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It does work very nicely with an attached vacuum pump but....you should practice with water first to get the feel and proper set screw (flow regulator) setting. Regardless of whether you use a vacuum pump or not, the filler requires head pressure on the inlet to shutoff properly when filling. This means that the carboy that feeds the filler needs to be above your wine bottle. Caveat: Having carboy and bottle at the same level does work with a vacuum pump, but shutoff is less sensitive and causes more wine to go into overflow which I empirically determined to be about 1% of the total fill....still not bad. I got great performance with the carboy elevated just above the top of wine bottle with vacuum pump. The set screw was all the way out (no spring tension) and vacuum pressure was maintained at about 3.0 inHg. Yes, that's very little vac pressure, but it filled bottles quickly with consistent shutoff and minimal overflow (less than 1%). This is very nice considering the carboy requires very little elevation. The filler does work well on gravity feed only, but the vacuum pump provides a good flowrate with the carboy at a lower elevation, which is easier on older backs. I am quite satisfied with the filler's cost to benefit, considering I do about 50 bottles a year. If you have a money tree then you should be looking at an Enolmatic or Buon Vino Jet Filler.

Prior to this purchase, I was using the typical bottling wand. Since so many of my bottles are so dark, it was nearly impossible to see how much wine was going in each bottle. Unless it came bubbling out of the top of the bottle, I was just guessing. This filler has made bottling so much easier. I've never had a problem with it shutting off filling when each bottle is full. I'm getting fuller bottles with much, much less spillage. I have a feeling that a lot of the negative reviews are people who just don't know how to use it. You need to keep it pushed into the bottle top hard so that any overflow goes out the overflow tube. It's worked great for me.

Work great first few times. Followed care instructions to the tee. But now it does not work at all.

Worked OK for a while, but now it makes a mess if I don't operate it manually. The main problem is the automatic shutoff doesn't work properly, so wine overflows the bottle and/or through the drain line. Big mess. It still works OK if I manually pull the shutoff button up - at least I can get consistent ullage that way. One of these days I'm going to try hooking it up to my vacuum pump. Maybe that will work better. One gets what one pays for I guess.

Had trouble getting it started, then worked well except it overfills a bit. I will try too just it with next use

I've tried filler wands, sprouts,etc. this one is by far the best and fastest filler I've used. The only adjustment I made was to the rubber stopper which controls fill height. For a home brewer, I don't think I'll use anything else. The price is great and filler workers well and is easy to use. Read the instructions on how to handle it as there are things you shouldn't do with it.

I read many of the reviews and also read the questions and when I received the unit, put it in water to test and adjust as necessary. The regulator set screw on the side of the unit did nothing. The unit leaked unless I physically pulled up on the center piece that is supposed to pop up when the bottle is full, which by the way, never happened! I give it two stars for the concept is good. The product is not! I am mechanically inclined and perhaps I am missing something, but sent a message to the company and will revisit the review if I hear from them. For now, suggest you look elsewhere for a bottle filler!

We have been using a simple $5 bottle filler that you hold down to the bottom of the bottle to fill. This works ok but you have to hold down all the time and its hard to use on punted bottles. Punted bottles are the ones with the big divot in the bottom vs. being a flat bottom. Also it can be hard to see the fill level on dark or green bottles. Now that we are on our 5th batch of Wine its just time move on to something a little better. We used this on our last six gallon batch and it worked great. I did have to adjust it slightly but it was close, just a tad to sensitive. Adjustment could not be easier and it probably depends some on how high up you have the jug your filing from. I was a little concerned at first as the material to seal the bottle seemed a tad stiff but it sealed up with no problems. No fuss no muss.

Works as described

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I purchased this item and used it the first time and it was ok, second time using everytime the system shut itself off, wine came pissing out the sides, i checked the unit and all along where there were screws, the plastic was cracked all around the bottom of the unit. obviously a defective unit, seems like the screws were tightened too much cracking the cheap plastic, I am disgusted i spent $45 to only use once, quality control is non existent, selling inferior products, what a scam. only one star as i had to choose one to be able to post the message, its crap. Steven Pickel

It's a bit annoying to setup, but if you are doing 5 gallons fermenters, it's worth the 5 mins setup time.

I have successfully used these wine bottle fillers for many years. This latest, is my third filler, but I have just returned one, which during it's first use leaked air. The ordered replacement came within 3 days, and following Amazon's instructions, the return of the faulty one was easy. I have noticed that all the fillers have the same fault, the pressure adjusting set screw rusts and eventually fails.