A: possibly yes. (Never thought I'd find myself saying that :-))Took out a CW storage tank and HW cylinder yesterday and found a magneticgizmo on the 15mm copper feed to the system. The storage tank had a verysmall amount of scale encrustation around the water level line. Thecylinder had no evidence of _any_ limescale in the bottom (it was as lightas a new one when I lifted it out (not quite one-handed, but not theusual hernia-inducing lugging/dragging one usually has to do).This is in a hard-as-nails water area (Reading) where storage tanks oftenhave sheets of limescale around the sides and bottom, and cylinders havehalf a builder's bag of limescale in the bottom.Interestingly the last few litres of water (tipping the cylinder over toget out the liquid below the bottom inlet tapping) were a sort of brownsludge.Someone had written on the magnetic gizmo that it was installed in 1993.So there you go. I won't be fitting them to my installations: I needsomething that provably works, and for all I know there could be somecompletely different phenomenon at work here[1], or it may not workeverywhere, and I can't afford to take chances with customers'installations. But I'd be interested to know if others have similar - or contradictory -evidence. FWIW this unit was called an AQUAMAG and consists of two plasticblocks about 200mm long which clip together over a 15mm pipe, and (judgingfrom the way a ferrous object is attracted to the blocks, and the twohalf-blocks attract and repel each other) seems to have 4 sets of magnetsarranged thusASCII art ----------------------- | N----S----N----S----N |-------------------------------- p i p e-------------------------------- | S----N----S----N----S | -----------------------[1] and no, there wasn't a water softener in the system, or any evidenceof a bag-in-the-tank type scale inhibitor in the tank.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when thedrugs began to take hold. I remember YAPH sayingsomething like:But you never know - there could have been, for years.

Magnetic scale inhibitors - do they work?

Oct 17, 2008 Last reply: 7 years ago 23 Replies

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YAPH 17 years ago

So did your work on applied magnetism specifically look at effects on limescale deposition? (I'd have thought that was more Applied Chemistry, anyway.)

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Scott 7 years ago

replying to YAPH, Scott wrote: I have a Vulcan V5000 electronic anti-scale system installed German manufactured It?s not cheap but the damn thing works really well using capacitive impulses Worth the investment for me

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Tim Streater 7 years ago

WTF is a "capacitive impulse" ??

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Brian Gaff 7 years ago

He obviously has a basement full of unsold stock to shift after Christmas.

Beware, its not going to work indeed might make things worse after a time. Scott seems to be everywhere today. I bet its great for removing sludge from oil feed pipes as well.

Could I have one fitted to my main arteries in my body to stop plaque build up? Brian

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