Water purifier purchase to avoid the pit guide, don't spend more money!

Water purifier purchase to avoid the pit guide, don't spend more money!

Recently, when visiting friends and relatives, found a phenomenon: home installed water purifier is more and more people, and even some of my friends' kitchens are fast becoming a “water purifier museum”, a variety of brands, models should be complete. As a result of chatting a circle found that many people actually do not know what they buy water purifier in the end is worth the price, some configurations simply do not have much use, but paid a bunch of IQ tax.
So today this article is to help you fish dry goods! Selection of water purifiers, non-must understand what features are really useful, which is the business blown sky-high but no practical significance of the chicken ribs configuration. After reading you will be able to change the “old driver water purification”, no longer be sales fooled around!

What is the role of a good water purifier? We buy a water purifier, nothing more than to drink clean and safe water. Then a good water purifier in function at least to meet the following points:
-Remove impurities: tap water may be mixed with some sediment, rust and other particles, these small things visible to the naked eye the most basic filter can handle.
-Filter heavy metals and chemical residues: this is more advanced, such as lead, mercury and other heavy metals, as well as pesticide residues and disinfectants (like residual chlorine), these things not only affect the taste, but also damage to health.
-Enhance the taste: Sometimes we feel strange when we drink tap water, the taste may come from disinfectants or some minerals. If the filtration is done properly, it will be smoother in the mouth.

Here comes the list of features! What are the must-have concerns?
There are all kinds of water purifiers on the market nowadays, and all kinds of promos dazzle people. But in fact, when we are selecting, we don't need to pursue all the functions, but focus on a few big items that are really practical and critical.

1. Filter type determines the effect of the filter is equivalent to the brain of the water purifier, it is responsible for filtering out the dirt. At present, the mainstream cartridge is mainly divided into several types:
-PP cotton filter: responsible for blocking large particles of impurities, such as sediment, rust, which is considered the most basic layer.
-Activated carbon cartridge: it is particularly effective against odors and disinfectants, and can improve the taste. Without this, you always feel a strange taste when you drink out.
-Reverse osmosis membrane (RO membrane): this is the high-end goods, can filter out most of the heavy metals and microorganisms, is the first choice for family drinking level. However, the disadvantage is that the pure water is slow, and need to be supported by electricity.
If the budget is limited, you can choose the model with RO membrane + activated carbon combination, which is currently more classic and practical set of programs.

2. How much wastewater ratio is reasonable?
Many people buy back only to find that, with the use of a lot of water waste, which is also a test of your place. The so-called wastewater ratio, that is, the production of pure drinking water when the production of how much waste undrinkable dirty waste liquid. For example, 1:3 means that for 1 cup of good pure drinking water, 3 cups of waste dirty liquid will be wasted. If you look at it this way, of course, the lower the ratio, the better! Here to focus on the mainstream products, it is best to choose 1:1 or 1:2 or so waste water ratio, more than this number is recommended to reconsider the consideration, or run up a real heartache!

3. whether with smart tips?
Don't underestimate this detail, some smart machines can tell you when to change the cartridge through the screen or cell phone APP, as well as the current operating status of the device. This is simply too thoughtful for busy people, otherwise time forgets to maintain, directly let the whole machine strike, can not save a bit of heartache!

Don't pay the IQ tax! You can skip these ribbed features!
After talking about the essential features, let's talk about the gimmicky parts that look advanced but don't really have much practical value and are just used by businessmen to raise the price. If you see these words, you must be vigilant !
1. “Super thousand times the mineral retention technology” does not sound very impressive? But in fact, our daily life, do not need to drink a lot of minerals through the “super good food” to supplement the nutrients. On the one hand, the human body is more suitable for absorbing minerals from food; on the other hand, if the content is too high, but may cause a burden. So this kind of propaganda should not be blindly superstitious, instead of focusing on a clean drink every cup of fresh and pollution-free spring.
2. “Double UV sterilization lamp design”
UV lamps can indeed play a sterilization effect, but the question arises - the average household drinking scene really need to be so exaggerated? In most cases, as long as the RO membrane treatment has been safe and reliable enough, and then add UV lamps seem a little over-designed. Of course, if your home is located in a remote area, the water source is particularly poor, but city dwellers can skip this item.

3. “Unlimited storage capacity”
This is really a typical set of fooling people. The average household daily use is very limited, most of the time even only a few liters of storage bucket is more than enough. So those big models boasting dozens or even hundreds of liters of huge storage capacity are actually not really useful at all, taking up space and consuming power resources.

Here's a simple checklist for you, so you can get started as soon as you see what you want!
In order to facilitate your quick decision-making, Susan specially summarized a “must-see shopping list”, the future shopping mall or brush e-commerce platform, against these points will be right:
☑ Must have RO membrane (reverse osmosis technology).
☑ Wastewater ratio control in a reasonable range (preferably ≤ 1:2)
☑ Filter is easy to remove and replace and the cost is moderate
☑ With basic intelligent prompts function can be  
As for those various fancy slogan, such as what “luxury gold-plated shell” “star design models”, can completely ignore, because they have nothing to do with the actual performance!
The last point of reminder, small details can not be ignored
Although today we are talking about the purchase of skills, but after buying back how to use correctly is equally important. Some people directly ignore the instructions for convenience, such as lazy to change the filter on schedule, do not regularly check the equipment, which can be a hidden danger ah! So must remember two words: “according to the rules of operation”, “diligent maintenance and maintenance”. This will ensure long-term health, safety and peace of mind to drink a good quality drinking level ~!
Written here, I hope that this article can become your “avoiding the pit of treasure”. After all, who's money is not wind-blown Well, rather than blindly follow the wind to burn money, as well as know a little knowledge to make themselves savvy consumers. If you find the content helpful, you are welcome to share it with your buddies who are struggling to buy what model!