Most Salt Water Chlorine Generators (SWG) adjust their chlorine output by turning their generation on and off. The user sets the % the cycle should generate chlorine. Different models automatically turn their chlorine generation on and off with different time cycles. The cycle time of the SWG you have or are thinking of using can interact with your pump runtime.
A SWG with a long cycle time will not work well with the pump running in many short cycles.
Pentair Intellichlor ICXX
- 5 minutes for generation
- 4 hours between polarity changes
Hayward Aquarite
- 180 minutes
"If you are running the system for 9 hours per day at 20%, you are producing chlorine for 36 minutes for every 3 hours of runtime. After 3 hours, the unit will automatically reverse polarity and run for 36 minutes of the next 3 hour cycle. Because you are running for 9 hours per day, you produce on one polarity twice one day and the other polarity once. On the second day, you'll have the opposite."[1]
Circupool SJXX
- 120 minutes
