Don’t. There really isn’t any benefit. This coming

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Jun 27, 2020
3:13:19pm

kotacoug Intervention Needed

From someone who has had a traditional pool non salt and also a salt pool that I converted to a regular pool.

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kotacoug

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Looking to switch my pool from traditional chlorine to Salt water. Looking at

Romex

6/27/20 11:27am

What is the benefit(s) of changing to salt water?

CoachSpeak

6/27/20 11:30am

My system is old now and I am constantly pouring chlorine into it to keep it

Romex

6/27/20 11:33am

Use the salt generator to make your chlorine, and the salt water

USMCdad

6/27/20 11:33am

And the level of salt isn’t much different than your body has

USMCdad

6/27/20 11:36am

So basically you still have to do all the maintenance other than..... adding

kotacoug

6/27/20 3:17pm

The payoff is the water itself is much better to swim in

USMCdad

6/27/20 3:34pm

Oh and you don’t have to run the filter any longer

USMCdad

6/27/20 4:01pm

Less maintenance, fewer chemicals, less harsh on skin, hair, eyes, and suits.

kccougar

6/27/20 11:49am

The maintenance just changes from one thing to another. If you have hard water

kotacoug

6/27/20 3:15pm

I disagree. Maintaining sanitizer levels in your water is the single most important part of pool maintenance, and it

cheezedawg

6/28/20 11:31am

This is exactly what I am experiencing and why I want to switch to a Salt cell.

Romex

6/29/20 9:52am

It has advantages, especially if you don’t have a pool guy

JOPE

6/27/20 11:52am

You’ll still need a pool guy if you can’t take care of a non salt pool well you

kotacoug

6/27/20 3:18pm

The inventor of this product is LDS. Worth a look.

BYUFBDAD

6/27/20 11:50am

Don’t. There really isn’t any benefit. This coming

kotacoug

6/27/20 3:13pm

I gave up after two salt systems. Just too hard to keep the PH in balance so

tevye

6/28/20 10:21am

Did you have a controller to help automate it? The controller should pump the

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