Speaking of water softeners...

Posted by Dioclese on June 13, 2009, 9:11 am

I ran into a water softener unit that doesn't use salts in the process.
Rather, it uses a coiled wire around the piping. It touts rapidly changing
electrical frequency going through the wire. Supposedly, the calcium is
supposed to pass safely to the drain, rather than sticking to the piping and
hot water heater electrical elements.

This for real?

--
Dave

Posted by Matt Barrow on June 13, 2009, 9:16 pm

"Dioclese" <NONE> wrote in message
>I ran into a water softener unit that doesn't use salts in the process. Rather,
>it uses a coiled wire around the piping. It touts rapidly changing electrical
>frequency going through the wire. Supposedly, the calcium is supposed to pass
>safely to the drain, rather than sticking to the piping and hot water heater
>electrical elements.
> This for real?

It's real - really exepnsive. Not the sort of system you'll buy at Home Depot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_exchange

Posted by Warren Block on June 14, 2009, 11:15 am

Dioclese <NONE> wrote:
> I ran into a water softener unit that doesn't use salts in the process.
> Rather, it uses a coiled wire around the piping. It touts rapidly changing
> electrical frequency going through the wire. Supposedly, the calcium is
> supposed to pass safely to the drain, rather than sticking to the piping and
> hot water heater electrical elements.
> This for real?

http://www.chem1.com/CQ/aquacrack.html

--
Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota * USA

Posted by Dioclese on June 14, 2009, 11:07 pm

> Dioclese <NONE> wrote:

>> I ran into a water softener unit that doesn't use salts in the process.
>> Rather, it uses a coiled wire around the piping. It touts rapidly
>> changing
>> electrical frequency going through the wire. Supposedly, the calcium is
>> supposed to pass safely to the drain, rather than sticking to the piping
>> and
>> hot water heater electrical elements.
>> This for real?

> http://www.chem1.com/CQ/aquacrack.html
> --
> Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota * USA

Apparently, the author/writer is unsure about the type I'm asking about.
Here is an example:
http://www.equinox-products.com/HardnessMaster.htm

I planned on putting such in my wellhouse before it feeds the reservoir tank
and tees off to feed the house and garage. The operating temperature
eztremes for the device are borderline in winter and summer in the
wellhouse. Another outbuilding, adjacent to the house rear contains a 3
filter stage system. It cooler in the summer in there Guess that would be
the place to put it. That is, if it works.
--
Dave

Posted by Warren Block on June 15, 2009, 10:22 am

Dioclese <NONE> wrote:

>> Dioclese <NONE> wrote:

>>> I ran into a water softener unit that doesn't use salts in the process.
>>> Rather, it uses a coiled wire around the piping. It touts rapidly
>>> changing
>>> electrical frequency going through the wire. Supposedly, the calcium is
>>> supposed to pass safely to the drain, rather than sticking to the piping
>>> and
>>> hot water heater electrical elements.
>>> This for real?

>> http://www.chem1.com/CQ/aquacrack.html

> Apparently, the author/writer is unsure about the type I'm asking about.
> Here is an example:
> http://www.equinox-products.com/HardnessMaster.htm

http://www.chem1.com/CQ/aquacrack.html isn't my web page, just one that
seems to have a reasonable treatment of the subject.

The equipment discussed is the same type as the link, an electric coil
around a water pipe.

Google returns some interesting results for the HardnessMaster.

--
Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota * USA

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