:HistericalSmiley:thanks, Janine, that was very helpful!!:HistericalSmiley:
It's one of the new water conditioning systems where there is no salt needed etc. I doesn't 'soften' water since minerals are left intact... but it does 'something' ( has to do with the pos/neg ions using magnetic field or some such thing...I have to go back to chemistry/physics class :blink

whereby there is supposed to be no scale build up to harm pipes etc. Supposed to have the benefit of no buying/lugging salt, maintinence etc. as with 'traditional' softeners. Supposedly, Walmart has these in their facilities as well as some other large corps.
I'm a skeptic so just curious.