Hi guys,


I've been using the 3M AP902 water filter for about a year already without any issue.

However I heard some said the cartridge need to be changed once every year, some say once every 2 year. How do I check/know when it is ready to be changed?

Hi Zheilwane,


Thanks for the response, I believe water quality is not bad, and I'm using it as outdoor filter like you said, and have Espring as direct drinking filter.

But how do I know when I actually need to change the cartridge of the 3M AP902?
Do I need to wait until it clogged up? Because there's no indicator at all, if I open up the cartridge, would I be able to detect if it's dirty enough to be changed?

Thanks for the information Zheilwane, mostly appreciated.

Just think to contribute a bit, since I got a lot of information from this thread last year when I wanted to have water filter as well.

For the common people like us, who doesn't have any expertise in this field, I'm completely blank on water filter. That's why I tried to search it here in this forum to look for some information.

How do we know if a water quality is good? Unless you have the device to test it, how do you know if your water quality is good? Leave out the foul smell or the color of the water, a crystal clear water not necessary means good quality of water.

The effect of bad water quality will probably took effect in your body in a long run, so by using it for 1-2 years doesn't mean that you are using the correct water filter.

I was planning to have a direct water to drink from POU, and I did ask few questions back in this thread last year. The reason is for efficiency, no need to cook the water, safe a lot of time, also at that time I just have a son about 1.5 year old, of course I want nothing but the best for him.
And I got an answer also from this thread, go for a NSF certified water filter, so I try to research a bit about NSF, and up until then when I bought the water filter, Amway E-spring was the complete NSF certified water filter (NSF 42, 53 & 55). However concerning the water quality from Syabas, I also added another POE water filter 3M AP902, which also is NSF 42, just to ease up the filtration of the E-Spring.

And I got what I wanted, I could drink directly from the faucet, if you ask me if my water quality is good enough to drink? I also can't answer the question, but I have an ease of mind just basing on the NSF certified water filter I have. My family have been drinking the water since we move in until now.

Another thing I like about Espring is because they have an indicator of when you need to change the filter. Unlike the 3M AP902 I have, I don't know when is the best time to change it, and it's still working good, meaning not clogging, or causing the water pressure to be smaller than before.

By the way, I'm not Amway distributor/agent, I'm only a common water filter user, sharing what I've been using base on own experience.

Hi Zheilwane,

I pmed you but no reply, I guess your inbox is fulled or my pm didn't get through.
Do you still sell the 3M AP910r cartridge? How much if you do?
Please pm me back.


Thanks

I'm not sure about all these lab reports or anything, but in general, how many percentage of our society actually aware of this NSF or the quality of water. As far as I know, older generation still boiled their drinking water.
Younger generation, well mostly they don't do any research and just buy/choose based on price/advertisement.

I believe everything will be depending on what is the purpose of the water filter itself, I will definitely use FD after going through all those back reading from previous pages. Price wise and quality wise, I don't see anybody is competing or disagree. I'm using the Espring now, I just want to wait until the next filter change, then I will stop using it and change to FD.


Hestati, do you have any POE filtration system? I'm using the the 3M AP902 at the moment.

Whatever guide you provide, if it's based on table of comparison, I'm not sure that is convincing enough. I myself don't know anything about water quality, I'm just blindly trusting the NSF labels.

Let's take for example, your Fresca is not certified by NSF, but the filters inside are from NSF certified brands. However you can't stated blatantly that the Fresca is NSF certified water filter.

Older generation simple thinking, whatever you filter with your water, still boil to drink it, whether the water is filtered or not. As long as the water doesn't smell, boil is enough.

I don't know, but I think if there is a device to simply test the water quality of pre-filter vs filtered water vs any competitive brands of water filters, that would make things clear and easy to make any decision.
But is there any device to do that?

If there is a device that could test a water quality, you don't need to do any guide, just simply show them the test result on the spot.

Exactly my point, you can't state that Fresca is NSF certified, but all the components are.


All will be back to the purpose of the water filter, what is the main purpose, if it is only to filter the sediment or rust from the water source, then I believe the sediment filter on the POE is enough.


For me, the main purpose is, I want to drink straight from the tap, and my setup is having 3M AP902 as POE and Espring as POU. This is the only way I can skip the boiling and confident enough to drink from the Espring faucet directly. This is the best setup out there available from 3-4 years ago, because I also learn this from this exact thread 4 years ago.

If you ask me, is this actually safe, I don't know, I blindly trust the NSF certified 3M AP902 and Espring. However I never had my water tested, whether it is safe to drink or not, is there anyway to test the quality of the water coming out from the Espring faucet?

And you could also compare the quality of the water of the direct boiling, I believe this will be a very convincing way to prove that water filter is indeed important and which water filter is actually doing what they are supposed to do.