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Nitro's Guide to Water Maintenance
silversun:
I was interested in this method, and searched for this thread. very informative, and I'm considering using this method on my recently purchased sundance optima.
I'm interested to know, nearly a decade later, how well does this advice hold up? Would anyone who subscribes to this method change anything? I'm wondering if technological progress in the last decade has outstripped parts of the advice. specifically the advice about never letting chlorine get to zero.
i have a sundance optima with clear ray and high output ozone, and mineral cartridge. My chlorine level frequently gets to zero. So, should i ignore that part? Should I ignore other parts?
Aquatub88:
Is the Taylor test kit usable for both a spa and a pool or are we talking about two different types of test kits? Thanks
bud16415:
--- Quote from: silversun on May 18, 2018, 03:42:52 pm ---I was interested in this method, and searched for this thread. very informative, and I'm considering using this method on my recently purchased sundance optima.
I'm interested to know, nearly a decade later, how well does this advice hold up? Would anyone who subscribes to this method change anything? I'm wondering if technological progress in the last decade has outstripped parts of the advice. specifically the advice about never letting chlorine get to zero.
i have a sundance optima with clear ray and high output ozone, and mineral cartridge. My chlorine level frequently gets to zero. So, should i ignore that part? Should I ignore other parts?
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I don’t think too much has changed with the dichlor/bleach method. We bought our tub 3 years ago and for a year or so I was going crazy with bromine and mineral cartridges in a frog inline feeder system supplemented with ozone. @ease was not yet on the market.
My conclusion was the minerals don’t do enough if anything to be worth the cost. Ozone generators help to some degree but have a lifespan and diminish over that lifespan in their usefulness.
I follow the dichlor/bleach method pretty much as laid out above. I wait a bit longer for the stabilizer to around 40/50 PPM as I seem to add water and even do partial water changes during the winter months to extend water life. This method is a lot cheaper than any other method except salt generation and with salt there is a bigger up front cost if the system is built in.
Because my tub has the inline feeder I don’t use day to day I put it to use when we go away for a week or more. I put in a @ease cartridge to cover the sanitation when no one is around. I go a step more and I take the top off the cartridge and take out and store the contents and just use one forth of a cartridge per week we will be gone.
A few months back I added salt to our tub in the concentration needed for a salt to chlorine system. I wanted to see how we liked the feel of the salt. We do. Hopefully sometime before fall I will be buying a saltron mini and installing it for the tub.
I’m very happy doing the dichlor/bleach method and IMO it is the most straightforward easy to get onto method. It gets you involved with knowing what is going on with your water. I didn’t find the OP’s description to be overly complex at all.
In the end everyone finds a method that works for them best.
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