Vortopt Spin Down Sediment Filter, Automatic Backwash Whole House Sediment Water Filter for Well Water, 40 Micron Flushable Prefilter Filtration, Q2

I couldn't find anywhere in the item description of what normal plumbing pipe sizes it accepts. I read 2 or 3 reviews that said said it came with 1" male pipe fittings. They were right but in a wrong way. The 1" fittings on the filter are straight threads for hydraulic uses, which means they can't be connected to "regular " house plumbing pipe with tapered threads. The seller should state that this filter can only be used with 3/4" pipe. Edit: Seller contacted me and apologized for the 3/4" sizing. You could buy a fitting to adapt from 1" metric to 1" tapered threads but the adapters cost more than the filter.

I have had a 30 micron Rainfresh water filter installed for many years and thought I would install the spin down filter before the original filter just to help it out. It was very easy to install and works great so far. The blowdown on the bottom section works great. You just turn the bottom section half to three quarters of a turn clockwise and flush out the bottom section, which works great. I have only done this one time so far. I will send another review in a few months after I see what difference it has made with the lasting of the 30 micron filter. Definitely a nice little filter.

Has anyone been able to use the 1' threads on this successfully? The threads are too short for shark bite or other connectors, so they don't bottom out for a tight fit. The supplied fittings for the 3/4" thread work fine and I used an adapter with a female ID of 3/4 and a male 1" that the shark bite could use. good quality pipe dope and it installed without any leaks or issues. Technically the 3/4 should be fine for my well pressure, but I would have preferred to keep it 1" and it doesn't seem to have affected the water pressure that I can notice, but I can't verify that. It definitely stops the sand and silt from clogging my main water filter, so well worth the money. I really like this and it works flawlessly and seems to be very good quality. The only issue I have is that the 1" fittings are way too short for anything there than their included 3/4 adapters, so this should not claim to have 1" connections since you can't use them. All of the other similar spin down filters also have the same short male thread issue. Additional comments: This works great. We had a day where the power kept coming on and off and the well pump had a lot of sediment. I had to flush it several times, but it did catch the sediment. The only downside is that it does slightly decrease the water pressure from the well tank. This is most noticeable taking showers. I removed the screen just to see if the issue was the 1” to 3/4” change (which I doubted) or the filter itself. Water pressure increased noticeably. I’ve been concerned about this for spin filters in general and I think running two in parallel will collect any silt and will increase the pressure. Two 40 microns in parallel should act more like 80 microns assuming that the pressure drop is linear, so it may be more like 60 or 70, but in any case should get the pressure back up to what it was just running through the next filter stage.

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Works exactly like it says, just have to clear out dirt once a week by turning on the flush for a few seconds. Brilliant and saves on my dirt filter