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"Damian Glasfurd-Brown" <dljb2@spamtrap.cam.ac.uk> wrote in message
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> Hi folks
>
> My traditional salt-eating water softener (protecting a family household
> supply) has broken.  I am looking at about �500 to replace it.
>
> I note that a number of suppliers offer electronic water softeners
> (sometimes referred to as descalers) which consist of coils of wire
> wrapped around your water mains inlet pipe, which are supplied a current
> by a small mains-attached box.  The principle is that the crystalline
> structure of the "hard" components of the water is altered in such a way
> as to prevent it aggregating.
>
> It is claimed that these are just as effective.  They are certainly a
> great deal cheaper to buy and run, easier to install, and would seem to
> be a no-brainer decision.  But it seems to good to be true.

Aren't these usually sold with silver foil hats to stop aliens reading your
brainwaves.