WaterChef® C7000 Premium Countertop Water Filtration System with Intelligent Monitor (Black)

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Product Feature

• Superior Performance & Taste
• Powerful Big Block™ Filtration Technology (Filter more. Spend less.)
• Huge 1,000 GALLON Rated Capacity! (For most households, that's just ONE cartridge per year!)
• Tested & Certified by NSF International (NSF/ANSI Standards 42 & 53)
• Intelligent Monitor™ (No more cartridge replacement guesswork!)
• Unsurpassed Contaminant Reduction for a Broad Range of Common Tap Water Contaminants
• Beneficial Minerals (such as Calcium, Magnesium and Potassium) Remain in the Water
• Stylish, Space-Saving Countertop Design (Ideal for homes, offices, dorms, cabins & RVs.)
• Surgical Stainless Steel and High Impact ABS Housing (Beauty and Durability!)
• Available in: White/Stainless or Black/Stainless
• Clever 2-Way Diverter Valve (Instantly choose between freshly filtered or ordinary tap water.)
• Easily Installs to Your Faucet in Minutes (No tools needed!)
• Eco-Smart and BPA Free
• Includes Cartridge (pre-installed) & Battery for Intelligent Monitor™
• LIFETIME Limited Warranty! (Built to last.)
• 60-Day Money-Back Guarantee
• Made in the USA

Product Description

Discover the Difference
WaterChef's C7000 Premium Countertop Water Filter System is the smarter way to reduce a broad range of tap water contaminants, eliminate the waste and expense of plastic bottles and small filter cartridges, and enjoy cleaner, healthier, great tasting water for drinking and cooking. This stylish, space-saving system connects directly to your faucet (without tools) in just minutes! Feel good providing premium quality water for your family, experiencing greater savings and convenience, and reducing your impact on the planet.

Powerful Big Block Filtration - Filter More. Spend Less.
Exclusive Big Block Filtration technology maximizes the reduction of a broad range of common tap water contaminants (including Chlorine, Chloramine, Lead, Benzene, Cysts, Trihalomethanes, VOCs & MTBE) and delivers up to 1,000 GALLONS per cartridge! For most households that means ONE cartridge per year! (Compare that to the small cartridges found in pitcher filters, faucet filters and refrigerator filters that require as many as 25 replacements per year!) And, fewer cartridges means less waste too!

Intelligent Monitor
Intelligent Monitoring takes the guesswork out of cartridge replacement. Unlike other systems with simple time-based monitors, WaterChef monitors actual usage, so you will never discard a cartridge prematurely, or continue using one that has exceeded its capacity again!

NSF Certified - Performance You Can Trust.
Take comfort in knowing that all WaterChef systems are Tested & Certified by NSF International, the water industry's leading authority. No other independent testing program requires the strict compliance standards imposed by NSF. Credibility is what NSF Certification is all about.

LIFETIME Limited Warranty!
Made in the USA and built to last. We back it up with a LIFETIME Limited Warranty, one of the longest, most comprehensive warranties in the industry!

WaterChef® C7000 Premium Countertop Water Filtration System with Intelligent Monitor (Black) Review

The WaterChef C7000 is an excellent water filter. I will go in order from packaging to installation. We obtained ours just last night, so it has been in use for under 24 hours as of this review. My water is coming from the Red River and Red Lake River in the upper Midwest. So, it is pretty gross, especially since it travels through agricultural land before it arrives at the treatment plant. We have had multiple instances where the water tastes like fish during flooding season as well. So, in short, the water is nasty here. In the past, we owned multiple Pur, Brita, and DuPont brand filters. Both of us were so fed up with poor build quality, expense, crappy water filtration, and how dirty the units became. After much research, the WaterChef C7000 seemed to be the best frugal choice for us. We considered more expensive filters, but we aren't using well water, so it wasn't worth the expense.

Packaging and documentation:

1. Packaged with bubble wrap inside a white box.

2. Comes, as described, with a water filter pre-installed. It also includes the hose, diverter valve, aerator, battery (in tray), three different adapters for various faucet types, the hose, instruction manual, NSF certification, and warranty information.

3. If the adapters won't work on your faucet, they are willing to send you a custom one based on your aerator's threading.

4. They will send a new battery with the purchase of a new filter (new filters are around $50). So the battery is designed to last all year. They mention not removing it between filter changes because it will reset and/or lose data. The intelligent monitor operates off a gallons consumed meter.

5. They say the filter is rated to 1000 gallons. However, if you read the independent NSF testing, they rated it to 800 gallons. That is still a very good rating. To put it in perspective: 800 gallons is 12,800 cups of water. For one person that is 1600 days or four years and four months of water at eight cups per day. For a family of four, at eight cups per person/per day, that is 400 days of water. So even a family of four would be able to utilize a single cartridge per year. The catch here is, it is recommended to replace the filter annually. So it is in your best interest to utilize the filter as much as possible throughout the year. It goes without saying that the filter's longevity depends on your water quality as well.

6. The instruction set is very clear and easy to understand.

Initial thoughts on build quality and design:

1. The interior of it is plastic with the exterior shell being stainless steel, with a combination of plastic fittings. Overall, I find the build quality very good.

2. The hose is a heavier duty flexible plastic. I am not concerned with its quality.

3. The diverter valve is made of metal. It has some interesting, well thought out, features as well.

a. It has a high quality o-ring in place to make a tight seal on the faucet head

b. The threading to mount it on the faucet rotates independently of the rest of the diverter. This helps prevent unthreading when the diverter is being moved around.

I. I did find the diverter and the threading moved together at times. Not sure if that is because it is new or not. I would consider installing locktite or plumbers tape.

c. The included aerator un-threads so you may install your own aerator. I found this was consumer friendly and well designed.

d. The switch to divert the water is spring loaded. This a good feature.

I. Once you make sure the water is cold, pull the diverter pin (switch).

II. It is under pressure, so it stays in place when the water is activated.

III. Unlike cheaper faucet based water filters, you DO NOT have to reset the switch when you turn off the water. Just turn off the water and the pressure loss will reset it.

i. This is a very nice advantage. It prevents you from forgetting to reset it and turning on hot water later, damaging the filter.

ii. At the same time. If there is not enough pressure (as in a thin stream), the switch won't stay in place and will reset. You could just hold it in place too.

4. As you can see in the pictures, the water is one way: faucet to filter. This is an advantage over some other brands of similar setup that reroute the water back to the faucet head. That advantage is long term cleanliness of the spout for the filtered water. History has shown me that the traditional faucet mount water filters and their spouts will get very dirty from being so close to food preparation and dish washing. On top of that, I found they are difficult to clean thoroughly. So the WaterChef C7000 has a major advantage here.

5. I did my research across these counter-top style filters and found that this is the only one (that advertises) having .5 sub-micron filtering. The only thing I found better was a gravity fed system that was supposedly .3 microns but not certified in any way. Many of the other faucet based counter top filters seemed to be 1 Micron based. Given how nasty the water is in my area/building, I am much more comfortable with this setup.

Installation:

1. Easy. You screw the diverter on the faucet, and plug the other end of the hose into the hole on the bottom of the unit. Then, all you have to do is run cold water through it for 15 minutes to flush the cartridge and it is ready to use. Very simple.

Water Quality and Use:

1. The water tastes amazing. In the past, I had to put my water through two separate (cheaper) filtration systems to get it to taste this fresh and clean.

2. It fills a cup and a half of water in around 10 seconds. I haven't timed it exactly, but that is pretty close.

3. Since I have the spout over the counter, I do need to place a towel underneath it. Reason being, when you turn off the water it does have some residual pressure that allows a thin stream of water to continue to flow for a few seconds. Then it will drip slightly for a few more seconds. Having the towel is nice to absorb those residual drips. I am sure physics are the culprit here over a design flaw. The only thing I can think of to stop that problem would be to install a one way, spring loaded ball valve in the spout stream that would close when the water pressure drops. However, something tells me simplicity rules in this case, given how well engineered this product is.

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