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Article #4Re: Electronic Water Softeners
From: DR de Lacey
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 08:55
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 08:55
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Theo Markettos wrote: > CWatters <colin.watters@pandorabox.be> wrote: > >>"The attached document provides an evaluation of current magnetic water >>treatment technology. Scientific literature is reviewed and summarized and >>several devices are tested for scale prevention. In summary the magnetic >>water treatment devices were NOT effective for scale control." > > > I can't cite, but ISTR reading somewhere that these devices were only useful > for closed systems (eg heating systems) not open ones. But in a closed > system you can put cleaning chemicals in the water anyway, so there isn't a > great deal of advantage. That was the consensus of an extensive discussion (with experiments) many years ago on uk.diy, though we were testing permanent magnets. Is it argued that the mains-powered ones work through a different mechanism? I can't remember, but there might be something in the faq. Douglas de Lacey.
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