By Mark S. Timmons, CWS-VI, CI, CSR
Vice President, US Water Systems, Inc.
aka/The Water Doctor
Indiana's Highest Certified Water Treatment Specialist
Yes, they really work, but they don’t all work the same. Most electronic and/or magnetic devices that we have tested are 40% to 60% efficient. I just don’t think most people would be satisfied with that level of efficiency when it comes to scale prevention. It would seem to me that you would want something that would provide something close to 100% scale prevention. I know I would.
First of all, electronic or magnetic devices designed to prevent scaling in plumbing systems are not new. They have been around for over 50 years, and it seems that every few years another new one pops onto the scene only to fade into oblivion a few years later, because it just didn’t do the job.
I can tell you for a fact that there is validity to electronic or electro-magnetic water conditioning. I have studied, tested and researched it for years. The problem is that for a device to do this properly, it needs to be very sophisticated (expensive) and use a lot of amps (electricity). Electro-magnetic devices that use only a small amount of electricity are doomed to fail.
The WQA (Water Quality Association) and NSF (National Sanitation Foundation) developed protocol for testing and validating the efficiency of salt-using water softeners years ago. It’s simple to see if a system works and does what it says. Most companies that I know of in the Central Indiana area all sell water softeners that meet the standards of WQA and NSF. However, for numerous reasons (many being political), no American Standards have been developed as yet for the testing and validating of Salt-Free Water Conditioners.
Therefore, it is literally “Let the Buyer Beware” when it comes to these devices. Frankly, most do not do what they say. However, there is no reason to be confused. The German Technical and Scientific Association for Gas and Water (DVGW) has developed protocol for testing scale prevention properties of these types of devices. This testing protocol is called DVGW Standard W 512.
In order to be certified by this agency, a device must reach the threshold of being at least 80% efficient. There are several devices throughout the world which are certified as being at least 80% efficient, but to my knowledge, there is only one such device in the USA that achieves this level of efficiency, that being nextScaleStop manufactured by next Filtration Technologies, Inc. of Incline Village, Nevada and that is the product we handle. Here is a copy of their lab testing which shows that it was tested as 99.6% efficient!
Remember this: Only a salt-based water softener “softens” water. If you like the “slick” feeling of soft water, you won’t like this. We “condition” the water by preventing it from sticking to any surface and one more thing we do that no magnetic or electronic water conditioning device can do is that we remove or reduce the hazardous chemicals like chlorine, THM’s, PCB’s, pesticides, tastes and odors – with our system, we remove the dangerous contaminants while leaving the beneficial minerals. Ours is truly the “greenest” system on the market!
I would not be comfortable selling a product that wasn’t nearly 100% efficient at reducing scale and had the certification to prove it! Is not an electronic or electro-magnetic process but uses a process called Template Assisted Crystallization. We can prove that our system works and give a 1-year Money-Back Guarantee.*
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