Kind Water SystemsE-2000 Whole House Salt-Free Water Softener
Salt-free scale control plus sediment at 15 GPM, with no carbon stage and therefore no chlorine reduction.
$1,353
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Usability
Usability
The E-2000 is aimed at a household whose complaint is scale on the glassware and the water heater, not the taste at the tap. Its strongest attribute is what it avoids: no salt bags, no brine discharge, no electricity, no drain, and a wall bracket instead of two floor tanks, which matters if the utility room is already full. Hardness tolerance is high at 1,282 PPM or 75 grains per gallon, and it holds a full 15 GPM. The weakest attribute is that it is the only Kind city-water system with no carbon block, so chlorine, chloramine and organic chemistry pass straight through and its certifications drop to NSF/ANSI 61 and 372, both of which are materials safety listings and neither of which is a performance claim about anything. Buyers should also understand what salt-free conditioning does and does not do: it reduces adhesion of scale, which Kind quotes at 88 percent, but hardness minerals remain in the water, so a hardness test after installation will read the same as before. Anyone expecting the slippery feel of true soft water will be disappointed and should look at the S-650 instead. What is being traded away is chlorine reduction and genuine hardness removal, in exchange for the lowest-maintenance scale control Kind makes.
- No salt, no brine tank, no drain line and zero wastewater
- Handles up to 1,282 PPM or 75 grains per gallon of hardness
- Full 15 GPM flow on 1 in NPT, wall-mounted with no floor tanks
- Needs no electricity, so it keeps working through a power cut
- Lifetime limited warranty plus a 120-day satisfaction guarantee
- No carbon stage at all, so chlorine, chloramine and taste are unaddressed
- Certified only to NSF/ANSI 61 and 372, both materials listings rather than performance standards
- Conditioning does not remove hardness, so a post-install hardness test reads unchanged
- Does not produce the soft-water feel buyers of salt softeners expect
- Costs more than the E-1000 while filtering less
The E-2000 is a two-stage wall-mounted system pairing a 5-micron pleated sediment cartridge with salt-free conditioning media. It treats scale by crystallising hardness minerals so they will not adhere, rather than removing them by ion exchange, so nothing about the water tests softer afterwards. Rated to 15 GPM on 1 in NPT with no electricity, no brine tank and no wastewater, and handles up to 75 grains per gallon of hardness. There is no carbon stage, so chlorine and taste are untouched.
Additional information
Specification: Kind Water Systems E-2000 Whole House Salt-Free Water Softener
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