Jarniscipus
Member
I am on a well and have a small inline filter (photo below) after the well tank and before the irrigation feed and the water conditioner - a Hellendbrand iron curtain and then a Hellenbrand promate 6 softener. It works great. I clean the pre-filter every few months and there usually is about a tea spoon of fine silt in it at most. I am replumbing everything so now I am thinking about it - my question is do I need this filter, if i removed it would the backflushing of the iron filter and softener be able to deal with this or is this pre-filter truly protecting my system and i must have it? It seems like it is just something to clog up if the conditioners can handle it or this stuff just passes through my fixtures.