Pool Maid SWG

[FramerTim]

Wondering if anyone has heard of a SWG made by "Pool Maid"

S14/120/18VTX self-cleaning 120V 21,000-26,000 gallons

They are made and sold in South Africa and I found a website there that sells them for 5000 Rand (whatever the heck that is)

Anyway I bought one (new) on Ebay for $41.00 and was hoping someone could tell me something about it.

 

[jblizzle]

For $41, I would not hold out much hope for it being very effective. The metals required in the cell are likely worth way more than that.

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[jblizzle]

Was looking at the website ... if it does work, that is an incredible deal. According to their website, the output should be around 0.96 lb of chlorine a day which is kind of average for a SWG. If your pool is around 15k gallons or smaller, then it should be adequate.

You are not likely to find anyone here that has bought a South African piece of pool equipment though.

 

[FramerTim]

I have been using an Intex SWG for a couple of years and it really hasn't done the job too well. My pool is just over 8000 gallons so it should chlorinate the heck out of it. I thought maybe I would get lucky and find some S. African ex-pat that may have used one. I was thinking that it would go real high on ebay, but i am sure that a lot of people might be scared of electrical issues or pipe sizes that didn't match up with US stuff. i think I got a steal. I will let you know if it turns out that way.