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Average Home Water Softener Kit for Up To Twenty Grains Hardness

MAX Average Set and a Mini - Up To 60 Grains Hardness

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How Magnetic Water Conditioners Work

(In a Nutshell)

Scale Buildup In Pipe We call water hard when it contains calcium, magnesium, lime scale, iron bacteria, or minerals.

Scale Buildup In Pipe Without treatment, these are attracted to and stick to pipe walls, hot water tank elements, faucets, and tea pots, to name a few, and form scale buildup.

Scale Buildup In Pipe When these elements pass through a focused flux field produced by very powerful magnets, they become suspended in the water and loose their ability to stick to things.

Scale Buildup In Pipe This effect will last for approximately 48 hours before beginning to return to the sticking state. In most homes, this is more than enough time for water to travel from where it enters the home to where it goes down the drain.

Not only does magnetic water conditioning reduce future scale buildup, in a few months it removes the years of existing scale from the inside of your appliances, fixtures and pipes!

Neodymium Magnets

Ceramic Verses Neodymium Magnets

The most common magnetic water conditioning units you will find use ceramic magnets, including the ones we produced from 1995 till December of 2006. While these ceramic based units work well - the neodymium magnets are the leading edge! The difference between our ceramic and our neodymium units is very noticeable.

Grade 8 is the strongest ceramic magnet available and has a gauss rating of 3,850. All of our new NEO PLUS units contain grade N42 neodymium magnets that have a gauss rating of 13,200 each.

Pulling force is another rating for magnets. Grade 8 ceramic magnets of the size normally used for magnetic water softener units have a pulling force of 4 to 12 pounds. Our N42 grade NEO PLUS magnets on our small ice maker units have a pulling force of 38 pounds, and our standard and large pipe magnets have a pulling force of 68 pounds each!

2+2 Does Not = 4 With Magnetics

If you put six 1,000 gauss magnets together, you do not get 6,000 gauss. You get 1,000 gauss with more pulling power. In fact, when the surface of a magnet is measured with a gauss meter, it always measures quite a bit less than the magnet is rated. The measurements taken below give you an idea of how the flux field is in reality.

Surface of a grade 8 ceramic magnet.
Ceramic Magnetic Reading

Surface of an N42 neodymium NEO PLUS magnet!

Standard NEO PLUS Reading Inside 3/4" Copper Pipe!
Over 5,100 gauss maximium! Focused Neodymium Reading In Pipe

Large Pipe NEO PLUS Reading Inside 1 1/2" Sch 40 PVC Pipe!
Over 3,600 gauss maximium! Magnetic field using our large pipe unit

The Bottom Line? If You Want The Best - Get Neodymium!

Magnetic Water Treatment FAQs

What is hard water?
Hard water is water that contains high amounts of dissolved minerals such as calcium and magnesium.

How do I know if I have hard water?
You should speak to your water provider, who will be able to tell you the degree of hardness of your water. Alternatively you can obtain a testing kit and find out for yourself. Just google "hard water test kit".

What should I do to treat my hard water problem?
In our opinion, the most comprehensive, environmentaly friendly and least expensive solution would be to install a set of magnetic water treatment units. We offer sets for homes and businesses that are very competitively priced.

What kind of pipes can these be placed on?
These can be placed on PVC (plastic of all kinds) and copper water lines. Galvanized pipe reduces the magnetic field and it is not recommended, however, you can replace a 2ft section of the galvanized pipe with either PVC or copper and place the units on that seciton.

Conditioned water or softened water- what's the difference?
When water is softened, the calcium and magnesium content is replaced with salt (sodium). With magnetically conditioned water, the calcium becomes suspended in the water, and will pass through your pipes and fixtures rather than adhering to them.

How long do the effects of magnetic water treatment last?
Test have shown that the effects of magnetic water treatment begin to diminish around 48 hours after the water has passed through the magnetic field. Under normal conditions this is more than enough time for the water to travel from the house inlet to your drains. The 2 exceptions to this are the hot water tanks and ice makers.

Hot Water Tanks
Water is stored and heated in your tank. Time and heat both can reduce the magnetic effect on water. We always recommend a unit be placed on the output line to re-magnetize the water leaving the tank.

Ice Makers
The water volume through ice makers is very low and because of that, it could take several days for the water to travel from where it enters your home to your ice maker. We recommend you place an ice maker unit on the small water line behind the fridge to re-magnetize the water.

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