On Sat, 09 Oct 2004 23:40:52 +0100, John Aston wrote:


Ed Sirett wrote in message
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The problem is that a water softener is a _huge_ restriction on the flow
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with any form of direct HW systems it will be the bottle neck.

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Is this your personal experience?

The Kinetico 2020c High Flow Softener has a service flow rate of 33 lpm and
a peak flow rate of 51 lpm. Providing that I use a suitably large pipe
diameter, is this really going to appreciably slow down my 30 lpm
supply?

Yes this is my diret experience at one site.
It would clearly not have been had they used the Kinetico High Flow unit
which I expect is a tad more pricy than a typical unit.


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