Berkey
Royal Berkey® System (3.25 gal)
Royal Berkey® System (3.25 gal)
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Sized for a family, ready for an emergency.
The Royal Berkey® is the versatile middle of the range — large enough to keep a medium-sized household in drinking water every day, and capable of carrying a crowd when the tap stops being trustworthy. Highly polished AISI 304 stainless steel, with an upper chamber that nests inside the lower one for transport.
No power. No plumbing. Just gravity and time.
Pour untreated water into the upper chamber and walk away. Water molecules are drawn gently through the micro-porous structure of the Black Berkey® elements by gravity alone — no pump, no cartridge housing, no electricity.
Because the water is not forced through under pressure, it stays in contact with the trapping media for several minutes rather than a fraction of a second. That dwell time is the whole point: it multiplies the media's ability to capture what is passing through, which is why these elements go far beyond what a plain activated-carbon filter can do.
Prime the elements
Saturate the filters with water before first use.
Fill the upper chamber
Tap, well, stream or rain barrel.
Let gravity work
Water passes through and collects below.
Draw from the spigot
That is the entire operating procedure.
Two very different jobs.
Serves 2–4 people
Sits on the counter, gets filled once or twice a day, and quietly replaces every bottle of water you would otherwise buy.
Up to 100–200 people a day
Fully configured with four elements, running continuously. The same unit that made your morning coffee can supply a neighborhood.
Start with two elements. Add two more when you want the speed.
| Configuration | Flow rate | PF-2 capacity |
|---|---|---|
| 2 Black Berkey® elements (standard) | Up to 4 gal/hr (15.1 L) | Up to 2 |
| 4 Black Berkey® elements (maximum) | Up to 7 gal/hr (26.5 L) | Up to 4 |
Flow rate is calculated with the upper chamber full to the top, and decreases as the water level declines.
The numbers.
- Capacity
- ~3.25 gallons (12.3 litres)
- Height in use
- 23 inches
- Height nested
- 15.25 inches
- Diameter
- 9.5 inches
- Weight empty
- 8 lbs
- Construction
- Highly polished AISI 304 stainless steel
- Maximum elements
- 4 Black Berkey® (upper chamber)
- Serves daily
- 2–4 people
Complete out of the carton.
- Upper and lower stainless steel chambers
- 2 Black Berkey® Purification Elements (expandable to 4)
- Stainless steel lid and spigot
- 2 wingnuts, 2 washers, 1 priming button
- 2 blocking plugs for unused element holes
- Rubber gasket to protect the base
Worth adding: a Berkey Base™ to raise the spigot high enough for a tall glass, and PF-2™ elements if fluoride and arsenic are on your list.
Water you control.
No filters to subscribe to, no power to lose, no plumbing to modify.
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