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Conine2965:
Got free start up kit looking for thoughts or tips and tricks.

bud16415:
I have used a few cartridges and they seem to work great. I put one in when I know I will be gone for a couple weeks to a month. Selecting the correct setting is the trick.

Sam:
It's a great system that works well but I recommend having some granular chlorine on hand.  It's such a low chemical system that it can have a hard time keeping up with a sudden heavy bather load.  Throw a few teaspoons of dichlor after a heavy usage period and you should be good to go.  We've had great luck with this system.

Conine2965:
Can you get the smartchlor in bulk?

bud16415:

--- Quote from: Conine2965 on July 14, 2017, 06:38:49 am ---Can you get the smartchlor in bulk?

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Not that I know of.

If you could I would just pop the top off he canister and refill my own. Once you put a cartridge in you need to leave it in until it is used up. As Sam mentioned it is compatible with dichlor so that is what I would use for supplemental sanitizer.

The difference between smartchlor and dichlor is the time it takes for it to break down. If you filled your canister with dichlor it wouldn’t go a month it would all be in dilution in your water in a few minutes and your chlorine level would be off the charts. Dichlor is perfect for the quick hit or a daily dose program like I do. It works fast cleans your water and then is almost gone the next day. The smartchlor works slowly and all the time, and in the end does the same job.

The problem happens when you have your cartridge set for the two of you using the tub for 45 minutes per day after showering and then the weekend comes and you have friends over and the tub gets 3 times the usage and your friends forget to rinse their swimsuits 100% and maybe they used some body lotion etc. Sunday morning you get up for a morning soak with drinking your coffee and you find your tub cloudy and smelling funky. The slight dose the system was set at wasn’t enough. If you would have added a tablespoon of dichlor Saturday night before bed you would have woke up to a sparkling clean tub.

It is so much easier to correct a problem before it happens rather than after. The hardest thing people new to hot tubs do is trying to keep the sanitizer level too perfect on the low end. I had no clue when we started how much 5PPM was or how strong these things were or how bad they would be if they were higher. When I started using Clorox bleach it came into perspective better because we all use bleach for cleaning and laundry. Now I’m looking at 400 gallons of water and I’m putting less bleach in it than I would a load of whites or a bucket of water for cleaning and then I measure the PPM and the light came on it doesn’t take a huge amount of this stuff to clean your water. 5PPM is really a small amount. Don’t be afraid to use a little when you think you need it.         

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