But not only that, the PC also reduces chemicals like VOCs and water-soluble heavy metals including chromium and lead. High-grade catalytic granular activated carbon is the primary filter media.
So you can be rest assured that this water filter works exactly as advertised. In addition to catalytic carbon, we have copper-zinc oxidation media KDF mainly to inhibit bacteria and algae growth inside the tank for obvious health reasons.
Peak flow is 12 gpm. After 5 years or , gallons, the media bed inside the tank is saturated. The good news: You can easily replace it yourself — no need to call a plumber. Plus, you can keep the tank! All in all, the Pelican PC provides clean and great-tasting water for a reasonable price. It, too, was designed for the elimination of chlorine and chloramine among other contaminants from municipal water supplies. And Pelican guarantees chlorine and chloramine reduction below the minimum detection level for that same period.
The addition of KDF prevents microorganisms from growing inside the system tank. Installation and maintenance are DIY friendly. Simply calculate your total household water use by the gpg in your water. In our example, gallons multiplied by 10 gpg equals 3, gpg.
Pelican Water softener systems are sold in multiple sizes, and these sizes are named with approximate calculations based on the amount of water usage in your home. Water hardness is typically measured in grains per gallon, but some laboratories use milligrams per liter, or parts per million. One part per million ppm is precisely what it sounds like: one unit out of one million units.
For a quick comparison, If measured in parts per million or milligrams per liter, simply divide the hardness measurement by Converting to grains per gallon helps homeowners who are shopping for water softeners to better understand their water hardness and to more confidently shop for the appropriate softener. Nearly all water softeners express their efficiency in gpg. No matter what water softener you purchase, you must turn off the water main and drain the remaining water in your system before beginning installation to avoid leaks and other potential issues.
For our more comprehensive systems you may have to cut your pipes where you install the system, most likely in your basement. If you are not comfortable with plumbing and other fixtures you can hire a professional to install your system in just a couple of hours, or you can purchase an installation kit to make the process hassle-free.
Then, you will install the softener tank, and finally use the bypass valve to soak the media before you begin using the system. If you live in an apartment, RV, condo, boat, or other compact living space you may go with the EZ-Connect Softener and Filter instead.
The amount of maintenance required for a water softener greatly varies depending on your decision to purchase a salt-based softener or a water softener alternative. Salt-based water softeners utilize electricity, generate brine that must be discharged, and require monthly maintenance to replenish the salt ions within the system. A water softener alternative, on the other hand, are virtually maintenance-free.
There are no salt ions or other chemicals used in the alternative water softening process, and there is also no expenditure of electricity. Since ions are not swapped out within your water supply there is no waste water that accumulates or that is discharged back into the water supply. Due to the way a water softener functions you will not need to perform regular maintenance on the unit itself.
Depending on which water softener alternative you purchase from Pelican Water, only certain cartridges and filters will need to be replaced.
If you choose the EZ-Connect compact softener and filter you will need to replace the filter every six months. Other than occasional filter replacement your unit will need no ongoing maintenance. To save money long-term and reduce environmental impact the only choice is Pelican Water. The unit is designed for at-home installation, with everything you need to quickly attach it to your waterline.
The Pelican RO water system boasts incredibly high-quality performance thanks to its combination of water filtration and reverse osmosis. The unit contains several water filters, including a sediment filter, pre-filtration media, a filtering stage, a reverse osmosis membrane, a polishing stage, and a remineralization stage. In each of these stages, the unit will reduce chlorine, lead, suspended sediment, arsenic, copper, cysts, fluoride and more, leaving great-tasting, clean water as the outcome.
What makes the Pelican RO water filter a standout from its competitors is its reverse osmosis membrane. When water is forced through a semi-permeable membrane, any contaminants that are too large to fit through the membrane end up being flushed down the drain. The Pelican water countertop unit offers a convenient solution to bottled water, being one of the simplest and easiest-to-install water filters offered by Pelican. The unit comes with a chrome diverter, faucet adapters, washer, and hose — everything you need for installation.
You install the Pelican on your countertop near your kitchen sink. When you turn on your tap, water runs through multiple stages of filtration within a single cartridge, including a carbon block media, which uses adsorption to remove chlorine and lead. Once water has flowed through the unit, it will pass through a hose and out of the faucet, ready for drinking. In total, the Pelican Water countertop unit removes 60 contaminants — an impressive number for a countertop water filtering unit.
The filtered contaminants include lead, mercury, chlorine and chloramines, cysts, and pharmaceuticals. You can choose to buy this unit with or without a shower head. With its dual flow design, you can switch between high-flow and water conservation.
The Pelican shower filter combines three filtration processes, with a copper and zinc media, a GAC media, and far-infrared emitting volcanic media. In the copper and zinc stage, KDF takes place; adsorption takes place in the GAC stage; and the far-infrared volcanic media reduces negative ions, helping to improve water quality.
When the company disappeared we got Sears to maintain it and then of course from there on the entire system began failing. So we shopped and finally bought one from Sears. Don't know the name since it has been a few years. Now our contractor who remodeled our home tells us salt free softener "Nuvo" is good since it is small, occupies less space and he does not even need an RO for it. Somehow I was not convinced so I did some research online and chanced on your explanation which is that of a professional working in the field.
So I am now convinced that salt free is not what it is made out to be. Although carrying lbs of salt is not a joke for a 5 feet something woman.
Name a couple good whole house water softeners please. Thank you for clearing up our doubts. Robin Clark. I researched all the units you mentioned against the Aquios system and pretty much found the same information about them as well.
No Salt! No Electicity! No Hard Scale! No Oder! Great Taste! First of all, it is not a softener and secondly, we don't run into it very often. It uses basically the same technology as our Limeblaster units.
George G Higgs. Very well written article, happy to get the real scoop on water treatment solutions. Have a customer who asked me about the difference yesterday but did not have a truthful answer for them. My reply was to do a Google search and read all they could about the two systems.
Also advised them to not make a decision until much research was done by them and myself as well. Thanks for setting the myth straight. Will bookmark your article and let them read it. I am moving to a place with very hard water.
When I visit my soon to be new home area there is softener. I don't know what kind of water softener the corporate housing has It is horrible on my hair my hair is frizzy and overly soft.
I hate it. So question is we are building a house and must get a softener what softeners should I get? Move from Cincinnati water to San Antonio to water. Sue, We sell a lot of systems in San Antonio which has very hard water.
Ken Larsen. My water hardness is GPG, according to the city website. I've replaced my water heater four times in the last ten years because the capacity is so reduced by scale that you have to hurry while showering. I buy a gallon of vinegar a month to clean my coffee pot. I'm not too concerned with how much lather I get when I bathe, etc. I'm just tired of carrying thirty gallon water heaters full of scale deposits. I really haven't got the space for another appliance either, I live in a trailer house.
I think that salt-free would be the way to go for me. I've been looking at ScaleBlaster mostly, but they all seem to do the same thing. They say they will reduce or remove the deposits that are already formed in my water heater and pipes also, which would be great. Am I thnking correctly? We do not believe in the Junk Science of the Scaleblaster. The more I read, the more I am confused. I do not want a softener, I want a conditioner.
I have a very porous rock in the shower. House is 3 weeks old and I can already seem the scale build up. What particular salt free equipment or combination of equipments would best reduce the build up in my showers?
After doing several water tests with little white strips with colored dots on them. We were advised that yes, we had hard water, and these are the soft water system we needed. I find this to be extremely expensive! I can't find any price points to compare he cost with. It feels like the rep is throwing in all these freebies just to get my attention away from the HIGH price. We are really tired of the calcium residue feeling on our skin after taking showers and just want something to get rid of the hard water our glass cups and plates always have the white residue after hand washing them and we are blowing through laundry detergent like water, I already replaced a bathroom faucet cartridge due to residue from the water which totally dissolved and cracked a plastic nut fastener within the cold water faucet knob , Is there anything you can recommend, we are new home owners 6 months and a family of three - 2 adults and a 6yr old, we live in a one family home which has 2 full baths.
Any recommendations are really appreciated. Also, let me know if you have any affiliates in this area. I hate to call that a scam because this is how many dealers go to market, but as you have already seen, it is not a good deal.
The Pelican PAC3 is an OK system which really does soften the water, unlike some of their other "softeners" which do not. The valve on that softener was obsoleted by Fleck almost a year ago. We never sold that valve - for a reason - it is very unreliable. I live in Fort Mohave, AZ. My home built in initially had a water softener. Husband's doctor suggested we get rid of it because of the negative side effects of salt with his high no and heart problems.
Our water quality is good all levels of contaminants except the ph 8. After a few washes of new clothes they seem dingy, let alone hair and body after a shower is extremely dry, this in turn adds more expense in lotions, shampoo and conditioners. What solutions do I have without spending another fortune? S Whitney. Mark - we purchased a Pelican salt free water softener about 3 months ago. Pelican is offering to switch out the system to their actual salt using system with no add'l charge.
Will it work like my old culligan system did? Per our water report we have 18 grains per million hardness. I don't care for the salt free system as dishes are no longer getting clean all the time and it seems like my shower door is constantly cloudy even though I scrubbed it well and put rain Ex on like they suggested and now continue to scrub it every other day.
My husband and I are on different sides of the fence about the system. He likes the non slick feeling of the water and I feel like I have something stuck on my skin, my hair is yucky.
I don't care if I have water spots on the dishes, but it seems like I can't keep anything clean anymore.. Well, you are correct. You do have soap and hardness stuck in the pores of your skin with hard water. To prove it, you can wash one hand in hard water and one hand in soft water with a soap that has a strong taste like Ivory. Then rinse each and in the soft water and the hard water and after you dry them, you will noit taste the soap on the softnwater but will on the hard water.
Do you still trust Pelican after they sold you what they called a Salt-Free Water Softener, which does not soften the water? If so, go for it, or demand your money back and buy ours.
They do not exist. I work in a textile mill, and we have a current resin ion-interchange system to obtain soft water using salt. Our hard water has ppm Hardness. Is it safe to use TAC technology to obtain conditioned water to avoid scale on pipes and Boilers? Does the final crystal seed has any ionic charge that could affect dyeing or bleaching? We used to use TAC Technology and don't because it has a poor "predictable success rate" in our opinion. I think the "seed crystal" is more fiction than fact.
Just my opinion based upon 45 years of water treatment experience. How do these work? Are they ion exchange or membrane based? How do they cause minerals to precipitate out? Basically, I need to know how they work before considering a purchase. They don't work. There is no such things as a salt-free water softener. That's the point! Tara D. You mentioned Easy Water in your article. Would you say the salt-free conditioner is effective and worth the cost? We purchased it in Indiana about 3 months ago and I have not noticed a difference.
I'm considering returning it. We are also located in Indy and very familiar with Easy Water. Your observation is typical of our testing. We have one and could not discern any difference between the treated and untreated water. Mark at the plant I work at we have 2 U. S Water, softeners up stream of that we have 3 of their multi media filters the problem we have is that when the softners switch the one that was on standby has a huge hardness spike for awhile then goes away.
Any thoughts on this would be appreciated. There are many factors at work here. You should call our tech support at for help. John H. Do you have any updates on this issue? I contacted Pelican, ask for tests to backup claims, all their test were done in Germany, I have no idea what their water is like over there. I asked if it was tested in Florida, they based there after all, answer no it wasn't Looks like scam.
Pelican does not soften water, even though they call it a "softener. It's not what they call it and it is easily proved. If they start by calling something a water softener and yet, it does not soften the water Fool me once Good artical as a chemical engineer it was bs free. I have struggled for years with hard water and installed an iron filter it works great. I always wondered if similar technology was available for mg and ca Now I know. Hi, Mark I had a problem getting my washer to drain the detergent out during the rinse cycles.
I tried several popular methods I read about online such as using very low amounts of detergent, using vinegar, cleaning the machine with Affresh type cleaners, and such but with no improvement not to mention those methods felt pretty off to me.
The only thing that worked satisfactorily was a liquid called Calgon. I don't think it is perfect, but it is satisfactory for me. The problem is that with the amount of laundry our family goes through every week, it seems rather expensive and not so environmentally friendly to constantly be buying the little bottles it comes in. Do you have any salt-less products that can deliver similar or better results that can be installed either for the whole house or adapted to the washer and perhaps the shower head?
There is nothing that will improve that, except a water softener. Of course there are some people who SAY that have something that will. Be careful what you believe The tankless water heater in our new house is installed outside the house. There's no good drainage option out there so I think we're stuck with one of these "conditioning" systems. But it seems like many of them say to avoid direct sunlight, which it will undoubtedly get for at least a couple of hours a day.
Are any options better than others in this situation? Right now, there is nothing better! Mark, I bought this limeblaster and used it for about 4 years and just went through the Texas storms where my 11 year old Takagi tankless water heater outdoor finally busted a pipe in the heat exchanger. I took a moment to take a closer look and was curious to see if any scale had developed. I didn't see too much scale within the exchanger where the cracked hole formed, however I did see a lot of iron red looking deposits right at the hot-side outlet.
I never noticed any of the deposits during hot water use, but hot water was always less flow and this might have been the reason. Reading this old article from Clemson University, it talks about the drawbacks of polyphosphates -- "These units can handle up to 3 milligrams per liter of iron in solution. They contain a phosphate compound which coats the soluble iron and prevents its oxidation when the water is exposed to air. The compound is not effective against ferric iron that has already oxidized.
Polyphosphate is only effective in cold water. Heating the water will release the iron so that oxidized iron accumulates in the water heater.
The heated water will be rusty and unsatisfactory for home use. BTW, what is the amount of Siliphos in each cartridge? Trying to determine what your dosing at? It sounds like what you may be seeing is some corrosion, rusting, or electrolysis at the outlet, which could very well be caused by dissimilar metals. If you are only seeing it at the outlet and not in the heating area, then that makes it extremely likely. Polyphosphates have improved over the years and are now more capable of handling higher temperatures… sometimes up to Degrees F.
Using a cartridge is not an exact science and we have had a lot of success with our Green Wave System for the Whole House with the Limeblaster feeding just the water heater. Additionally, we are re-formulating the Limeblaster to be able to withstand even higher temperatures. Alfred Engling. We sell all over the country, but only sell direct. We have no dealers or middlemen.
That saves you a lot of money. About half our customers do it themselves we have SS flex connectors and the other half use a handyman. Victor walker. Mark I have been researching systems till I am ready to slit my throat. So many inconsistencies on the web.
The water flow in our house 10 years old is terrible. I am ready to replace the hot water heater and all of the shower valves. Before I do I know I need a system. I want a slightly oversized system just so I have some peace of mind. Can you suggest a system? Is there anything I can do to repair the current buildup other than replace everything?
Duy Pham. The water report in my area says it has 63 ppm Calcium and 57 ppm Magnesium. I currently have a RO system under the sink for drinking water. I had a Culligan salt water softener but it broke down 5 years ago. Can you recommend a whole house saltless water conditioner system for me? Also do I need professional installation for the system?
I already have a drainage line built in where the water softener was placed. We sell the Limeblaster salt free conditioner. If we find a better one - we will sell it. Danielle Budau. I don't know what to do at this point. We have a water person that comes out every month and he's tested the levels, all is good.
Do you have any suggestions? Elaborate more about your problems. How is salt destroying your skin and hair? By the way, it's not salt that is in the water. It's sodium bicarbonate. There's a big difference Milton Roberts. Hello Mark, I am researching this stuff because my wife told me to. Probably like every other guy.
I had her discuss what she really wants and it turns out to easier and cheaper maybe than I thought it would be. I talked to her about soft vs hard water because our water lathers just fine. It turns out that she hates the taste of our town water and will settle for an under sink unit that can fix the taste of the water out of the kitchen sink. Of course, that could mean something for both hot and cold lines. What kind of unit do you think will do this for us? We moved from a property that had a very deep well for household use, the water was terrific.
Our current neighborhood will not allow anyone to put in a well for this type of use. Only shallow wells for watering the lawn. Thanks for any help you can give me. You do no want to treat both hot and cold for drinking. Just drink water from the cold side. Steven McIlvaine. Would there be any benefit to adding a chelating conditioner on your cold distribution if you already have a softener on your hot, or would the calcium and magnesium fall out of solution and cause scale when the two mix?
John A Buck. I am building a house in Troy, Missouri. The house will be on well water. What type of a water filtration system and water softening system would work best. Janice Flaherty. We are building a house outside Portland Oregon in the farm area. We will be using a Septic. The water tastes wonderful but leaves a scale that can be chiseled. I am not looking forward to chisel cleaning. Any ideas? Melvin O Kennon. I live in an area where Radium is common.
We also have a very high iron content that will turn your whites orange, Does a salt-free system remove the Radium and the iron? I can't say without a detailed water analysis. We have one on our site. Just enter Lab Water Test in our search boxc. I dont really have any major issues so far knock on wood except some light spotting on glass wear but want to be proactive to keep my copper piping and appliances clean as a new home owner.
Any suggestions would be great! I noticed the limeblaster but looks like I cant just use this as a stand alone system correct? Anthony Spadafora.
Hello Mark, I am Master Plumber of 35 years. The last 10 years I have been installing tankless water heaters, I am a certified Navien service specialist. Navien accepts up to 10 grains hardness without equipment but require a annual acid cleaning of the exchanger. They now will allow up to 75 Grains of hardness if you install their peak flow anti scale filter before the unit, this unit is not a phosphate injector.
Navien is not some fly by night manufacturer, obviously this thing works or they wouldn't sell it. This is not a new product. I know exactly what is in that cartridge. We sold it at one time and the results were not very good. There is no scientific way to prove it works! Obviously, you believe it, so all I can say is "watch and learn. Gaylon Mccorkle. I am on a tight budget. I would like a saltless softener or conditioner which ever is best. I don't want to be spending a lot of money on filters.
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