Some pictures would be great - just so I can see what the equipment looks like.....
How does SWG do in cooler climates?
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Saturn94
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- Mar 11, 2015
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- Pool Size
- 20000
- Surface
- Vinyl
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Hayward Aqua Rite (T-15)
Control Panel
Cell
Equipment Pad (Control Panel is white box on the wall, cell is in front of the filter. There’s a flow safety switch just to the left of the cell)
Thanks! I have no wall nearby so not sure about where the control box would be mounted. I do have a wooden post but it's already pretty filled up with the timer box electrical switches.
You are correct that you would convert to chlorine first, and then to salt. You are also correct that if you aren’t getting enough production from the SWG that you would supplement with bleach but in the Northeast you will have zero problems getting enough FC from a properly sized unit.
you could add another post for the controller if it didn’t fit on the existing post.
you could add another post for the controller if it didn’t fit on the existing post.
Couldn't one of these be installed right in the pipe I have coming out of the heater?
Most interesting. Thanks again to all for the helpful replies. I'm liking this option. How often must you lower the pH? And SWG works equally well with DE or sand?
That’s exactly where it will go. Your pic looked like the in/out pipes to the heater *might* be too close to fit the SWG. They will just alter the pipe slightly if it doesn’t have the clearance.
Every pool is different of course, Most are weekly ish. Some bi-weekly.
Saturn94
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- Mar 11, 2015
- 1,864
- Pool Size
- 20000
- Surface
- Vinyl
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Hayward Aqua Rite (T-15)
mguzzy
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Once I got the salt to the correct salinity for the SWG I only have to add a few bags a year to offset the dilution from the winter rains... That is the only way the salt gets out, is by overflow of water from rain and splash out. Any evaporation only remove water, not the salt. I just dump it in the shallow end and by the time I sweep it to the deep end its dissolved. There is more than one member that still chlorinates with liquid and has added enough salt for the feel (up to 2000ppm).
For your info
Ocean salinity is 34,000ppm
Your tears ~7000ppm
your SWG pool ~3400ppm
So salt pool is 1/10th the salinity of the ocean and half that of your tears.
For your info
Ocean salinity is 34,000ppm
Your tears ~7000ppm
your SWG pool ~3400ppm
So salt pool is 1/10th the salinity of the ocean and half that of your tears.
mguzzy
Gold Supporter
From the pic in your other thread You have lots of room for the cell and I think you can put the controller on the same post if you move the other box down a bit.
- Mar 5, 2020
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- Pool Size
- 66000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Astral Viron V35
The chlorination cycle itself is pH neutral. SWG chlorine generation increases pH and chlorine use decreases pH. Just the same as with adding bleach. By just adding the chlorine that is being used, pH remains constant.
What's different with a SWG is that the electrolysis also creates hydrogen gas which you will see bubbling (not really bubbling, more "perling") out of your return jets. That adds a little aeration to the aeration that is already happening in your pool now through return jets creating turbulence, water features, splashing when swimming, just through the water surface, etc. Aeration, which triggers CO2 out-gassing, is what increases pH.
In some pools, the extra hydrogen aeration is negligible compared to other aeration paths, others might see a bit more.
If people are having problems with pH-rise, the root cause is usually not the SWG, but things like high TA.
mguzzy
Gold Supporter
So are you ready to jump the fence! Converting to an SWG was the best home owners decision I ever made. You can do it woop woop woop!Thanks for more great info!! It all is so useful.
- Mar 5, 2020
- 3,221
- Pool Size
- 66000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Astral Viron V35
I don't know, but I am smelling here a business man who doesn't want to lose a customer buying expensive baca products.
Here's the thing.....they virtually have a monopoly in my area - by far the largest dealer / installer around. I don't trust their advice anywhere near as much as I did back then. I don't go there anymore but order certain supplies. They no longer carry any Baquacil products that I use, and so I get those at another (considerably smaller) store and operation.
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