Water filter orientation

[Rvliberty]

I am trying to make more roomin the undersink area of the galley ina 2012 WGO View 24 J. I want to take the cold water filter and mount it horizontally instead of the factory vertical installation. Does anyone know of any issues with doing this?

[Gary RV Roamer]

Assuming it's the typical carbon cannister type, I would not expect any problems with orientation. They depends only on the direction of water flow.

[Alaskansnowbirds]

How will you change the filter element? It will dump all the water when you open it to change the element. Big mess under the sink.

[Gary RV Roamer]

Just takes a dishpan under the filter when swapping. And if its an inline cannister instead of the cartridge type, it won't make much difference anyway.

[rvpuller]

Our RO system has been laying down for the last 6 years without any problems, as far as changing them just leave enough tubing so you can take it out of the cabinet when it's time to change the filters.

Denny

[Lou Schneider]

Has anyone had any issues with air pockets in a sideways filter?  When it's hanging vertically the inlet and outlet are both on top, so any air quickly bleeds out.

Mount the filter sideways and the intake/outlet are at the midway point.   Theoretically at least you could have an air pocket leaving the upper half of the filter dry.

[JPete]

Another potential problem may be stress on the housing that the filter mounts to as it may be designed to support the filter in a vertical position only. When the filter is full of water is is fairly heavy.
Just my 2 cents.

Pete