What is the actual filter capacity in microns? Just saying "sub-micron" is not adequate information.
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Thank you for contacting AquaRain Support. Water conditions can be of great concern, especially when traveling to developing countries and the AquaRain has been designed specifically for this reason. Since bacteria vary greatly in size, porosity alone will not define the efficacy of a filters performance. The internal pore structure has a great deal of influence on ceramic filter performance. Testing with live organisms is the best determinate of performance. Our filters have been tested using the EPA protocols in a unique way. Our ceramic test articles were abraded down to 10% below their measured end-of-life and exposed to contaminated water before being sent in to the laboratory for testing. This was done to confirm that our ceramic filters were fully effective and safe to use until they reach their measurable end-of-life. Normal testing protocols only use brand-new, hand selected articles for testing and are therefore unreliable where the water quality is of concern. We went further and tested our filters with Brevundimonas diminuta, a very small bacteria used for testing in the health industry. We met EPA purifier standards even when using this much smaller test organism. Because of our real world testing results with this live organism, we realistically rate our ceramic pore size at .2 micron absolute. We have a great deal of information on our website especially, under the "testing" tab. There you will find a downloadable PDF Testing Summary Sheet for our ceramics. I hope this has answered your questions, please write again or contact us directly should you have any further questions. Kind Regards, AquaRain, Inc.
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The filter that I have is about 1/8" thick, maybe a little more. It is less than 1/4".
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Depends on the lens attached to the camera. If you are looking at the end you would attach the filter to, you should see a zero with a slash through it followed or preceded by the size in millimeters.
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The lens should indicate what filter diameter it uses. Look for a symbol like an O with a slash through it, which will be followed by a number. That number is the filter size in mm.
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More microns means larger mesh.http://www.industrialspec.com/downloads/MeshMicronSizes.pdf
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Berkey doesn't publish micron ratings as they're a little misleading. From their website, if a filter traps of 0.2 micron particles then it's acceptable - even if the other 10% lets in 1.0 micron particles - to call it a 0.2 micron filter. But if you read the test results on their website, their filters are capable of filtering 99.999% of viruses and 99.9999% of bacteria. That's better than almost any filter out there. In fact, you test the filter by adding a teaspoon of red food coloring to a gallon of water and running it through the filter. I can vouch for the fact that in mine, the water comes out crystal clear. Berkey doesn't publish micron ratings as they're a little misleading. From their website, if a filter traps of 0.2 micron particles then it's acceptable - even if the other 10% lets in 1.0 micron particles - to call it a 0.2 micron filter. But if you read the test results on their website, their filters are capable of filtering 99.999% of viruses and 99.9999% of bacteria. That's better than almost any filter out there. In fact, you test the filter by adding a teaspoon of red food coloring to a gallon of water and running it through the filter. I can vouch for the fact that in mine, the... » Read More Berkey doesn't publish micron ratings as they're a little misleading. From their website, if a filter traps of 0.2 micron particles then it's acceptable - even if the other 10% lets in 1.0 micron particles - to call it a 0.2 micron filter. But if you read the test results on their website, their filters are capable of filtering 99.999% of viruses and 99.9999% of bacteria. That's better than almost any filter out there. In fact, you test the filter by adding a teaspoon of red food coloring to a gallon of water and running it through the filter. I can vouch for the fact that in mine, the water comes out crystal clear. « Show Less
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I'm not sure, we have the big blue filter, it has 3 housings, one is micron, another husk, and a sediment. I bought it from Amazon, look at the web site for that filter and check out the sizing.
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The cloth bag at the top is the filter and the bottom one is the collector bag. I don't know the micron size but it lets very little dust out of the system. I also have an air filter that turn over air in shop 8 times per hour. I do not think there are any filter options on the shop fox or on any other brand.
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Thes will take any standard size cartridge filters with any micron rating, i usually get mine at the big box hardware stores, amazon also carries a wide variety
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Yes this will and it is a better filter, I have tried the other styles and they always let stuff though and clog pretty quick, these last longer and filter better. Locally I can get the string filter like these that filter down to 5 Microns which I like even better.
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5 micron is the largest size, you can use a 1 micron if you wish. If you use anything larger then 5 micron the "bugs" can hide behind the particles! I use a 5 micron filter.
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I bought this as a gift for my sister-in-law so I'm sorry I can't tell you exactly. I do know that I noticed others had written that not to order the replacement filters that were offered because they're too small and I did see this bin when we gave it to her. The filter/top is much bigger than the one she previously had with her ceramic bin.
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They filter particles as low as 4-5 microns. When I was in S. Korea I observed people wearing dust mask and these 3-M mask and filters are 1000 times better. Also the mask fits closer to the face with not gaps/openings.Loyd
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(Note: Micron=Micrometer, a form of measurement) The answer is in the fact that it filters to 0.1 microns, Simple put, since different germs are different sizes it will filter out a large amount of germs yet not even close to all. A more indepth answer is bacteria are usually 2-0.2 microns large(This will filter bacteria) while viruses can be 0.2-0.002 microns(Some viruses are filtered). Fungus spores are 20-4 microns so you shouldn't need to worry about this filtering fungus spores.
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I answered the question about the size of these filters, whether they are 12mm or 16mm off of my memory - bad idea since I have traumatic brain injury. Anyway, I was able to find one. I have neither a mm ruler nor a micrometer but using a ruler then conversion, this is the size that came with my microdermMD machine: (3/8) inch = 9.52500 millimeters hope this is more helpful
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Not sure. I sent these back because they were micros and not standard. Sorry.
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Depends on the environment you are in. You can tell by how full the filters appear. That would be my guess.