Electronic Water Softeners

Damian Glasfurd-Brown · 2005-09-16T11:19:42+00:00

Hi folksMy traditional salt-eating water softener (protecting a family householdsupply) 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 wirewrapped around your water mains inlet pipe, which are supplied a currentby a small mains-attached box. The principle is that the crystallinestructure of the "hard" components of the water is altered in such a wayas to prevent it aggregating.It is claimed that these are just as effective. They are certainly agreat deal cheaper to buy and run, easier to install, and would seem tobe a no-brainer decision. But it seems to good to be true.Has anyone got direct experience of these devices, and advice to offeron whether they work as advertised?Thanks in advance :-)Damian

Sep 16, 2005 Last reply: 7 years ago 25 Replies

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Owain 20 years ago

I wonder if they'll have it back in stock next February

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Owain 20 years ago

That's like telling a child Santa doesn't exist :-(

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dennis 20 years ago

Would you like to post the hardness figures for your water before and after treatment? Not that I don't believe you, but......

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dennis 20 years ago

Isn't an Aqua dial a conventional ion exchange unit? They do work as we all know.

Its the electronic descallers that don't which it waht the OP asked about.

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The Natural Philosopher 20 years ago

Descalers are not water softeners.

Descalers only claim to prevent hard scale build up in certain places.

They are supposed to modify the type of crystals that are produced so that instead of scale constipation, you get carbonate diahoerrhea.

This - if it works* - may well protect central heating pumps, and even stop appliances scaling up, but it does nothing for soap consumption and will still leave calcium stearate scums everywhere on the bath.

*and even the most positive tests seem to indicate it only works close to the device in areas of cavitation like pumps.

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Scott 7 years ago

replying to Damian Glasfurd-Brown, Scott wrote: Got one, works brilliantly the make is Vulcan V5000 It?s not cheap but really effective It?s not a magnetic system like the cheap coils type but instead works on capacitive impulses

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