You are technically right that the water heater softens the water a bit by precipitating the minerals around the heating element and thereby removing them from the water. But that is energy inefficient and expensive, since you normally don’t use a water heater to soften your water but rather to get warm water. So putting another system in front of the heater that softens it first is better than replacing the heat element every so often.
Isn’t that exactly what a water heater does?
A water heater heats your water.
away with your fancy mumbo jumbo and wizard speak this here board is for regular talk
TIL
You are technically right that the water heater softens the water a bit by precipitating the minerals around the heating element and thereby removing them from the water. But that is energy inefficient and expensive, since you normally don’t use a water heater to soften your water but rather to get warm water. So putting another system in front of the heater that softens it first is better than replacing the heat element every so often.
no a water heater heats the water.
a watersoftener removes dissolved minerals from water
This one definitely did both.
Right but a water heater isn’t designed to remove minerals from water. Just to heat it.