Help me getr the truth about salt water swimming pool treatment w/o depending on the sellering merchants.?

Question

Everymerchant of the salt systems say theirs is best for any of many reasons. I want to install a salt water treatment system is it's better than the dhemical methods.

Answer 1

Some truths. All salt water pools still use chlorine. They utilize a salt chlorine generator. Chemically salt is sodium chloride. Sodium-salt Chloride-chlorine. All models basically are the same. They use a cell that the water passes through. The cell passes a light current through the water breaking the bond between the sodium and the chloride releasing chlorine. Salt water generators cause the pH to continually rise because the process creates carbon dioxide bubbles. This release of carbon dioxide aerates the water causing the pH rise. You still have to use all the same chemicals to treat all the other chemical factors in a swimming pool. The only thing these take care of is the chlorine level. They are very convenient because the chlorine level will remain steady and you dont have to constantly add chlorine. Chlorine is also much more expensive then salt. You just have to make sure you are keeping an eye on the pH and lower with muriatic acid when necessary.

Answer 2

A whole lot of marketing half truths and complete lies go into the things said about salt systems.

You seem to be concerned with chemicals but did you know the salt pool is a salty chlorine pool?  Yup!  And you have to use more chemicals to maintain them than a plain old chlorine pool.

Did they tell you about the maintenance you will be doing on a chlorine generator?  Do they tell you the damage salt does to your equipment and heater?

Do they tell you that it is an energy hog?

Do they tell you it only lasts 3 years?

If you buy a chlorine generator, do yourself a favor and purchase a salinity test kit.  I say this because the salinity indicators on the chlorine generators are inaccurate and you will need something to verify or likely disprove the reading saving you the problem of adding more salt to an otherwise nominal salinity level.

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