Hello! My name is Scott, and I very much look forward to chatting with many of you and making a tiny dent in my huge ignorance of all things pool. I will indeed read the newbie material.
Am a native Midwesterner, an engineer, now living part-time in the US and most-time in the village of Sanur on the Bali Sea in Indonesia. We are 12 time-zones ahead of the East Coast and 6 degrees south of the equator, so a pool-heater is not in my future.
I've "built" (drawn a bunch of pictures, wrote a lot of checks) a 40K gal, mostly-rectangular pool with some backwards stuff, some normal stuff, and some new-fangled stuff. The water is from a 4-meter-deep bore-well in the center of the land (might give some an idea of how dangerous it is to empty the pool...). The water was tested before and after in a modern lab and is clean and hard. Another, deeper bore-well draws salt-water slowly, though haven't used it much. I think we added 750 kg of what passes for clean salt here, and now use an old-school 3-foot sand filter with twice-weekly pool-service. The pool is surrounded by two enormous trees, one mango, the other jackfruit. Given trees, a menagerie of jungle-tropical critters/duff/pollens, and sand-filter, the pool's never super crystal clear, like I'd like, but it's clean and functional.
It's mainly solar-powered via 33 US-made solar panels and a Taiwanese solar pump-inverter that constantly blows up its ceramic resistors (alas). When the inverter does work, it's sweet: basically, it creates a solar powered variable speed pump; the watt-hour reduction is staggering.
We've two 2-hp redundant generic pool pumps but had intended to get a set of Hayward variable-speed pumps (screwed up). The pool is clad in hand-cut (!) tiles of six different types of local stone with an infinity edge of black volcanic rock. It's got a BSV chlorinator (a huge chlorinator-manufacturer in Barcelona that no one's ever heard of, yet sells to municipal pools around the world). However, BSV's really hard to get service from, so I'm hoping to jury-rig redundant chlorinators, one from Hayward and one from a closer operation in Australia.
SO, if you've made it this far, here's a question that's been like a pebble in my shoe for a while: Both the BSV and the AIS chlorinators are used globally and have clear cell casings. I've found that essential for maintaining and servicing the devices. Hayward's world-renowned but, crazily to me, has an opaque white cell casing. Why? Is there a way around that without voiding any warranty I might be lucky enough to pry out of some vendor?
Anyway, thrilled to find this site, and as they say here, selamat kolam renang!
Am a native Midwesterner, an engineer, now living part-time in the US and most-time in the village of Sanur on the Bali Sea in Indonesia. We are 12 time-zones ahead of the East Coast and 6 degrees south of the equator, so a pool-heater is not in my future.
I've "built" (drawn a bunch of pictures, wrote a lot of checks) a 40K gal, mostly-rectangular pool with some backwards stuff, some normal stuff, and some new-fangled stuff. The water is from a 4-meter-deep bore-well in the center of the land (might give some an idea of how dangerous it is to empty the pool...). The water was tested before and after in a modern lab and is clean and hard. Another, deeper bore-well draws salt-water slowly, though haven't used it much. I think we added 750 kg of what passes for clean salt here, and now use an old-school 3-foot sand filter with twice-weekly pool-service. The pool is surrounded by two enormous trees, one mango, the other jackfruit. Given trees, a menagerie of jungle-tropical critters/duff/pollens, and sand-filter, the pool's never super crystal clear, like I'd like, but it's clean and functional.
It's mainly solar-powered via 33 US-made solar panels and a Taiwanese solar pump-inverter that constantly blows up its ceramic resistors (alas). When the inverter does work, it's sweet: basically, it creates a solar powered variable speed pump; the watt-hour reduction is staggering.
We've two 2-hp redundant generic pool pumps but had intended to get a set of Hayward variable-speed pumps (screwed up). The pool is clad in hand-cut (!) tiles of six different types of local stone with an infinity edge of black volcanic rock. It's got a BSV chlorinator (a huge chlorinator-manufacturer in Barcelona that no one's ever heard of, yet sells to municipal pools around the world). However, BSV's really hard to get service from, so I'm hoping to jury-rig redundant chlorinators, one from Hayward and one from a closer operation in Australia.
SO, if you've made it this far, here's a question that's been like a pebble in my shoe for a while: Both the BSV and the AIS chlorinators are used globally and have clear cell casings. I've found that essential for maintaining and servicing the devices. Hayward's world-renowned but, crazily to me, has an opaque white cell casing. Why? Is there a way around that without voiding any warranty I might be lucky enough to pry out of some vendor?
Anyway, thrilled to find this site, and as they say here, selamat kolam renang!
. Not really sure about the cell casing. My Circupool cell is the same way. 
