Thanks very much Matt. This forum and community is a treasure.
What I see is that if I want to be able to throw a big party, and not have to babysit the spa every 2 hours, I am going to need some kind of extra firepower. I like to over-engineer things where possible, sometimes that gets me into trouble. I'm very health conscious and want to get my water and especially the related gasses down to an absolute minimum to preserve my health.
Serious question - I know TFP is very focused on keeping things simple, pragmatic, and helping people avoid snake oil. I'm open to new technology. I get the impression that if I were to try to integrate some kind of "
AOP" system into the mix as a
supplemental system to chlorine, I may be able to reduce my Cl residual as well as better manage the extreme Cl load peaks when I want to have a party. There are dozens of seemingly interesting articles on AOP in scientific journals and ResearchGate (random
example). As JN mentioned, UV + O2 might be worth exploring. There are a couple of commercial products out there, I will refrain from mentioning them, but the typical refrain is that they have enabled users to significantly reduce their chlorine residual.
Is there any appetite for further discussion of this on TFP? If not, I totally understand, if there is, I'd like to speak with anyone interested and try to sort the wheat from the chaff, and work towards building something to make my spa as close to bullet-proof as possible over the next year or two, just as TFP has helped me do with my pool.