taste, odours and other contaminants. UF membranes are used to reduce very fine
suspended particles, bacteria, cysts and viruses, in combination with PP and CBC cartridges. RO
membranes will reduce concentrations of dissolved ions in the water by up to 99.9%.
Q: Will membranes remove minerals and salts from the water?
Reverse Osmosis (RO) membranes will remove up to 99.9% of common salts in solution. UF
does not remove minerals from the product water, leaving calcium and other naturally occurring
minerals normally found in spring water to remain in your drinking water.
Q: Does membrane filtration remove bacteria? Cryptosporidium? Viruses?
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