We got our Bullfrog R7L in late September of this year, my first hot tub. We love the tub. The jets, the quiet circulating pump, the simple controls, it all worked great. I did start having problems with the Frog@ease water care system when the water got cloudy. I dumped the water and decided to pay closer attention to PH and TA. I also ordered the EOS ozone generator parts with the thought that Frog@ease water care system might need a high end ozone generator to work. As the weeks passed, I kept adding more and more non-chlorine oxidizer to try to get the combined chlorine down from 15 to 20ppm. Free chlorine never got above .5 ppm. Then I start to get itching and spots on my calves and then the rest of my body. Then I did some more research and found the TFP website. I saw I was not the only one to have problems with Frog@ease. I changed the water again and I have been using the TFP dichlor/bleach system for a couple of weeks and it seems to be working well. I don’t know if it was the non-chlorine shock or bacteria that caused the itching so I am trying to avoid both with the TFP dichlor/bleach program and shocking with chlorine only.
I am thinking I will go ahead and install the EOS since I purchased the parts. I have read comments from some of the ozone skeptics at TFP but I thought it might be useful for oxidizing combined chlorine. If it ends up destroying too much of the free chlorine, I can always unplug it. The problem I have is that I don’t see how the parts could conveniently fit into the compartment. I am wondering if any bullfrog owners with the EOS ozone installed have any photos of their equipment compartment that they could share with me.
I am thinking I will go ahead and install the EOS since I purchased the parts. I have read comments from some of the ozone skeptics at TFP but I thought it might be useful for oxidizing combined chlorine. If it ends up destroying too much of the free chlorine, I can always unplug it. The problem I have is that I don’t see how the parts could conveniently fit into the compartment. I am wondering if any bullfrog owners with the EOS ozone installed have any photos of their equipment compartment that they could share with me.