Electronic water pipe descaler.
Added 2018-12-03 04:05:51 +0000 UTCI've always wondered what's in these, so it was nice when a chap called Marc sent me one to look at.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnahQPSKCcA
I even used the oscilloscope to get a look at what's actually coming out of the antenna ports. It's intriguing, but the output circuitry is disappointingly simple. It does have a "computer" and it does sweep the frequency.
Comments
IF it works, and that is highly unlikely, where does the scale go??? In your pie-hole, that's where!!!!
Chuck Kirchner
2018-12-05 21:20:30 +0000 UTCi think it is only good as a TV or movie prop
God 420
2018-12-05 15:57:58 +0000 UTCI put this product in the same category as Power Factor Optimisers. It sounds good in theory, and it looks good, but it's completely pointless.
Gadgetman
2018-12-04 02:13:54 +0000 UTCNow there's an idea.
Big Clive
2018-12-03 22:32:19 +0000 UTCJon Eakes tested one on his TV show. It worked... a little.
David E. Blankenship
2018-12-03 21:10:52 +0000 UTCWell, wind the wires around a whiskey tumbler (or bottle) then and let your brother decide if that device has any effect?
2018-12-03 20:32:08 +0000 UTCI have had one fitted for decades. My view is that mine does have an effect. I live in a hard water area and my electric shower heater used to have a build up of limescale over the years and eventually become inefficient / stop working. No such issues since fitting one of these. However they may not all be made the same e.g. poor quality copies and I would agree that the science behind it is not proven and it does nothing re the quality or taste of the water.
John Russell
2018-12-03 19:13:15 +0000 UTCThe light show is really important in devices like this. Like the OBD car boosters that pretend to increase the performance of your car by "remapping" the engine control. In reality they only monitor for activity on the car's data networks and then put on a lightshow.
Big Clive
2018-12-03 14:07:20 +0000 UTCLooks to me like half the electronics in the thing are just to make the LEDs work...
Lostngone
2018-12-03 08:22:31 +0000 UTCTheoreticly you could rewrite my program to use it to copy this device
Leon Schutte
2018-12-03 07:19:12 +0000 UTCAbout half a year ago i wrote a programm for the pic 16f628a that generates a sweep signal in small steps. You can define the sweep range and frequency inside the programm throught a table. The original programm sweeps from 100khz to 200khz because i wanted to use it to test the resonant frequency of hitag rfid tags. It didn't work very well but it kind of worked. I even had a switch to interrupt the sweeping so it stays longer on one frequency.
Leon Schutte
2018-12-03 07:17:44 +0000 UTCAny chance you could stick up a recording of the audio output?
John Carr
2018-12-03 05:38:38 +0000 UTC
