Anybody had any experience with these? I ask because where we are in Lakewood CA we have really hard water, and they have recently started banning salt based water softening in some parts of the LA area due to secondary contamination by the salt.
Any thoughts? I am fairly well convinced that the magnet stuff is of questionable science, but I have no clue about this one.
http://www.sterling-water.com/residential-water-conditioners.htm
jose
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The non-salt systems are much more expensive. I have something like 1400 ppm of hardness in my water; it was messing up everything. The salt based system works great! Before I got that, I used the magnets; bought 6 of them; They worked somewhat, but not to the extent needed for 1400 ppm (I think 300 ppm hardness is about the limit for magnets). Magnets will run you in the low hundreds of dollars [say $200 or so]. Salt based system will be the low thousands [say $2-3000 or so]; you need to add a reverse-osmosis filter for drinking water. non-salt is probably mid thousands.
Regards,
Roger <><