Just bought a house and it has a pool. Awesome! Looking at getting it switched over to a salt water chlorinator. Some pool places are recommending Astral v25 with bluetooth and others are suggesting a pool controls swc25. I have no idea on what to get. All I know is that I'll be out of pocket either $1400 or $1600 by the end of the week. Any suggestions?
Salt Water Chlorinator Installation
Nikovegna on 05/11/2018 - 12:12
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I heard one guy talking about it. it's that good is it?
free chlorine level can be run lower, less smell
come out feeling closer to fresh water than other types.
I don't feel need for shower.
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Smell is more a function of chloramines than chlorine level - usually a sign of a "dirty" / underchlorinated pool.
Electrolytic cells produce chlorine with varying sanitizing efficacy depending on the ph of the water. The electrolysis will on its own tend to increase ph and reduce the sanitizing efficacy. The key to maintaining well sanitized water with low chlorine is to carefully monitor/regulate ph, usually by regular addition of acid, and also by having will buffered water. Google is your friend.
Had a quick look at this. Looks like it'd be an expensive conversion. Need to replace all the sand in your filter with glass, and then also buy a special chlorinator and special minerals. Hardly seems worth it.
It's good, but initial cost is very high - a bag of MagnaSalt costs around $40. You will need about 25 bags to start with and then 5 bags a year.
how long have you had it?
being only 1 year on, i have recently added the first two bags. i guess the installers added more than enough.
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I converted our pool to salt a year back. Much better than fresh water pool previously, much less maintenance.
Our pool is 55,000L. Dumped 200KG of salt in there and the pool guy that was helping me sold me an old chlorinator he had lying around for $200. Its not fancy, but does the job. I have the bathe the cell in hrdocholoric acid every couple of months to get rid of the calcium scaling on it, but i think that's not the chlorinator's fault, more the hardness of my water.One thing i've noticed, to watch out for with chlorinators, is how much replacement cells cost. Some models can only take very expensive proprietary replacement cells.
We have a Zodiac El-1 installed in our 55000l pool which we are pretty happy with. Has a self clean function so it is very little maintenance and I have not needed to add any additional chlorine since it's been installed which was over 12 months ago (with my old compu-chlor unit, I would have to periodically add chlorine). In addition it has a number of extra features including a built in timer, battery backup and a salt indicator. They stopped making this model but it has been replaced with the Zodiac Ei2 which is essentially the same unit and does up to 70,000l as well.
Salt water chlorinator is usually called the cell. Get a self cleaning cell. You should still check the water every week, I have a problem with chlorine going too high in winter, when it gets too high it damages the pool and kreepy krawley.
salt?
have you looked at alternatives?
granted we've only got 12 months experience, but our magnapool is awesome.
http://magnapool.com/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI95qnn4y83gIVBa6WCh0-…
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