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Limescale treatment and water softening: what’s the difference?

A salt-based water softener reduces water hardness through ion exchange. MEDIAGON is a physical alternative for tackling limescale without removing calcium and magnesium.

The two solutions use different technologies and modes of action: a softener reduces hardness, while MEDIAGON aims to limit limescale build-up without softening the water.

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How MEDIAGON works

MEDIAGON is fitted around the pipe: water continues to flow through the existing pipe, without passing through an additional device in the circuit.

Its operating principle uses specific alloys and static fields, with the aim of encouraging minerals to crystallise within the water rather than form deposits that adhere to surfaces.

Calcium and magnesium remain present. MEDIAGON targets limescale build-up rather than reducing water hardness.

The Patented Alloy: The Passive Generator

The system requires no electrical connection.Its technological core is a specific precision alloy (aluminum, copper, and silicon). During its machining, a thermal treatment and molecular pressing permanently fix polarized micro-domains.The casing then acts as a perpetual emitter of multipolar static fields, using exclusively its own surface potential.

Dielectric Induction: Contactless Action

The device is fixed directly to the water supply pipe, without cutting or interfering with the plumbing.The static lines of force pass through the tube wall by induction. The millimeter-precise adjustment of the half-shells guarantees the absence of an air gap, ensuring optimal energy transfer to the moving fluid.Whether the pipe is made of copper, steel, stainless steel, or polymer materials (multilayer, PEX).

Homogeneous Nucleation: The Active Field

In classic hard water, calcium and carbonate ions are isolated by a thin protective layer of water and precipitate abruptly upon contact with a thermal shock to form encrusting calcite.When passing through the device's static field, this barrier is subjected to an electrostatic force that weakens it.Freed, the ions associate directly in the heart of the water stream, without touching the walls.

Transformation: From Calcite to Aragonite

Forced to associate in a moving flow under kinetic disturbance, the atoms do not have time to form compact calcite. They freeze in a metastable state: aragonite.This crystalline structure takes the form of friable micro-needles.Unable to agglomerate, this microscopic powder remains in suspension and is naturally flushed away with the water. The efficiency of the heat exchangers is thus preserved.

Curative Effect: Passive Descaling

The treatment induces a curative action on installations that are already scaled.On the one hand, the gentle mechanical erosion of the aragonite micro-needles sweeps away the old scale.On the other hand, the modification of the crystalline balance of the water flow breaks the cohesion of the old calcite. It loses its adhesion, cracks, and is gradually eliminated without the release of CO₂ micro-bubbles or alteration of the pH.

What this approach changes

Minerals retained: calcium and magnesium remain in the water; MEDIAGON is not intended to reduce hardness.

Autonomous operation: no salt, no regeneration cycle and no electrical connection for the device.

What to know before choosing

Minerals remain in the water and may leave marks as it evaporates, especially on shower screens and taps.

The aim is to make deposits less adherent and easier to clean, helping to limit the use of descaling products. MEDIAGON treatment itself adds no chemicals to the water.

Routine cleaning of surfaces and the maintenance specified for your equipment must still be carried out.

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The TÜV Südwest comparative test

MEDIAGON underwent a comparative test focused on limescale prevention, conducted over fourteen months in Holzhausen, Germany.

Two homes compared: one was equipped with MEDIAGON; the other was not.
Fourteen months of monitoring: three interim inspections were carried out during the assessment.
Practical observations: at the end of the test, deposits on the heating elements in the equipped installation were soft and crumbly. No visible limescale deposits were reported inside its water heater.

These observations relate to the conditions of the test presented.

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MEDIAGON device warranty: 10 years

Warranty terms are specified in your CO2H2O offer.

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