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Pentek HT-10 High Temperature Water Filter The HT-10 high temperature housing.
Now obviously a high temperature housing is designed to be used on the hot water lines,
and this system can handle temperatures in excess of 160 degrees Fahrenheit. So extremely
hot water, most residential applications won’t have water any hotter than 140 degrees, so
well beyond that capacity. You’re going to need high temperature filters
to go inside of this and so there are some that are designed for that, for example this
WP5 is good to 165 degrees Fahrenheit. This is a 5 micron polypropylene string wound sediment
cartridge, and if you’re looking for taste and odor improvement, an example would be
the EPM-10, which is good to 180 degrees Fahrenheit. This is a 10 micron carbon block. And of course
this is an industry standard size housing that receives the 10 inch long by 2 ½ inch
in diameter cartridges. Now it does use a unique O-ring, let’s see
if I can get it to pop out here. There we go. This is not your typical O-ring material;
it’s a special high temperature O-ring made from #241 FDA grade silicone. Use the same
lubricant, the food grade silicone grease but different O-ring if you go to replace
it, it’s not your standard O-ring. It has ¾ inch female pipe thread inlet and
outlet and there are lots of applications that you might use this. One method for use
is to filter boiler water, if you’re getting a build-up of scale, you can capture some
of that scale in a high temperature housing like this. Also, those high temperature hot
water heaters, the kind that sit outside and you burn wood or garbage in them and it pumps
the water into pipes that go into the home. In some cases the water in those systems needs
to be filtered and you need a high temperature system like this, and there are other applications.
If you’re unable to use a water softener to deal with your scale problem, sometimes
you’ll get scale particulate that comes out of your hot water heater and it ends up
clogging the screens on your faucets and your shower head, you could install a filter housing
like this after, post water heater, so you can capture that precipitant that comes out
of the water from the hot water heater. So a number of ways it can be used, but don’t
try and use a regular housing on a high temperature water line, because it will destroy the housing
in short order, and possibly burst and flood your home, so you don’t want that.
This is the HT-10.