GE GNUT05Z01 User Manual

GE Appliances

Faucet & Base

Owner’s Manual

GNUT05Z01 GNUV10Z01 GNUL30Z01

Water Filtration System

GE Answer Center®800.626.2000

Part No. 215C1002P006–1 Pub. No. 49-58047178896

Congratulations! You Are Now Part of the GE Family.

Welcome to the GE family. We’re proud of our quality products and we are committed to providing dependable service. You’ll see it in this easy-to-use Owner’s Manual and you’ll hear it in the friendly voices of our customer service department.

Best of all, you’ll experience these values each time you use the water system. That’s important, because your system will be part of your family for many years. And we hope you will be part of ours for a long time to come.

We thank you for buying GE. We appreciate your purchase, and hope you will continue to rely on us whenever you need quality appliances for your home.

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Proof of the original purchase date is needed to obtain service under the warranty.

Write the model and serial numbers here.

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Inside you will find many helpful hints on how to use and maintain your water system properly. Just a little preventive care on your part can save you a great deal of time and money over the life of your system.

Read this Manual

Ask any GEappliance owner and they will tell you we stand behind our products with unmatched quality service. However, did you know that most questions result from simple problems that you can easily fix yourself in just a few minutes? This Owner’s Manual can tell you how.

You’ll find many answers to common problems here. If you review our chart of Troubleshooting Tips first, you may not need to call for service at all.

Review the Section on Troubleshooting Tips

If you do need service, you can relax knowing help is only a phone call away. A list of toll-free customer service numbers is included in the back section. Or you can always call the GE Answer Center

® at

800.626.2000, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

If You Need Service

Safety Information . . . . . . . . .4

Specification Guidelines . . . .5

Operating Instructions

Using the System . . . . . . . . . . . .6

Filter Cartridge

Replacement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

Troubleshooting Tips

Before You

Call For Service . . . . . . . . . . . .10

Customer Service

Warranty Information . . . . . . .15

Service Telephone Numbers . .Back Cover

IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION. READ ALL INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE USING.

WARNING!

For your safety, the information in this manual must be

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followed to minimize the risk of property damage or personal injury.

SAFETY PRECAUTIONS

■Check with your local public

works department for plumbing codes. You must follow these guidelines as you install the water filtration system.

Use the water filtration system

■

on a potable, safe-to-drink,

COLD

home The filter cartridges will not purify the water, or make it safe to drink.

water supply only.

WARNING:

water that is microbiologically unsafe, or of unknown quality, without adequate disinfection before or after the system, such as single-user wells, or other non-public water systems not regulated by federal or state health and safety requirements.

Do not

use with

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Do not

use on a hot water

supply (100

°F. max.)

PROPER INSTALLATION

This water filtration system must be properly installed and located in accordance with the Installation Instructions before it is used. If you did not receive Installation Instructions, you can receive one by calling us toll-free at the GE Answer Center

■

Install or store where it will not

be exposed to temperatures below freezing or exposed to any type of weather. Water freezing in the system will break it. Do not attempt to treat water over 100°F.

WARNING:

unused and packaging material after installation.

Discard all

800.626.2000.

Your water filtration system

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will withstand up to 125 pounds per square inch (psi) water pressure. If your house water supply pressure is higher than 100 psi, install a pressure reducing valve before installing the water filtration system.

SPECIFICATION GUIDELINES.

About the Water Filtration System

Many bad tastes and/or odors are removed from water using activated carbon filter cartridges. They are most often used to remove a chlorine taste and

They can also reduce other undesirable elements from drinking water

smell. supplies, such as organic chemical contaminants and lead.

NOTE:

Small amounts of hydrogen sulfide (noticeable as “rotten egg” odor) may be reduced by taste and odor filters for a short time, but the carbon media is quickly exhausted. Other water conditioning equipment is usually required for the continuous treatment of hydrogen sulfide.

The GE water filtration system uses two filter cartridges.

Filter I

FXUS—

a sediment/taste and odor filter cartridge

•Reduces unpleasant tastes, odors, dirt, rust and sediments

•Reduces 95% chlorine for 1500 gallons of water

•20 micron, activated carbon

Filter II (Options)

FXUT

•Reduces unpleasant tastes and odors

•Reduces 99% chlorine for 3000 gallons of water

•20 micron, granular activated carbon

—a deluxe taste and odor filter cartridge

FXUV—

•Reduces certain organic chemical contaminants like pesticides and herbicides

•Reduces 95% chemical contaminant for 500 gallons of water

•Reduces 99% chlorine for 500 gallons of water

•20 micron, granular activated carbon

FXUL—

•Reduces 90% lead for 1000 gallons of water

•Reduces 99% chlorine for 1000 gallons of water

•10–20 micron, carbon block

Maximum Supply Water Pressure — 125 pounds per square inch (psi) Minimum - Maximum Supply Water Temperature — 40–100

Inlet - Outlet — 3/8″ NPT, fittings and tubing included Maximum Filtered Water Flow — 0.6 gpm

Depending on the treatment needed for a specific water supply, the water filtration

system can be customized using any combination of the preceding filter cartridges.

an organic chemical contaminants filter cartridge

a lead filter cartridge

°F.

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