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TH, you can just let the water conditioner do its mechanical filtration. Add salt if you want to continue Ca/Mg exchange or just let it run without Na regeneration. ... But since your spouse's third trimester will doubtless already jeopardize your life expectancy, I wouldn't do this.

Yeah, i already made the mistake a couple of times asking "but why do you...?" and got "BECAUSE I'M PREGNANT DAMMIT!" ;)

(By the way, it is NOT considered funny to look surprised when your spouse says this and remark "And I just thought you were eating a little extra lately!". :o )

I thought about leaving the softener in place, except I can get about $100 for it used to people in the county still on well water. Not to mention the 3x3 corner area in the garage currently occupied by said softener would come in handy as we are still trying to shovel almost 5000 square feet of stuff from both of our old houses into my 1900 square foot place. Plus I was hoping the carbon block in these filters would do enough smell/taste improvement and chlorine reduction on the water that I wouldnt need a brita anymore. I'm spending about $100 on brita filters a year, and filter replacements on these large size inlines is about the same cost. When I'm dealing with a baby AND the three dogs and three cats feeding and watering, more convenience will be king!

I havent been able to find anything about pressure loss except that the systems dont want more than 100psi, which I dont think many water systems come close to. What I cant find is the 'drag'. I read 35 google search pages, but the clutter from 'snake oil water treatment' "solutions" noise drowns out the signal of actual data.

Instinctively I think the 1" "big can" with a filter element about a foot high and 5-6" across will give me way less drag than the 3/4" one thats about 9" high and 3" across.

Only funny part is NOBODY stocks 1" to 1" male to male copper joiners. They have them for gas pipe and in galvanized. I'll have to do some copper sweating to get that and I dont feeeeeel like it. 3/4" parts are commonplace however.

So if I could sneak by with the 3/4" one, its cheaper, the filters are half the price, and I dont need to break out my torch and solder.