I got the Blue Works LPH40-B T.... It looks exactly like a Hayward Aqua Rite. A friend of mine used it last summer. He put it in brand new and he loved it, but after opening his fiberglass pool this year he noticed little black spots on his pool. He took pictures and went to the pool store to ask what the spots were.... naturally they told him it was coming from the salt water system..... He took it off and changed his pool back to a chlorine tablet feeder. He did this all before he asked me if I was interested in buying the salt system... I told him the pool store told him that so he would have to start buying stuff from them again, and he should find out what the real problem was, but he said he was just going to leave the tablet dispenser. So I got a lightly used SWG for less than half of what it cost new.
It has a separate flow sensor that screws into a tee. What is the advantage of having the cell mounted vertical?
None besides ease of install with less 90s and couplings.
Oh OK... Thanks! Was going to install it today, but I am having a hard time finding a union to fit the salt cell. It has different threads than a standard union from Lowes.The guy I bout them from cut them off flush so cant just put a coupling in.
well after 2 trips to Lowes with no luck I got in touch with Blue Works. Even though they have a warehouse in the same town i live in I was told that they did not have the unions at that warehouse, so I had to pay via PayPal and should receive the pieces I need on Wednesday. My question now is will it be OK to go ahead and put the salt in my pool. I am currently hauling eighteen 40-lb. bags of salt around in the back of my explorer. I need my explorer for work tomorrow, and I really do not want to have to unload it, and then load it back up again on Wednesday to take down to the pool.
Oh yes. Add away. Many people report their kids love swimming in the diamond crystals as they dissovle (harmlessly). Supposedly the immediate water around them is colder too thanks to science. Aim low though when mixing. Let it mix good (a day or 2) and test again. Its easy to overshoot and not easy to drain.
Added 12 bags of salt. Salt level is at about 3200. I took your advice and plumbed the SWG cell in the vertical, and put the flow switch where the tab feeder was (pic Attached). I am going to wire her up tomorrow and turn her on.... Hopefully If everything goes right I will be free from buying liquid chlorine every few weeks!!!
Got her wired up and everything is working great. We had about 6” of rain here the night before last. (What a darn mess that was) so I had to backwash a lot to get the water level back down to where it should be. I added another bag of salt and now the Test strips show salt level at 3020 but the SWG display says 3500. Should I trust what the SWG says now that I have it hooked up, and just forget about the strips?
Yes. The Taylor 1766 kit is accurate. The SWG is less accurate but still better than strips. The only reason to care is if the cell isn’t happy with the level. If it’s on the low side and the cell is still happy, don’t ask questions. Just smile and move on.
