WaterChefMicroPRO UV LED Under-Sink Water Purifier
UVC LED disinfection with no bulb to replace, intended to run downstream of a carbon filter.
$374
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Usability
Usability
The MicroPRO is for a household on a private well or an intermittently unreliable supply that already has carbon filtration and wants a microbiological barrier at the tap. Its strongest attribute is the LED architecture: no mercury, no warm-up, no annual lamp to buy, and a footprint small enough to fit beside a filter housing rather than needing its own cabinet. Its weakest is that WaterChef publishes no NSF/ANSI 55 certification for it, so the 99.99 percent figure is a manufacturer claim on a product class where an independent listing is the whole point. The one-year warranty also sits oddly against the lifetime cover on the filtration systems it is sold to accompany. At $373.96 it costs three quarters of a U9000 while removing nothing chemical. Buy it for a microbiological problem you have actually tested for, not as a general upgrade.
- UVC LED modules mean no lamp replacements and no mercury
- Instant-on with no warm-up period, unlike conventional UV
- Small enough to fit under a sink alongside a filter housing
- Colour LCD display reports system status
- Sold with or without a WaterChef designer faucet in four finishes
- No NSF/ANSI 55 certification is published, so the 99.99 percent claim is manufacturer-stated
- Removes no chemical contaminants at all; it is a disinfection stage only
- One-year warranty against lifetime on WaterChef's filtration systems
- LED modules are rated 5,000 hours and WaterChef does not publish a module replacement price
- Listed at 43 percent off a $653.99 compare-at price the brand does not appear to charge
- No flow rate is published anywhere on the product page
The WaterChef MicroPRO is an under-sink ultraviolet purifier that uses solid-state UVC LED modules rather than a mercury lamp, which removes the annual bulb change and shrinks the reactor enough to sit alongside a filter under a standard sink. WaterChef states up to 99.99 percent reduction of waterborne viruses and bacteria, with instant-on operation and a colour LCD status display. It is a disinfection stage only and removes no chemical contaminants, so it is designed to run downstream of a U9000 or U8500. Warranty is one year.
Additional information
Specification: WaterChef MicroPRO UV LED Under-Sink Water Purifier
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