This is one of many devices that make bold claims about reducing build up of mineral deposits in pipework. There are units with fixed magnets inside and active units like this one that have wires that wrap around pipes and claim to expose the minerals to electrical pulses to change their behaviour.
These devices have been around for many decades and usually carry advertising that shows a section of pipe with extreme scale buildup and a section of new clean pipe to show how effective they are.
Note that I can't find any proper research that indicates any of these things work. I like to keep an open mind, but feel that any sound theory behind these types of devices has been lost in the endless torrent of exuberant marketing.
It's very clever though. The unit does employ an animated LED display for the layman and actual swept frequency pulses on the output for people like us to introduce doubt and wonderment.
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These devices have been around for many decades and usually carry advertising that shows a section of pipe with extreme scale buildup and a section of new clean pipe to show how effective they are.
Note that I can't find any proper research that indicates any of these things work. I like to keep an open mind, but feel that any sound theory behind these types of devices has been lost in the endless torrent of exuberant marketing.
It's very clever though. The unit does employ an animated LED display for the layman and actual swept frequency pulses on the output for people like us to introduce doubt and wonderment.
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This also keeps the channel independent of YouTube's advertising algorithms allowing it to be a bit more dangerous and naughty.
I can't find anyone who makes these who shows a side-by-side comparison. Because it's bogus. Thanks!
All these electronic scale inhibitor’s are a total ripoff. I can’t see how they can justify these
Ridiculers prices. For a plastic box with a few component’s inside.
When the Brits and American does it, it is called reverse engineering, when other do it, it is called stealing; lobby vs bribe; reconnaissance vs spy. Isn't language great?
oh god, my dad bought something similar, "magnetic water softener". He was showing me how much less scale he has in his water kettle after plugging it in (I really couldn't see a difference). maybe it was not set up properly but I am really skeptical about devices like these. I mean if we could somehow treat water like they claim it would be awesome but I did not see any long term scientific studies that show this working.
but does it soften water?
a FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIAAA! I like that
4 years ago! My reading tends to show that these can work, but the ones for sale are way too small to help.
I fear that your nice and thorough explanation of this nonsense is water on the mills of the believers. 🎉😂🥳 You also explained the confirmation bias associated with the retrofit of these hoax devices, thanks a lot!
looks like timey wimey wibbly wobbly science to me
"If you use your imagination, you could invent ways this would work."
Seems like they could have simplified it by using an AC-DC power supply rather than AC-AC…? Get the right voltage coming in to start with…
Doesn't do anything, it's not even a question
It's a scam unit .It takes about 460V for it to work through capacitive coupling.I used on my car .It used 2 capacitors .The capacitors were made of an ultra thin PCB as the pad to transfer electricity to the body of the vehicle .It converts 12vdc to 460 v and would alternate between pads .Deadly zap if you touch the pads ! It was called Rust Buster .
The companies that make this stuff go to a lot of trouble and expense to make useless products. Why not just sell an empty box?
Hi Im not a electronics engineer or even an electrician but im amazed at the amount of knowledge you have ,so on that basis can you please tell me is it possible to make a water softener from a transformer, ie to make an electro magnet that can be attached to a copper pipe ?? if so can you give me some details has to how I could do that.
Kind Regards Dave
Scam scammy scam
Is it real? Sure, in terms of it being a real product that they can sell to people and make some money by doing so. Does it work? Damned if I can see how. There's a guy in this area who runs tv commercials trying to sell people something that they call the "scale ban". The commercials show some wire wrapped around a pipe, but I don't know if it's one or both ends of the wire connected in that setup. He's really annoying in those commercials. 🙂 We have some pretty hard water here, and a whole house filter gets a bunch of it, which suffices for things like the wasther and doing dishes and such, and then after that there's a reverse osmosis filter that provides some drinking water at a lower rate of flow. Both of these need to be changed from time to time. Lots of minerals in the water here, some calcium and a lot of iron, which shows up as rusty stains on the shower head and such. Personally I wouldn't waste any money on this thing. That is a rather nifty display, though.