I unboxed my Platypus QuickDraw filter today. I really like the caps for the filter and the fill bag. The package and construction is far better than the sawyers I’ve been using the past few years.
I ran a liter through to “wet out” the filter cartridge as described in the instructions. After the wet out my flow rate remained horrible—a small trickle while really muscling the dirty bag (and a far cry from the advertised 3L/min). I ran about 10 L through it today and it has sped up to what I would consider to be a minimally useable flow rate, something like 0.5 L/min.
Googling found a few folks reporting this issue, but no solutions. Has anyone else run into this with the QuickDraw? I am going to try running some water through and flushing a few more times to see if it will continue to break in. I really like the package and construction, but this poor flow may be a deal breaker.
I ran a liter through to “wet out” the filter cartridge as described in the instructions. After the wet out my flow rate remained horrible—a small trickle while really muscling the dirty bag (and a far cry from the advertised 3L/min). I ran about 10 L through it today and it has sped up to what I would consider to be a minimally useable flow rate, something like 0.5 L/min.
Googling found a few folks reporting this issue, but no solutions. Has anyone else run into this with the QuickDraw? I am going to try running some water through and flushing a few more times to see if it will continue to break in. I really like the package and construction, but this poor flow may be a deal breaker.