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2013 HS Grandee W/ ACE Salt Progress Real Life results
Water Boy:
Arctic Spas offers a factory OEM installed salt system that is warrantied through Arctic Spas. To my knowledge, Arctic was the first manufacturer to offer their own system, and not a after market system.
dunecritter:
--- Quote from: Water Boy on February 13, 2014, 10:38:25 am ---Arctic Spas offers a factory OEM installed salt system that is warrantied through Arctic Spas. To my knowledge, Arctic was the first manufacturer to offer their own system, and not a after market system.
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I just went to the Arctic website and spoke with a "Krista" on live chat She did in fact verify this info...Apparently they do offer it OEM and warranty it through Arctic as well. Good info Water boy.
Have you had any experience as of yet with Arctic's salt system?
meriflower:
Glad it's working well for you in the first 4 mos. Keep us posted. I have read mixed reviews, most complaints with the cells needing to be replaced and the expense (they only carry a one year warranty). Has anyone heard of any problems on using salt water? I'm only asking as I have had salt water aquariums and I have seen first hand what salt can do to components. I ran into one review on the HS site where customer had blisters and rust spots on their HS tub.
Sam:
Clearwater Spas does the Isis system OEM and warrants it through the factory.
As stated above, salt is corrosive. I have seen, first hand the damage that salt does to heating elements and other components. Also, you still need to balance and drain your water at approximately the same intervals. So basically all the salt system does is prevent you having to manually add chlorine. Tossing a capfull of dichlor in the water is not complicated or difficult. I would never pay $1500 plus the cost of replacement cells and the hassle of cleaning cells to avoid tossing a capful of dichlor it, especially considering the corrosive nature of the salt.
Your post sounds like damage control due to all of the complaints about the ACE system. Our local Hot Springs dealer likes to tout it as chemical free, or some other misrepresentation. For all of you reading this, salt is sodium chloride, which is sodium ions and chlorine ions. Salt systems simply turn the chloride ions into chlorine gas. As stated above it can be sodium bromide to bromine as well. You are basically paying a bunch of money for a chlorine or bromine generator.
No offense, but I don't think the ACE system is all that it's cracked up to be.
dunecritter:
--- Quote from: Sam on February 13, 2014, 04:57:11 pm ---Clearwater Spas does the Isis system OEM and warrants it through the factory.
As stated above, salt is corrosive. I have seen, first hand the damage that salt does to heating elements and other components. Also, you still need to balance and drain your water at approximately the same intervals. So basically all the salt system does is prevent you having to manually add chlorine. Tossing a capfull of dichlor in the water is not complicated or difficult. I would never pay $1500 plus the cost of replacement cells and the hassle of cleaning cells to avoid tossing a capful of dichlor it, especially considering the corrosive nature of the salt.
Your post sounds like damage control due to all of the complaints about the ACE system. Our local Hot Springs dealer likes to tout it as chemical free, or some other misrepresentation. For all of you reading this, salt is sodium chloride, which is sodium ions and chlorine ions. Salt systems simply turn the chloride ions into chlorine gas. As stated above it can be sodium bromide to bromine as well. You are basically paying a bunch of money for a chlorine or bromine generator.
No offense, but I don't think the ACE system is all that it's cracked up to be.
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No Offense taken Sam.. You have your individual opinion as a non owner and have never used one personally...but you know Sam and that's great for you....And you can call it "damage control"..."Sales pitch".. Whatever you desire. Whatever makes you feel like your opinion should be the tell all. But ultimately if you have not owned it...Its nothing but your non experienced opinion. What's that worth? This is my experience regardless of what you might think and what you have "seen"....I'm Extatic with this system so far...It is still early (four and a half months) and I do have high hopes for it. I will keep all posted and I hope I don't eat my words in the near future. Everyone is surely entitled to his/hers own opinion for sure. I personally have never had an issue by the smell that I get in a hot tub that uses bottled chlorine ...Until Now that I don't have ANY smell using the ACE System...Im like a hound dog sniffing it out! I get around the hot tubs that do use chlorine and I can smell it a mile away...Kinda like a smoker and a non smoker thing. But If someone actually "OWNS" the new ACE system and thinks differently...Please post you issues...I know there were issues the first 2 years out but this is a new version that is on a new Grandee. Also...The ACE actually produces 5 different water sanitizing agents including Ozone being one of the 5....Do others? Do others use the Diamond technology or the titanium steel plates in the generator?? I don't know either...
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