Accessories
The Berkey Water Purifier Spigot
This simple water purifier spigot can be used on any of our water purifiers (even home made “Bucket Purifiers.”Quick Stats:
Price: $7.95 + (Shipping If Total Order is Less Than $50.00)
The Berkey Sight Glass Water Purifier Spigot
This Is Our Premium Water Purifier Spigot. It has been specially designed for our stainless steel water purifiers so you can easily see how much pure water remains in the lower chamber without removing the upper chamber to peek inside. It is very handy!Quick Stats:
Price:
$49.00 for the 7 1/2″ Spigot
$52.00 for the 10″ Spigot
$58.00 for the 13″ Spigot
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The Berkey Light Base
This is a Replacement Base for ALL Berkey Light Models, or an Add-on for the “Big Berkey” stainless steel water purifiers. Just choose “Lighted” (Blue or White) or “Not Lighted.” The image shown is of a “Lighted Base.” A “Not Lighted Base” looks just like the image only it does not have lights in it.Quick Stats:
Price:
$29.00 for the “Not Lighted” Base
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The Berkey Light Replacement Chambers
These are Replacement Chambers for ALL Berkey Light Models.” Please Select “Upper Chamber” or “Lower Chamber” in the Drop-down Box Below. Chambers DO NOT Include: Spigot, Bonnet, Base, or Purification Elements. You May Add These to Your Order Below or Add Items From Any Other Listings On This Website.Quick Stats:
Price:
$52.00 for Either Chamber
The Super Sterasyl 9″ Water “FILTER” Elements
These are Ceramic Water “FILTER” Elements. Our “Black Berkey” elements are Water “PURIFICATION” Elements. There is a significant difference between the two types. Both Elements “Filter” but only the Black Berkey Elements “PURIFY” water.Quick Stats:
Price:
$50.00 (1) Filter Element
The Sterasyl™ Ceramic Shell
The Sterasyl™ grade ceramic is designed to remove suspended solids and pathogenic bacteria (>99.99%). The filter elements are produced using the latest ceramic techniques to provide a hollow porous ceramic, which is fired at a temperature in excess of 1,000º C. They are designed to operate with water flow going from the outside to the inside of the element. The ceramic shell exhibits a strictly controlled pore structure, so as to provide efficient sub-micron filtration, a proven defense against hard-shelled parasites such as Cryptosporidium as well as pathogenic bacteria. The ceramic also removes other less harmful, but equally unpleasant particulate debris such as rust and dirt.
Composition of the Sterasyl™ ceramic contains pure silver. This silver is a material designed to significantly inhibit bacteriological mitosis or grow through. The result is that bacterial growth is inhibited from occurring within the Sterasyl™ ceramic element (which is possible with the other ceramic filter elements). This silver content insures that filtered water contains levels well below those required by international standards. Because of the silver, Sterasyl™ filter elements do not require sterilization after cleaning.
The Sterasyl™ filter, when used in in-line housings, is certified by the National Sanitation Foundation (NSF) as meeting their Standard No 42 for materials.
The Super Sterasyl™ Water Filtration Element
The Sterasyl™ ceramic is the ceramic shell used for the Super Sterasyl™ filter element. Accordingly, this filter element will have, at a minimum, the filtration benefits of the Sterasyl™ ceramic. Additionally, the bore of the ceramic shell is filled with granular activated carbon, which enables the filter to reduce chlorine and organic chemicals while improving the color, taste, and odor of the source water. The re-cleanable Super Sterasyl™ filter elements remove suspended solids, parasites, cysts and pathogenic bacteria (>99.99%) and reduce organic chemicals, pesticides, herbicides, organic solvents, trihalomethanes, SOCs, VOCs and foul tastes and odors. The top of the Super Sterasyl™ element is closed with a unique ceramic dome. This prevents the possibility of breeching (leakage), which can occur with filtration elements that are closed with a plastic cap.
What’s Hiding in Your Drinking Water? Super Sterasyl™ Filters:
Remove Pathogenic Bacteria:
Cholera, Typhoid, Salmonella, Serratia, E.Coli, Fecal Coliform > 99.99% removal.
Remove Cysts (>99.999%):
Cryptosporidium Parvum and Giardia Lamblia – 100% removal (based on tests by Arizona State University).
Reduce Organic Chemicals:
Pesticides, herbicides, organic solvents, SOCs, VOCs, trihalomethanes.
Reduce Chlorine > 90%
Reduce Turbidity, Sediment and Particulate:
@ 0.9 micron > 99.99%
@ 0.5 – 0.8 micron > 99.9%
@ 0.2 – 0.3 micron > 98%
(based on tests by Spectrum Laboratories, Minneapolis, MN).
Maximum working pressure: 125 psi
Maximum working temperature: 100º F
Minimum working temperature: 40º F
Super Sterasyl™ ceramic filters are manufactured to the following international standards and have been tested and approved by the following independent bodies or agencies:
ISO-9000: 2000, Hyder Labs – UK, Spectrum Labs – UK, WRc – Mednenham UK, Clare Microbiology – UK, Loughborough University – UK, University of Arizona – USA, Thresh, Beale, and Suckling – UK, and WRc Gwent – UK.
Bacterial mitosis and “grow-through”
Mitosis is the name for the usual method of bacterial cell division. This division is characterized by resolving the chromatin of the cell nucleus into a threadlike form that condenses into chromosomes, each of which separates longitudinally into two parts, one part of each chromosome being retained in each of the two new daughter cells. When conditions of growth (cell division) are right (proper environmental conditions, temperature, pressure, etc.) and sufficient nutrients, the “threadlike forms” can penetrate ordinary ceramic structure and create bacterial cells on the inside of ceramic elements. The Sterasyl™ grade filter elements incorporate pure silver into the porous ceramic shell, which inhibits mitosis or “grow-through”.
The KDF Shower Filter
Cleaner Showers with Less Scale, Buildup, Chlorine etc. (see more info below)Quick Stats:
Price: $59.00
Quick Summary: KDF Shower Filter (Filter Only No Shower Head)
Description:
The dual media KDF Shower Filter will typically last 10,000 gallons or one year whichever comes first. The shower filter contains KDF 55 granules, which are most effective in removing or reducing chlorine, hydrogen sulfide, microorganisms, scale and water-soluble heavy metals such as lead, mercury, and iron. KDF process media also kill bacteria and inhibit the growth of bacteria, algae, and fungi. As an added benefit, KDF media reduce lime scale, mold, and fungi in your shower. KDF process media are completely safe so the process is not toxic and does not cause any adverse side effects.
Features:
• Effective for both hot and cold water
• Reduces up to 95% of chlorine
• Reduces chemical absorption and vapor inhalation
• Reduces 98% of water soluble heavy metals
• Contains bacteriostatic media (KDF-55)
• Reduces damage to hair and skin
• Eliminates foul tastes and odors
• Back Flush Attachment to prevent premature clogging
• Reduces lime, scale, mold and fungi in showers
Technical Specs:
• In the shower environment, chlorine can either be in liquid or gas state. At higher water temperatures in the enclosed shower stall, free-chlorine moves from the liquid to the gas state, where it vaporizes and subsequently is inhaled. The United States regulates all showerhead flow at 2.5 gallons per minute. Thus, the science behind shower filtration must take into account the unique situation in the shower, including temperature, flow rate and volume.
• Our dual media KDF Shower Filter works on a similar principle to a Catalytic Converter in an automobile. In shower filtration free-chlorine is converted into a harmless chloride. The scientific name for this chemical reaction is known as “Reduction-Oxidation”, commonly referred to as Redox. Redox reactions can be chemically complex. Simply stated, during a Redox reaction electrons are transferred between molecules, creating new elements. For instance, when free-chlorine comes in contact with the filtration media, it is changed into a benign, water-soluble chloride. This reaction changes free-chlorine to a larger chloride element, too large to evaporate or be absorbed by the skin. It is then carried harmlessly through the water supply. Hospitals, restaurants, municipal water treatment facilities, and homes rely on KDF process media to safely reduce or remove free chlorine, iron, iron oxides, heavy metals, hydrogen sulfide and bacteria from their water.
• KDF process media are high-purity copper-zinc formulations used in treatment applications to reduce heavy metals, hydrogen sulfide, microorganisms, and scale. Water filtered through redox media controls microorganism growth. Treating water reduces bacteria and other microorganisms by electron transport, causing cellular damage. KDF process media also kill bacteria by direct electrochemical contact and by the flash formation hydroxyl radicals and hydrogen peroxide, both of which interfere with a microorganism’s ability to function. High-purity copper-zinc redox media consistently remove 99% of free chlorine by electrochemically reducing dissolved chlorine gas to water-soluble chloride ions.
• Redox media remove up to 98% of water-soluble cations (positively-charged ions) of lead, mercury, copper, nickel, chromium, and other dissolved metals. When filtered through KDF media, soluble lead cations are reduced to insoluble lead atoms, which are electroplated onto the surface of the media. All forms of KDF media are guaranteed for product purity, and a certified analytical sheet accompanies each manufacturing run. Patented KDF process media are 100 percent recyclable and contain no chemical additives. KDF media also meet EPA and Food and Drug Administration standards for maximum limits of zinc and copper in potable water.
