Would that be a Chem connect dispener that feeds it the chlorine cause im looking at an 18×48 best way that has that
A chemical dispenser uses pucks or sticks to add chlorine to your water, you don't want that.
Here is the 30 second overview of pools and chlorine.
1) Pools need chlorine. It sanitizes the water.
2) You can get chlorine into a pool in a number of ways
- Using solid chlorine (called dichlor or trichlor)
- Using bleach
- Using a SWG (Salt Water Chlorine Generator)
- There are other even more esoteric methods that don't apply.
3) There is a thing called CYA (Cyanauratic Acid). You need a certain amount of this in your pool. It does three things
- Protects the chlorine from the sun. Without it, the sun would burn off the chlorine very quickly
- Makes the chlorine less harsh on your skin
- Makes the chlorine
less effective as a sanitizer (this is important to understand, like most things in life, CYA has a trade off).
4) There is a recommended level of CYA where it protects the chlorine and makes it less harsh, but does not nerf it so much that it cannot do it's job.
5) For the most part, CYA does not dissipate or get used up, the more you add, the more you will have in your water. The only way to get it out by dumping water and replacing it. (REREAD AND REMEMBER THIS)
6) For all practical purposes, all solid forms of chlorine (Tablets, sticks, granules) contain CYA. WHAT THIS MEANS IS THAT IF YOU KEEP USING SOLID CHLORINE YOUR CYA LEVEL IS GOING TO QUIKCLY GET TO A POINT WHERE IT TOTALLY NERFS THE CHLORINE, MAKING IT USELESS. - read that again, let it sink in. This is where a lot of pools get into a vicious cycle of shocking, algae outbreaks, and other nasty thing.
7) So, in this group, the recommendation is to not use solid chlorine as your primary source of adding chlorine to your pool. Your choices are
- Bleach, aka Liquid Chlorine.
- A SWG
Bleach is just bleach, you test your pool, you see how much you need, you measure that amount, and you add it. It is not hard, it is not that time consuming, but it is a daily task.
With a SWG generator you add salt to your pool (like table salt, but pure salt made for pools, don't buy the giant bag at Restaurant Depot). The SWG generates Chlorine from the salt, the chlorine does it's thing, and then reforms back into salt (that is very simplified). The SWG makes chlorine for you. Nothing has to be added once you get the salt in there. Once you have the amount of Cl per day you need dialed in (basically how many hours a day you have to run your SWG) there is not much to do for a steady state pool. No need to add chlorine.
There are other things going on that you will have to learn and test for (pH, TA, etc) and will have to add chemicals to balance. It is not as if with a SWG it means you never have to test or maintain your pool, but it removes one of the necessary daily tasks, and makes that maintenance a lot easier.