HM Digital FM-2 filter monitor, volumizer keeps tabs on your RO/DI system
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The HM Digital FM-2 filter monitor and volumizer is a nifty tool for keeping track of when to change out your reverse osmosis and de-ionization unit’s filters. The simple digital display can track up to five stages by both time and volume of water going through your RO or RO/DI unit and alert you when to change out that specific stage. No more guessing on how many gallons have traveled through your unit, you’ll be able to set the monitor to keep tabs on the volume rate and know when to change your filters. This will be quite handy to set out a filter-changing cycle where you may want to do more frequent changes to the sediment or pre-filters that are less expensive as well as taking the brunt of the filtration. An LED faucet indicator disc will illuminate a green, yellow or red light when the water is turned on indicating the percentage of elapsed time. Attaching the volumizer is via ¼†quick disconnect connections and will let you chose water volume in either gallons or liters. These units are priced just under $50 USD and is currently on sale for $38.99 over at Bulk Reef Supply.
- A five-stage filter monitor with five independent timers and a tri-color LED faucet indicator disc.
- The volumizer counts up in gallons or liters (settings can be modified).
- Works on time (and volume for the FM-2) for up to five stages (can be less).
- The LED indicator disc will illuminate a green, yellow or red light when the water is turned on. The color indicates the percentage of elapsed time.
- Auto-Off function conserves battery power. The unit shuts off automatically after 5 minutes of non-use.
- The timer counts down in months or days (settings can be modified).
- Includes an audible alarm (beep).

Sounds like a neat product however a few worries
1: Does this actually test anything like a TDS meter? Or is it simply measuring the volume of water going through? Volume is a very poor indicator depending upon how chlorinated your water is, or how dirty it is
2: Is it just a timer? If so that’s also a really poor indicator since it depends how much water you process more so than how long you’ve been processing water. The guy doing weekly water changes needs to replace filters much more than the guy doing monthly ones
3: How is it powered? I have an inline TDS meter on mine but damnit if those ultra expensive watch batteries seem to die off within a year or so making the TDS meter quite useless.
Currently I simply have a pressure gauge attached, so when the pressure isn’t up to snuff I figure they might be a clog and filters need to be replaced.
November 17th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
Mike,
It appears it is battery operated and has a 5 min inactivity off timer. This is definitely not a replacement for a TDS meter and is just a simple timer and volume meter.
November 17th, 2009 at 1:53 pm
Gotcha, I can see how it can be useful, however I’ll stick with my old school timer of just writing the month on the RO/DI unit that I swapped out the filters
November 17th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
No changin batteries with that method
Calendar reminders on your email are useful too. I set them up for lots of things and then ignore them LOL
November 17th, 2009 at 6:37 pm