Continue with chlorine bottles or switch to SWG?

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With the high prices of liquid chlorine, it is either time for me to switch to a SWG pool or leave the pool closed and covered. For the last couple of years, we have used the pool only 9 or 10 times. By the time the pool gets warm enough to swim in, within 2 or 3 weeks the pool is too hot to swim in here in SE Oklahoma. SWG will not help with a pool that is too hot to swim in.

The pool company that closes my pool tells me to leave it covered. We live lake front so we have a problem with water moccasins getting in the pool. They are so much fun to fish out of the pool (vinyl liner is slippery)!

How many of you have switched to a SWG pool because of high chlorine costs? Pros and Cons?

Pros and cons of leaving it covered (vinyl liner)?

Thanks for any advice.
 
My SWG creates about 1000 jugs of 10% worth of FC. I cannot put a price on not lugging 1000 jugs, but it would be high. I can however put a price on the 1000 jugs. $6160 at Walmart.

Make bank while *not* lugging1000 jugs. Fight me. 😁
 
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So, I need to buy a "Cell" plus, #? bags of salt....anything else?

Cell would last about 2 years?

Any estimates on installation costs?

If the water wasn't so hot from June through September we would swim more. We are just wasting money if no one is swimming.

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I saw one SWG unit that looks like one piece with an electrical plug. Another model was 2 parts with one part inserted into pvc pipes and a controller hanging on the wall and plugged in. Any preference or pros and cons?
 
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pypeke said:
So, I need to buy a "Cell" plus, #? bags of salt....anything else?
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A timer so that the cell cannot run outside the pump runtime window. I run 24/7 so don't need the timer.
pypeke said:
Cell would last about 2 years?
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10k hours 'on' for most models, supposedly 15k for circupool. You'll use you hours sooner in a longer sesson, but you'll use proportionately more chlorine of any form as well so it's a wash.
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Any estimates on installation costs?
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$500 for a handyman type install, up to double the price online if purchased and installed from a local poolstore.

pypeke said:
If the water wasn't so hot from June through September we would swim more. We are just wasting money if no one is swimming.
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It needs to be kept sanitary either way.
 
pypeke said:
Cell would last about 2 years?
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No, I was just creating an FC equivalency. You do not run your cell at 100%.
The cell is rated for 15,000 hours at 100%.
If you ran at 50%, that would be 30,000 RUNNING hours.

Do you have automation?
What is the specific model # of the Pentair pump?
 
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