Sunday, March 14, 2010
6:47 PM | 
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LuisAHarris
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Product Description
Use less soap, and remove scale from your pipes - continuously, automatically and for only about $5 in electricity a year. Clearwave is the most advanced computerized anti-scale device available today. Its computer chip is programmed to bombard water passing through your pipe with over 200 different electromagnetic low frequency pulses. These electromagnetic pulses have been scientifically proven to increase the electromotive attraction potential of the water to mineral salts. The result is that the mineral salts (mainly calcium bicarbonate) stays dissolved in the water instead of converting to insoluble calcium carbonate and attaching itself to the inside of pipes as scale. Existing scale in pipes, water heaters, toilets and faucets begin to soften and dissolve away. Recommended for dishwashers, washing machines, coffee makers, and boilers.Clearwave can even replace base exchange softening systems and the associated maintenance costs.Installation of the Clearwave is simple. Mount to the main incoming water pipe to the home with pipe clips, wrap the antenna leads around pipe and then plug into a 110V power supply. One unit handles incoming supply pipes up to 1" in diameter. For pipes 1 1/4" to 1 1/2" use two units in series. Works with all types of pipe including: copper, pvc, galvanized, and stainless steel. Manufacturer's part number CW-1.Technical Details
- Use less soap and remove scale from your pipes
- Costs less than $5 per year
- Replaces base exchange softening systems
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Customer Reviews
By Valerie
I live in San Diego, which may have the hardest water on the planet. I don't like the feeling of salt water softners, so wanted to give this a try. It absolutely did nothing to help clear out all the mineral deposits I get on my dishes and around my faucets. I finally got a DIFI "Dishwasher Filtration System" attached to my dish washer, and that has really helped keep the glasses clear. It doesn't help the sinks in the rest of the house, but it's at least an improvement on the biggest problem area.
By Applied Science (Gulf Coast Country, US)
Re: "Reason to be suspicious"
To Mr. Howell "Software Advocate",
Your review of this product is essentially libel. You have not used it or tested it yourself. You do not understand the mechanism by which the device works. Based on your review, you have a poor understanding of physics in general. First of all, the electromagnetic spectrum includes radio frequencies; radio waves are electromagnetic waves. The device would radiate energy, but the two coils would also produce magnetic fields. Each coil is in a solenoid shape.
You give steel as an example of a shielding material, but copper is a better shielding material than steel because of its higher conductivity. This implies that the device does not achieve the conditioning effect primarily with radio waves. Instead it is likely that the conditioning effect in the water is caused by the magnetic fields generated by the coils. The magnetic field can exist inside the pipe whether it is made of copper, PVC, or steel (stainless, galvanized, etc.). Since steel is a ferromagnetic material, it will have a different permeability depending on the specific alloy, which can change the strength of the magnetic field.
Your comparison to some old TV show is completely misleading and irrelevant. I suggest you get a university level physics book or an electrical engineering book on electromagnetics to educate yourself on basic electromagnetic theory. Most importantly, actually test the product yourself before leaving such a negative review.
By Katherine S. Reschke
I was rather skeptical of this product but was convinced by the reviews to give it a go. First installation is really easy - just make sure you go correctly clockwise or anticlockwise as explained in the instructions. My kettle proves that this product works - I used to have white flakes in it every time I emptied it out and now they are no longer there. I live in an area with hard water and as I can't bear to lug around the bags of heavy salt for the softener that is already in place I was going through appliances at a scary rate. Thank goodness for this easy, cheap and effective solution.
By Gary D. Howell (Southern California)
I was all set to buy one of these units, until I re-read the manufacturer's theory of operation and then rationalized why some reviewers stated that this device didn't meet their expectations. Here are some possible reasons.
The external wires are described as antennas. Both the installation pictures and the installation manual indicate that the antenna leads are open-ended and don't form a closed current loop. Thus, unlike other electronic water softeners, this device is not a basic electro-magnet. When you read "electro-magnetic" in the description, do not think of this device as an electronic equivalent to the permanent magnet devices that clamp onto the water pipe. The magnetism created by Clearwave is much, much weaker than that.
Instead of coupling energy to the water supply by using a basic electro-magnet, this device relies on radio frequency (RF) energy.
The reason that varied results are being reported by reviewers may be due to how the RF is affected by application differences. The material content of the pipe makes a difference (steel vs. plastic vs. copper) in how efficiently the energy is transferred (the useful energy is combating against parasitic counterforces such as reflectivity, permeability, electrical conductivity and stray capacitance). These counterforces vary depending on the pipe's material.
The diameter of the pipe is also a factor (albeit to a lesser extent), as the length of the antenna wire provided with this device was optimally tuned for a specific diameter of pipe. More or less turns of the antenna wire around a different diameter of pipe de-tunes the optimum performance of this device.
Because of the above, I'm tending to favor the type of electronic water softener where both ends of the pipe wrap wire connect back to the device, thus forming a very basic electro-magnet (examples: the Little Plumber on Amazon.com, or the Vitasalus). It is my belief that the electro-magnet could be powered, such that the parasitic counterforces would have less of an effect; so I'm more likely to get optimum performance with less dependency on pipe material or diameter.
There is much debate on Internet blogs if this technology works. No matter which device type I eventually decide on, I'll have to be very objective when assessing its effectiveness; and not wishing too hard for the system to work, as exemplified by the below:
During the early days of television, a TV show director in Britain wanted to demonstrate the human psyche. He posed as a technician and joined in with a TV cooking show. He said that new technology called SmellaVision had just been installed at the studio; which would allow the viewers to enjoy the cooking smells coming out of the speaker of their TV sets. He directed the audience to get close to their speakers to test the system. He then asked everyone to call in with the results; because the studio wanted to ensure that the new signal was being broadcast to all neighborhoods. Just over 25% of the callers announced that they could smell the food cooking.
By Jesus Patino Ruiz
It works very fast and is to easy to install
We feel the diference in about tree days. The skin more soft and without itch, less soap to get more foam, the clothes more soft, and I hope as they said the scale in the pipes have be reduced with the time.
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