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Water-King offers specifiers and installers an easy to install, maintenance free, non-chemical alternative to traditional hard water treatments. For sizing and location guidance, please read the information below or call our technical helpline on 01608 811707

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Where to Locate Units?

In general we recommend installing Water-King as close as possible to where water is being heated and scale is most likely to form. This ensures that continuous treatment is delivered to the area where it’s needed most. In practice this normally means installing a Water-King on the cold water supply within the same plant room as the water heater.

Where point-of-use electric water heaters are installed and hot water demand is sporadic, such as in an office, it’s best to fit a dedicated unit to each water heater or cluster of heaters.

Signal Propagation

The signal generated by Water-King is continuously transmitted through the water, both upstream (back signal) and downstream, irrespective of flow. This means that appliances upstream of the unit can also be treated, although the signal won’t work as effectively through pumps and storage cisterns. Water-King units should be fitted after pumps and tanks to ensure signal transmission to downstream services.

When installed tactically in this way Water-King will deliver continuous treatment to downstream services, ensuring all of the water is treated all of the time. This is unlike alternative technologies that only treat water as it passes through the device, relying on a temporary signal memory to treat downstream services.
When installed tactically in this way Water-King will deliver continuous treatment to downstream services, ensuring all of the water is treated all of the time. This is unlike alternative technologies that only treat water as it passes through the device, relying on a temporary signal memory to treat downstream services.

Cold Water Storage Tanks

Cold water storage tanks can cause discontinuity in the signal transmission resulting in decay of the clustering effect generated by Water-King. This problem is overcome by installing Water-King on the outlet pipes and utilising a ‘back signal’ to treat the stored water.

Pumps

Pumps cause a significant reduction in the effectiveness of Water-King so, in general, wherever there is a pump there should be a Water-King installed downstream.

Booster Pumps

In practice Booster Pumps will often be located immediately downstream of a cold water storage tank. Installing a Water-King after both will ensure continuous signal transmission to the downstream services.

Hot Water Secondary Return Pumps

Cold water storage tanks can cause discontinuity in the signal transmission resulting in decay of the clustering effect generated by Water-King. This problem is overcome by installing Water-King on the outlet pipes and utilising a ‘back signal’ to treat the stored water.

Re-Circulating Systems

For Re-Circulating Systems where water is constantly circulated, such as swimming pools, the Water-King should be fitted downstream of the pump, as close as possible to where the heating process is occurring.

Irrigation Systems

For Irrigation Systems install a Water-King after the pump. On high pressure master lines we recommend installing a Sentry unit to each line.

Heat Exchangers and Modular Tank Heaters

Where a pump is installed on the cold water inlet side of a Heat Exchanger, such as on a plate frame heat exchanger or Modular Tank Heater like the Andrews MAXXflo, it is more effective to treat the hot outlet side. The signal from Water-King will travel in both directions, treating both the heat exchanger upstream and buffer vessels downstream.

Cold Water Supply to Mixing Valves and Showers

Much of the scale formed in these fittings is precipitated from cold water. Even when a conventional softener is installed to treat only the hot water services it is common to find scale forming in mixing valves, shower heads and taps. Fitting a Water-King on the cold water services will reduce this scaling.

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