Well, don't feel bad. I would have done the same thing. When I lived in
Fairbanks, AK I had a device that measured the TDS. Fortunately I did
not plan to get a water softener, but if I had, and found the same TDS,
I would have complained to the vendor of the water softener, and of
course would have been embarrassed by my ignorance.
I guess the calcium and magnesium ions are replaced by the sodium ion,
which results in water-soluble sodium carbonate? But if Sodium carbonate
is water soluble, is it still a dissolved solid?
Allen
On 2/21/2013 3:58 PM, brian wrote:
I'm sure this has been discussed but I did not find it when I did a
search. I used a digital TDS sensor to determine if my ten year old
house softener was working correctly. I'd been seeing some green
powdery stuff around some faucets. The powder comes from me not
cleaning as often as I should and is from the copper plumbing. After
the TDS sensor tells me the water coming from the softener is just as
hard as the water going in I replaced it and still got the same
readings. Well, dummy me, TDS will be the same from artificially
softened water since the calcium and magnesium ions are simply
replaced with salt! I replaced a perfectly good softener. A hardness
strip test confirms my new softener is working and the TDS readings
are the same. Incidentally, the TDS is around 148.
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