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Mr. Luddite

On 2/25/2014 12:14 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 25 Feb 2014 07:00:07 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 2/25/2014 1:34 AM, wrote:

We had a pitch at an inspector seminar from one of the engineers who
designed one of the first listed salt to chlorine generators. The
reaction of NaCl to free chlorine is very short lived and most of the
chlorine is recombined very quickly after it leaves the actual
generator element so very little circulates in the pool..
That is not really important since it has done the germ killing by
then at a very high concentration of Cl.

Gregg, think about what this guy claims. The cell is only about 10
inches long and the water flow going through it is very high. It doesn't
spend anywhere near the time in the cell to kill off any germs.

There's no way one pass through the cell can add enough chlorine to
sanitize the water. The sanitation and germ killing takes place
because the generated chlorine accumulates and resides in the pool
water, not simply the cell.

Have you ever looked at an ozone system?
They clean the water in the cell too.

BTW what does your water test at in the pool?

Not sure what you are asking. Test for what? I know it reports free
available chlorine and total chlorine as two of the test report items.