Hi, I'm new to this site and a new pool owner. I currently have a chlorine pool and was wondering the pros and cons of switching to Salt. We are from NJ and have a concrete pool 15x30. Any input would be appreciated.
Yeah the Cells do wear out.. and how long you get out of a cell really depends on your water condition and the environment you run it in.The downside to salt is that the generator cell needs to be replaced and tends to be costly. To me, chlorine is easy, but salt would probably be easier from what I hear.
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I have zero experience with salt. Myself and a few of my neighbors are all building pools right now and everyone except for me had no idea that a cell would need to be replaced. Since the OP asked, I just thought I would throw it out there as something to consider. There is a really good chart that I saw posted on here and it had all the numbers for costs of cells, systems and how much chlorine they each generated. From what I saw the cost of cells was anywhere from $300-700, depending on the system.Yeah the Cells do wear out.. and how long you get out of a cell really depends on your water condition and the environment you run it in.
Let's figure the warranty of most cells as the life span that a manufacture expects you will get out them, most are 3-5 years. And if you average the cost of the chlorine usage over those 5 years you will find you just about broke even. But the replacement cell is only going to be the cell not the whole thing with the controller. So that should be cheaper. And if your cell lasts longer than 5 years anything after that is free chlorine. I got 9 years out of my first cell and by that measure I got 4 years of free chlorine. My second Cell is on year 7 and I paid that one off in the first two years.. the replacement cell was a fifth of the cost of the whole set up.. so I am going on 5 years of free chlorine with number two. I can only tell you my experience.. yours may be different.
No affect on either one... the salinity is too low. Its half that of your tears (7000ppm) and a tenth of the ocean (34000ppm). Besides many pools already have almost that much salt in them already. Another thing.. an Salt water generator pool IS a chlorine pool. The only difference is how the chlorine is added to the water.Does the 3500 ppm of salt have any affect on longevity of plaster or other components, when compared with a chlorine system?
Even a non-salt pool will accumulate salt over time. My basically new pool had 800 ppm of salt before I added any. I've heard others on here with non-salt pools say they have between 1000 - 2000 ppm.Does the 3500 ppm of salt have any affect on longevity of plaster or other components, when compared with a chlorine system?
I just converted my pool to salt and my baseline test was 2000 ppm. Only had to add about 4 bags of salt to get to the 3000 range.Even a non-salt pool will accumulate salt over time. My basically new pool had 800 ppm of salt before I added any. I've heard others on here with non-salt pools say they have between 1000 - 2000 ppm.
The point being that all pools have some salt in them. Might as well bump it up a little and take advantage of the benefits of a chlorine generator.
Exactly! And you're going to love having the SWCG. I left for vacation for 2 weeks last year and the SWCG did its work. I can't think of any other automatic way to do that.I just converted my pool to salt and my baseline test was 2000 ppm. Only had to add about 4 bags of salt to get to the 3000 range.