ditttohead
Water systems designer, R&D
As stated earlier, Huffy, Cannondale. Yugo, Honda, you can make up your own comparison. Both are acceptable, and both have "Warranties". One company simply takes other companies designs and ideas, runs it to China to get the cheapest labor and material, makes a little effort to make sure they don't have a catastrophic failure, and if they do, haha, were in China... Sue us... I cant tell you how many times I heard that from companies when I was doing the claims with another company that focused their business on being the low price leader. Buy whatever you want, in fact, you should just get something from Home Depot, it is much lower cost than the Can, and in my opinion, you would be better served buy it rather than buying a knockoff.
Efficiency is a matter of settings. I can set any Fleck or Clack softener to use 16 gallons of water per regeneration, and to give you thousands of gallons of softened water, but I also know the water quality will suck, the resin will fail in a few years, and you will have lots more problems than if I installed a system and programmed it for slightly lowered efficiencies. All of these "Super efficient!" systems are for the most part a joke, a marketing scam and highly problematic. Most of the guys who have worked the field on this site remember the "Sensor" controllers, guaranteeing nearly 100% system efficiency, and about 2 years later, we bypassed the device to get rid of all the problems. I am currently working with a company in Europe who has the highest efficiency system I have ever seen, and they refuse to listen to my advice as to why their resin beds fail after 1 year in a small residential application. To me, the answer is obvious, but their "engineers" don't see it because it is not what it shows them on paper. A lack of field experience is an engineers worst enemy.
And in case you still haven't figured it out, due to potential lawsuits by companies that are too sensitive, most guys on this site will only give vague opinions about the quality of components. You keep going back to a device that has been stated over and over to be less preferable to another device. We are not going to force you to buy a good high quality USA made system, you can buy the Chinese knock off if you want, that is fine. But when it has problems, your support on this site will likely be silence as I doubt anyone on this site who offers up their time and free advice will want to bother wasting time discussing a cheap knock off.
Efficiency is a matter of settings. I can set any Fleck or Clack softener to use 16 gallons of water per regeneration, and to give you thousands of gallons of softened water, but I also know the water quality will suck, the resin will fail in a few years, and you will have lots more problems than if I installed a system and programmed it for slightly lowered efficiencies. All of these "Super efficient!" systems are for the most part a joke, a marketing scam and highly problematic. Most of the guys who have worked the field on this site remember the "Sensor" controllers, guaranteeing nearly 100% system efficiency, and about 2 years later, we bypassed the device to get rid of all the problems. I am currently working with a company in Europe who has the highest efficiency system I have ever seen, and they refuse to listen to my advice as to why their resin beds fail after 1 year in a small residential application. To me, the answer is obvious, but their "engineers" don't see it because it is not what it shows them on paper. A lack of field experience is an engineers worst enemy.
And in case you still haven't figured it out, due to potential lawsuits by companies that are too sensitive, most guys on this site will only give vague opinions about the quality of components. You keep going back to a device that has been stated over and over to be less preferable to another device. We are not going to force you to buy a good high quality USA made system, you can buy the Chinese knock off if you want, that is fine. But when it has problems, your support on this site will likely be silence as I doubt anyone on this site who offers up their time and free advice will want to bother wasting time discussing a cheap knock off.