A200 Drinking Water Sytem
Sanitization Procedure
If you choose to change the cartridges on your A200 Drinking Water System
yourself, you must use a sanitization kit available from your Kinetico dealer.
Follow these instructions to fully sanitize your system. Wash your hands
thoroughly and do not touch any internal portions of the system. Or call your local,
authorized Kinetico dealer who can change the necessary filters, disinfect your
system and analyze your water to be sure it is of the best quality.
WARNING: To avoid possible injury and property damage, this system must be
NOTE: Be prepared to catch any water when disconnecting and sanitizing your
system.
A. Remove the decorative cover. Close the cold water supply valve. Open the
drinking water tap to drain the storage tank. Wait until all the flow stops at
the open tap before continuing (this may take several minutes).
B. Remove the prefilter and postfilter cartridges
accidental water spills when removing the cartridges. Discard the cartridges.
Remove the membrane cartridge from the center of the bracket assembly
Drain this cartridge into a pan or the sink and retain it for reinstallation later
in this procedure.
C. Fill the sanitizer cartridges full with clean water. Add 1 dropper (5 mL) of
regular, unscented household bleach (5.25% sodium hypochlorite) to the
center of each cartridge
postfilter and membrane heads
D. Close the drinking water tap. Be sure the storage tank valve is open. Slowly
open the cold water supply valve and allow chlorinated water to fill the storage
tank for approximately four to five minutes.
E. Close the cold water supply valve and the storage tank valve. Open the
tap to depressurize the system. Remove the sanitizer cartridges
Be prepared to catch accidental spills from these cartridges. Drain the
cartridges and reinstall the protective caps. Set aside one of the cartridges for
use in Step G. Retain the other two sanitizer cartridges for future use. Close
the tap.
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properly depressurized before attempting to remove any cartridge or
other component.
. Install the sanitizer cartridges into the prefilter,
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