Katy and Westside Pools

It is  a wrong impression that after the installation of Salt Chlorine generator, Pool water do not need anything else to be kept healthy and algea free.

It is imperative to understand that salt generator is just another way of adding or producing chlorine. Nacl( Salt) is being split into Na and Cl by Salt Cell by  electrochemical gradient to produce chlorine.

 All other parameter like PH, Total  Alkalinity, Stabilizer , Ca Hardness ,TDS need to be checked and controlled more vigrously.

 Infact PH bounce is so frequent that National Swimming pool Federation is recommending service Companies to visit twice a week on this type of Pools. 

The Pool  running cycle should be long enough to produce sufficent amount of chlorine.

Stablizer level should in higher range than regular pools.

Every 3 years salt generator cell should be replaced to keep the Chlorine production efficency to the required levels.

Phosphates levels should be checked frequently.

Salt should be in range of 3000ppm or more according to manufacturer recommendation.

 Cause Of Stains and Corrosion

Any Time you have different Metals ( Copper Stainless steel ) in a salt water pool you create a battery. Some amount of current flows between the metals.

 The electrons that make up the current are supplied by one of the metals,giving up a bit of itself in the form of metal ions to the pool  water.This is called Galvanic corrosion

. Galvanic Corrosion causes Plaster discoloration and metal erosion. The best way to inhibit the effect of Galvanic  corrosion is Zinc anode.

Zinc is a metal that gives up metal ions fasters than other metals in the pool and get eroded instead of pool lights, rails, heater, ladder, cleaner metal parts etc. 

The Zinc ions do not discolor the pool and hence No Black stains, brown stains, or Heater damage.  .

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