Opus advantage Installation Instructions Manual
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OPUS Healthy
Water Systems
Available at Aviva
1224 St. James St.
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Canada R3H 0L1
Phone:
204.947.6789
Fax:
204.947.6786
www.opus.net
water@aviva.ca
ADVANTAGE
Advantage is a point-of-use drinking water system that produces great tasting water that is
free of fluoride, chlorine, lead, heavy metals, MTBE, VOCs and contaminants, while
maintaining pH (alkalinity) and dissolved minerals. The system features dual activated carbon
(granulated and advanced powdered carbon), 3 pounds of KDF media, bone char fluoride
filtration, and .5 micron microfiltration technology that removes 99.5% of mercury, lead,
giardia, cryptosporidium, entamoeba, and toxoplasma cysts to ensure contaminant-free water.
Advantage uses four advanced filtration components to provide six filtration stages, using
three 10" vertical filters and one horizontally mounted 5 micron sediment inline filter.
Tubing, designer faucet, a John Guest quick connect for the faucet and a John Guest ball
valve to allow easy water shut off for filter flushing and future filter changes are all included.
Included Components:
1. Triple filter wall mount housing that can be installed under a sink or in a basement with a
5 micron sediment filter horizontally mounted on the frame.
2. Inline horizontally mounted 5 micron sediment filter. (Stage 1)
3. 10" bone char fluoride adsorption filter. (Stage 2)
4. 10" 3 lb KDF media / 1 lb granulated activated carbon filter. (Stage 3 & 4)
5. 10" .5 micron carbon microfiltration filter that removes MTBE, VOCs and chlorine, with
99.5% removal of lead and mercury. (Stage 5 & 6)
6. Brushed nickel lead-free ceramic disk designer faucet with normal sink installation
components, including a John Guest quick connect that is screwed onto the end of the
faucet for fast and easy connection of the blue tubing from the output of the system.
7. Quick connects throughout for all ¼" tubing connections, including on the beautiful
brushed nickel ceramic disk designer faucet.
8. Two 5 foot lengths of flexible LLDPE ¼" BPA free tubing – one blue, and one red. Red
is used to connect to the cold water source and to the John Guest ball valve (shut-off valve)
installed in the input of the 5 micron horizontally mounted inline sediment filter. The blue
tubing is connected to the output on the right side of the system and to the supplied John
Guest quick connect that is screwed onto the bottom of the supplied faucet.
9. John Guest ball valve shut-off valve, to make it easy to shut off water to the system for
initial filter flushing and future filter changes, connected to the input of the horizontally
mounted 5 micron sediment filter.
10. Filter Wrench, to enable easy opening of the filter housings (the three vertical
components).
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FILTRATION UNIT DESCRIPTION:
Stage 1 – Horizontally Mounted 5 Micron Sediment Filter. This is an inline plastic filter
horizontally mounted on the top of the system with plastic clips. Under normal use, this filter should
last a year; however, depending on the quantity of water purified and the level of sediment in your
water, it may require changing more often. Replace this filter if the water pressure drops to an
unacceptable level, but at minimum it must be changed annually.
This filter is labeled Stage 1 – 5 Micron Sediment Filter.
Stage 2 – Bone Char Fluoride Filter. This is the left vertical stage of the three vertically mounted
filters. This filter is specifically designed to remove fluoride. Replace this filter annually.
The metal frame above this filter is labeled Stage 2 – Bone Char Fluoride Filter.
Stage 3 & 4 – 3 lb KDF Media / 1 lb GAC. This is the middle, or centre vertical stage of the unit.
This filter consists of two components (two stages), including the equivalent of 3 pounds of KDF
media and 1 pound granulated activated carbon (GAC). KDF media is a copper-zinc formulation
that combines electrochemical and catalytic technology to remove chlorine, lead, mercury, iron,
aluminum, arsenic, chromium, copper, manganese, nickel, chloroform, trichloroethane, lindane,
nitrates, nitrites and hydrogen sulfide from water. KDF media has a mild antibacterial, algaecitic, and
fungicitic effect and may reduce the accumulation of lime scale. Replace this filter annually.
The metal frame above this filter is labeled STAGE 3 & 4 – 3 lb KDF/GAC.
Stage 5 & 6 – .5 Micron MTBE/VOC/lead/mercury microfilter. This is the right vertical stage
of the unit, and consists of a .5 micron carbon microfiltration filter with multiple functions
described below. Replace this filter annually.
Traps carbon and KDF media particles from the KDF/GAC filter in stage 3 & 4, and bone
char particles from the stage 2 fluoride filter. (Stage 5)
Removes chlorine, odors, dissolved and particulate lead, mercury (99.5% removal rate for
lead and mercury), cysts, giardia, cryptosporidium, entamoeba and toxoplasma cysts. A
unique feature of this filter is the filtration of MTBE and VOCs – contaminants that very
few filtration systems can remove. (Stage 6)
The metal frame above this filter is labeled Stage 5 & 6 – .5 Micron MTBE/VOC Filter.
NOTE ABOUT QUICK CONNECTS:
All OPUS water purification systems utilize quick connects for all tubing connections, including the
connection to the John Guest ball valve (shutoff valve), faucet (there is a small gray piece with the quick
connect supplied with the faucet) and input and output of the water filtration system. The quick connect
allows easy insertion and removal of ¼" tubing. To remove the tubing, you must hold in the “ring” or collar
that is on the outside of the tubing (the ring or collar surrounds the tubing and is part of the quick connect).
When you hold in the ring (sometimes you need a flathead screwdriver, but usually your finger will do) the
tubing will easily slide out. If you try to pull out the tubing without holding in the ring, you can damage the
quick connect fitting.
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