I would love to create my own DIY bleach feeder/injector and have read many posts on this topic. I'm wondering if there is any way that I could use my exisiting Hayward Chlorinator to assist in this effort. As most of you know, it draws the water through the feeder and has a control valve on it. Now, I'm sure even at the lowest setting it draws water through way too fast to just draw straight bleach through it and it also would not have much of a storage amount. But what if I added a tank before the inlet side of the chlorinator and was able to use that to add bleach....then use some type of ballcock valve after the chlorinator to further adjust the volume down to a almost a trickle? Now Im not sure how I would be able to measure the flow other then adding ex amount to the tank and see how long before it goes to zero, but that could work....
I was also wondering in my over simplified brain about some type of gravity feed tank with again, some type of ballcock or mechanism that would allow it to just drip a very small amount of bleach at a time. Could you not place a tank on the edge of the pool, secure it well, and allow it to drip bleach in front of one of the return jets?
I know these ideas are overly simplified, but I really only need to use them for the couple weeks per year we will be away on vacation...other then that I have been able to get my wife to dose with chlorine while I am away, and the pool has never looked better!
Thanks....
I was also wondering in my over simplified brain about some type of gravity feed tank with again, some type of ballcock or mechanism that would allow it to just drip a very small amount of bleach at a time. Could you not place a tank on the edge of the pool, secure it well, and allow it to drip bleach in front of one of the return jets?
I know these ideas are overly simplified, but I really only need to use them for the couple weeks per year we will be away on vacation...other then that I have been able to get my wife to dose with chlorine while I am away, and the pool has never looked better!
Thanks....