Keith Hughes wrote in news:450f607a$0$10296
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Uhmmm...if you use the carbon before the still, they are not there to
carryover are they? With the added benefit of chlorine removal, which
is plus for life of stainless steel (assuming you're not trying to
distill seawater, that is).



The trouble with prefilters is capacity. Lots of stuff the distiller is
great at removing, like chlorine and the other additives the government
bureaucrats are trying to poison our children with, like flourine, will
soon consume your activated carbon filter. The filter on the distilled
water side lasts for months without losing effectiveness because there is
so little pollutants consuming the carbon. Most of the pollutants the
prefilter would be consumed by, I simply flush out of the boiler for the
next load.

My reference to "beast" is a comparison rating of how much kitchen floor
space it consumes...more than my water cooler. Just something else to
walk around. Over the years, I've found it much better to use the little
countertop unit, one gallon at a time. I punch the START button as I'm
on my way to bed and let it warm the house at night, of course not in the
South Carolina summer when the house overwarms itself. Garage benches
make wonderful distiller locations out of the air conditioner zones. In
winter, the beast will heat my whole place as long as you leave it
running, conserving energy. It also loses much more steam than the
countertop units do, so it makes the house have that warm, humid feeling.



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