A drain saddle is used to connect the drain line tube from the reverse osmosis membrane housing to the kitchen sink drain. The water that goes down the drain from the RO filter is water molecules and pollutants that are too large to be squeezed through the membrane. There is not much in tap water that is smaller than a pure water molecule, H2O. Contaminants are either floating amongst the water molecules or they are attached to the water molecules. The holes in a RO membrane are only big enough to allow an H20 molecule that doesn’t have a contaminant attached to it through to the storage tank. Only the pure water molecules will fit through the RO membrane. A RO membrane is more of a separator than a filter. Another way to visualize a RO membrane is to think of it as a screen or a sieve allowing small pieces through while holding back the larger pieces to be washed down the drain.
To install a drain saddle:
- Drill 3/8" hole in the kitchen sink drain line between the sink and the p-trap. Do not mount the RO filter drain saddle after the kitchen sink p-trap.
- Mount the drain saddle on the kitchen sink drain.
- Connect the RO membrane drain tube to the drain saddle.
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