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Enjoy unlimited ultra-fresh, healthy, great tasting drinking water straight from your kitchen tap for cooking and making delicious coffee, tea & ice. Save money, time, and hassle of buying costly, bottled water and live healthier with ultra-safe water that is nearly free of impurities. This premium-grade RO-90 system has been tested and approved to the highest standard in the industry – WQA gold seal, to provide the highest impurity removal rates, giving you the purest water possible. This stringent QC process eliminates even the slightest component imperfections to provide a system that removes nearly all impurities, such as chlorine, taste, odor, harmful fluoride, arsenic, lead, and chromium, and is completely free from water leaks, bursts and noises. All USA MADE super high capacity filters: 1st stage: High-grade & high-capacity polypropylene sediment filter – removes dirt, particles, and rust. Protects and extends the life of the membrane and system. 2nd stage & 3rd stage: Premium extruded carbon block – gets rid of unpleasant chlorine, tastes, odors, cloudiness and colors. Also removes VOC and other common agents from the water. 4th stage: Premium quality FILMTEC (DOW Industries) high rejection TFC reverse osmosis membrane. Removes up to nearly all Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) and impurities such as arsenic, lead, fluoride, chromium, radium and much more. 5th stage: Advanced coconut shell refining carbon – Total Impurity Removal filter removes any possible residual taste from the tank. Tank Dimensions- 11 inches x 11 inches x 15 inches.
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
Product Dimensions : 16 x 5.25 x 17.5 inches; 25 Pounds
Item model number : RO-90
Date First Available : January 8, 2014
Manufacturer : APEC Water Systems
ASIN : B00HRHHFPW
Country of Origin : USA
Enjoy unlimited ultra-fresh, clean, great tasting water right at home. Save money, time and hassle of buying costly, bottled water
Designed, engineered and assembled in USA, RO-90 is a dependable RO System rated to last over a decade and will greatly improve your water quality
Tested and approved by WQA to remove up to nearly all impurities including arsenic, chlorine, lead, fluoride, heavy metals and 1000+ impurities in your water
Large super capacity filters deliver 2X impurity removing capacity for fewer filter change outs compared to smaller all-in-one filters that clog up quickly
Comes with 100% lead-free designer faucet, plus JG high grade tubing to provide safe, impurity-free pure water. The original, top-notch JG Quick Connect fittings for easy and secure leak-seal. Maximum feed water pressure (psi):85
Simple and organized, RO-90 is designed to make identifying and replacing filters intuitive and easy
Provides you the ultimate satisfaction and peace of mind with our lifetime support and 2 year manufacturer coverage with registration
Customers say
Customers find the water purification unit easy to install with clear instructions. They say it functions as advertised and produces good-tasting water with zero odors. Many customers are satisfied with the value for money. However, some have differing views on leakage and flow rate.
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Raymond –
Great product! High quality components. Can be installed without the tank.
Great product! Very high quality components. Easy to install. Great customer service.My local municipal water has TDS around 330. The filtered water comes out around 10 and tastes great!I am using the system without the tank. You can do this by modify the tubing and connect the filtered output of the ro-membrane to the 5th stage filter directly (bypass/remove the T that feeds the tank and the 5th stage filter, very easy with quick connect used on the APEC system). I use glass pitchers to hold the water. It takes about 5 minutes for the RO-90 to fill up a 2-quart ikea glass pitcher (half gallon).Why would you want to use the system without the tank? To get the best tasting water and not have to worry about whether the tank material is safe or not. For the RO tank to work, the water has to be held inside a bladder in the tank, so that the air pressure around the bladder can push the water out when you need it. For this to work, the bladder has to be a flexible material that can expand and shrink as needed. The type of food grade material that is suitable for this purpose is limited. The material being used is polypropylene and butyl. Now, while this should be a safe material to use, it does add an after taste to the water, especially if the water has been sitting in the tank for a while. That’s why there’s a 5th stage carbon filter, to filter out the tank taste. But having an after taste that needs to be filtered out does imply that the tank material affects the water. If you don’t believe me, just read the Watts RO system reviews on amazon. Many are complaining about plastic water taste. The bladder also ages, and has an expected life of 8-10 years due to all the expansion and contraction.While I am sure the tank material used by APEC is better than the one in the Watts system, why get yourself into this situation at all? Just bypass the tank and store the filtered water in a glass pitcher. Glass is arguably the best material on earth to hold purified drinking water, and will not leach into or affect the water taste in any way.Bypassing the tank also allows you to have explicitly control over when to produce the filtered water. Tap water is generally better quality in the evening when everyone around is also using water. It is less good in the morning when the water has been sitting idle in aging pipes for hours. This is why when your local municipal utility conducts water tests, they usually flush out the water for a few minutes.My TDS test confirms this. Filtered water in late evening has TDS less than 10, while in early morning is around 20-25.I did contact APEC system and was very impressed by their customer support.
John Atkinson –
Best water filtration system money can buy!
We LOVE this RO system, we bought and returned the big berkley water filter for our horrible Las Vegas water and was sadly disappointed in what the Berkley was able to do. After a ton of research on the web and reading reviews we decided to go with APEC because you never know what you will end up with some poorly made system in china system that might break a valve and flood your home while your at work. The clean sweet flavor of good tasting clean water this system delivers is amazing. It reminds me of the water I drank from the tap when I was a kid back in the 70’s….Fresh and clean! Been using this system for 2 weeks and I will never go back to buying bottled water again. They also give you an extra set of filters and water tester which comes in handy to test the quality and to know when to replace the filters which by the way is really easy to do. To clean the system and sanitize it a friend who installed about 500 RO systems recommended once a year when you replace the filters to pour a few capfuls of hydrogen peroxide into the 3 empty chambers and clean em out with the peroxide andwater solution to get rid of any crud (2 carbon, 1 sediment) then disconnect the tube where it feeds into 3 gallon tank and suck out a little water from the feeder tube and replace that water with a little bit of peroxide and re-connect it to the tank so that the peroxide goes into the tank, thank you APEC!Update 3/16/2017:Still amazing water coming out with the same filters after 2 years, I tested the water purity with the electronic gizmo they give you to test purity and its still the same! The only issue I have had is the faucet on top of the sink leaks a little when you open it for water to come out but I was a little bit too hard on it with putting to much pressure on the valve when I opened the faucet … it was MY Fault… just me being impatient…lol. I called customer support and they offered a new one for half the price on amazon. Incredible company, first class support, and the best tasting water ever!
Clarisa –
It works wonders
There’s no noise. Water quality is really good and tastes amazing. Quick installation!
Michael –
Convenient and good quality
Before we had one of these, we had to constantly refill a gravity fed filter system and wait for it. Now we just turn on a faucet and pure water comes out.Installation took a while but the manual is detailed and has clear instructions. Due to the small size of our under sink area, I had to order the 3 gallon tank separately. It would be nice to have some different tank options in the kit version. Even with a smaller size tank, we never have any issues with running out of filtered water as it replenishes itself automatically.There was a bit of difficultly threading the retaining nut on the bottom of the output faucet. The threads are plastic on it and the nut didn’t threads on smoothly the first few turns, buy afterwards it was fine.Aside from that little bit, overall the build quality seems good and solid.
Ricardo C. –
Excelente aunque en mi ciudad necesito ayuda de una bomba presurizadora pero más que eso funciona muy bien
Samuel –
Alles Tip Top
Serge Lachapelle –
Waited a few weeks before reviewing… now I have been drinking the water for a few weeks, I must say I really like it.I am on a well that was dug last year at 160ft. My water is very hard and has over 700ppm of minerals but is otherwise great quality, no bacteria, no iron or other difficult to treat problems, just very mineral like it was expected in my area. So I installed a water softener to get the hardness down to less than one grain…in order to get ready for RO.I was looking for a good quality RO system with made in USA or Canada filters. My most important criteria was to get a real Dow membrane which this model has. So, on to this RO unit…Installation was done in about 2 hours. I am very handy and this was very easy. No leaks, no fuss… clear instruction (which is a frequent complaint with cheep systems). Every thing is high quality, the filter holders, the faucet and all of the hardware is very good…Water tasted a little metalic the first few days… figure it was the system flushing out (tank and filters). Now don’t worry about some black stuff in the first few flushes as this is the loose carbon in the carbon filters, they all do that (all those I have owned…they flush themselves…) . So what I did was drain the tank every time I passed by it in the first few days… then the water taste cleared up real nice. It now tastes like bottled water…Now, my input is over 700ppm of dissolved solids (varies between 700 and 720)… when I measure the output of this system, it hovers around 20ppm… now that is a 97.3% rejection by the membrane… good job Dow Filmtec … That is why I wanted an American made membrane…Now I am not worried about chlorine as I get my water from a well but I also liked the fact that it has 2 carbon stages for other agricultural chemicals…I would definitely recommend this unit… I am very pleased with the value and ease of installation…
Allan –
Very good quality, tastes great, great flow. However, had to purchase pipe fittings, otherwise you have to slheat sodder pipes if you know how to do that reliably leak free. It took three hours only because it’s my first time. Had to buy a proper copper pipe cutting tool..you need clean square smooth edges, sharkbite fittings for 1/2″ to connect to existing pipes. All that cost another $50 Can. However, its worth it, great water and no flow issues or algae issues like the Berkey system, and cost for filters is more reasonable also. Just get your tools and parts and install the thing, you’ll be happy too, but yes, a good effort first time around. Now I’m offering to get one for my parents and install it for them. You too can become a water person after you go through this ritual.
PABLO R PREISSER –
Fácil de instalar, pero asegúrate de tener la presión adecuada (50 – 80 psi) para que se llene el tanque que viene en el sistema de purificación, de otra forma tienes que instalar una bomba para pecera que aumente la presión que entre al sistema. Las partículas por millón que recibo en Cuajimalpa, marca 96 PPM, después de filtrarse el agua, me marca 03 PPM. ¡Increíble!. Incluso el agua embotellada marca 50 a 60 PPM y el filtro sencillo que instalé para los hielos del refrigerador, solamente reduce la mala calidad a 70 PPM. En resumen, vale la pena invertir en este sistema.