- Jun 5, 2013
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Curious your thoughts. I'm sold on the convenience of salt water pools. Did the daily bleach routine for several years, but life got busy and salt is my preferred chlorine method now.
3 years ago I installed a Circupool SJ-40 system for my 14k gallon pool. Year one was amazing. Short run times, great chlorine production, life is good. Year 2 started out with no chlorine production, customer support was good, they shipped out a new control panel, and the season went fine. Year 3 I had to crank the thing to almost 24/7 runtime to keep chlorine levels stable. I had passed overnight FC tests, the output was just weak. Assuming the cell is showing its age, I'm looking at replacing the cell or system.
Going into year 4, should I attempt to buy a pro-rated warranty cell from Circupool? Or perhaps move to the RJ series for $1150. I'm neither upset nor impressed by the SJ system I installed. It worked great for a season, then gave trouble. Perhaps I went too cheap? Perhaps I'll get several more years of manageable use from a new cell?
Curious other people's experiences. I'm not married to Circupool, but their DIY warranty coverage is nice. I can't find a pool guy local who will come anytime before the season is over.
3 years ago I installed a Circupool SJ-40 system for my 14k gallon pool. Year one was amazing. Short run times, great chlorine production, life is good. Year 2 started out with no chlorine production, customer support was good, they shipped out a new control panel, and the season went fine. Year 3 I had to crank the thing to almost 24/7 runtime to keep chlorine levels stable. I had passed overnight FC tests, the output was just weak. Assuming the cell is showing its age, I'm looking at replacing the cell or system.
Going into year 4, should I attempt to buy a pro-rated warranty cell from Circupool? Or perhaps move to the RJ series for $1150. I'm neither upset nor impressed by the SJ system I installed. It worked great for a season, then gave trouble. Perhaps I went too cheap? Perhaps I'll get several more years of manageable use from a new cell?
Curious other people's experiences. I'm not married to Circupool, but their DIY warranty coverage is nice. I can't find a pool guy local who will come anytime before the season is over.