The Sprite High Output Shower Filter

Probably you have heard that you are likely to take more chlorine into your body from your shower than from the water you drink. The skin soaks up chlorine readily, and you breathe in much air-borne chlorine in the shower. A good shower filter protects you and adds to the pleasure of showering. Your skin, your hair, and your eyes will feel the difference.

The picture above includes the shower head. We sell the filter only, without the head. See explanation below.

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Shower Filter Prices

Subject to our Volume Discount

Part #	Description	Price
SF001	Sprite High Output Shower Filter. White.	$41
SF002	Sprite High Output Shower Filter. Chrome.	$45
FC500	Replacement Filter Cartridge for High Output (both white and chrome).	$23

We Pay UPS Ground Shipping.
We Pay Shipping on all orders to the Continental US.
Shipping charges to other areas.

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Remember that the shower filters & cartridges above are subject to a generous volume discount.

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Note: We have recently added Sprite’s attractive and very practical “Hand-Held” shower filter to our product line.
For details about this fine, stylish
Sprite Hand-Held Shower Filter.

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We also offer Sprite’s latest model, the Shower Falls. Full details here.

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Questions? Call or email us at
940 382 3814 or pwp@pwgazette.com

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Shower filter technology is a challenge. Filter carbon, which is the hands-down champion at chlorine removal, has limited effectiveness in shower filters, where a small amount of the filtering agent is required to handle a large amount of water quickly. Hot water adds another challenge for carbon.

Because of these problems, most shower filter makers rely on a metallic medium called KDF. Shower filter sellers typically show impressive charts that demonstrate long-term removal of chlorine. However, if you read the tests carefully, you’ll see that they apply to “free chorine” (chlorine that has not combined with other constituents in water), and the unfortunate reality is that KDF-filters have little effect on “total chlorine” (combined chlorine), which is the form in which chlorine exists in most tap water. In fact, chlorine is often added at the water plant as a blend with ammonia called “chloramine.” KDF is not effective at removing chloramine or combined chlorine in general.

Although Sprite has added a patented mineral salt to its main KDF formula for the removal of certain forms of combined chlorine, you should not expect Sprite filters to remove chloramine in all applications.

For some time, we sold only one of the several Sprite filter styles—the one that seems to us the most effective and practical shower filter currently manufactured. It’s the “High Output Shower Filter,” which uses a replaceable filter cartridge. The Sprite cartridge features a KDF/mineral salt combination whose lifespan depends on the amount of  chlorine in the water treated as well, of course, as the number of showers taken. The manufacturer recommends replacement after six to eighteen months. We’ve found that on our local water eight to twelve months is a typical replacement figure.  Once a year is a good change schedule for most situations. 

Sprite avoids the pitfalls of some other shower filters. The case is sturdy and seldom cracks. We’ve had no problems at all with premature failure due to blockage and low flow—a common problem with all-KDF units. It’s also the easiest shower filter to install and to service that we’ve found.

We sell the filter only without a shower head, since we’ve found that most people throw away the plastic shower head that comes with shower filters anyway and replace it with their original shower head.

Please note: Sprite changed the name of this product in the late 1990s. It used to be called the RSF or Replaceable Shower Filter. Now it’s called the High Output Shower Filter. It’s the same product. If you have a RSF model, you can use replacement cartridges for the High Output model.