Water softeners: Alternatives - the electronic non-salt 'water softener'?

Magnetic devices have been around for over 30 years and are not a new item. In more recent years, electromagnetic devices have joined the affray. New companies come and go frequently and offer a variation on the same theme. Characterized by the external coils of wire, their claim is that it is possible to induce micro nucleus seeds of scale to form in the water stream thereby reducing the amount adhering to the metal pipes. They do this by creating a small electromagnetic field with simple wires wrapped around the incoming water pipes in the house.

Although it doesn’t work for everyone, the company has shown in private that it is possible using a highly sensitive scientific process to actually measure nucleus seeds of scale forming. The actual real-world effectiveness and degree to which this is successful has never been quantified in publicly available information. Although it is thought to be undetectable to the layman, the company freely admits that ‘some people are happy with this degree of softening’.

We can see that customers would want this type of simple product to work, and yet time and time again since 1982 we have come across countless householders who have asked us to remove magnetic and electromagnetic gadgets when we fit a Ensign water softener because they are frustrated with the lack of real-world success that it has had.

They complain that the scale still forms and they can’t see any difference with the soaps and lather, saying 'it's not like the soft water in Cornwall or Scotland'. They say they are a 'waste of money' and 'don’t actually do anything'. The shortened money back guarantee periods they offer exacerbates the situation.

It's one of the biggest frustrations we face at Ensign. Continuingly meeting people who have succumb to the hype and rhetoric of the magnetic and electromagnetic gadget suppliers. They are the ones that have fallen for the claims of the electronic non-salt 'water softener' companies.

All we can do is be sympathetic and add their old device to our growing collected of failed gadgets that now covers all the currently available brands.

The shortcomings of the electronic non-salt 'water softeners' devices are becoming increasingly apparent to the public at large.

	Nobody but a stooge would recommend a magnetic or electromagnetic gadget when they’ve seen what a genuine salt regenerated water softener does.
Malachite (Fools gold)		Genuine gold

FACT:
As one of our newly converted customers put it:-