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Ease inline smartchlor
hottubdan:
If you want cheapest method, use dichlor. Or bleach. Mineral systems are a little pricier, but make for nicer water. Salt systems are priciest, but make the most natural water. You can't have it all. There are trade offs. Make a choice.
BullFrogSpasMN:
--- Quote from: hottubdan on July 15, 2017, 12:11:29 pm ---If you want cheapest method, use dichlor. Or bleach. Mineral systems are a little pricier, but make for nicer water. Salt systems are priciest, but make the most natural water. You can't have it all. There are trade offs. Make a choice.
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100% Spot On! If you want to save money and become a chemist in the process you can go to various hardware stores and source a gallon of muriatic acid, couple jugs of bleach, some baking soda and learn how to manage it...if you want convenience you'll pay more for mineral sticks, convenient pre-packaged floating cartridges, water conditioners, salt systems, etc.
bud16415:
--- Quote from: buba on July 15, 2017, 10:30:20 am ---
--- Quote from: Conine2965 on July 14, 2017, 06:38:49 am ---Can you get the smartchlor in bulk?
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I do not know if you can or not but would like to know. I have measured the dry weight of a new @ease floater cartridge at 8.4oz and an empty one at 2.4oz which mean they are filled with 6 dry oz by weight of the smartchlor chlorine. If we can find a source I am sure we could figure out a way to refill the floaters and save some money.
Since this is a thread about inline there is a separate topic (which I cannot find) where someone measured the inline cartridge and reported it contained about 1 cup (liquid measure cup not dry weight) of smartchlor.
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I started the thread where I measured the contents of the @ease container and use part of it each time I go away for a week or two.
https://www.whatsthebest-hottub.com/forum/index.php/topic,19861.msg197052.html#msg197052
My problem with cost is only secondary. I started out with the inline Frog bromine and my major problem was I felt the dispensing rate was not constant thru the life of the cartridge and our bather load would go up and down and I was all the time pulling the cartridge out and changing the setting. I didn’t try the @ease smart-chlor enough to know if it would be the same problem but some of the posts show it is a good idea to supplement that also when load is high.
Once I saw the cost savings to just doing it all manually as I was still doing a lot of the other steps manually anyway. I figured what is one more step. If I’m checking the water anyway to just dump in a small amount of bleach.
The set it and forget it part never worked for me.
buba:
What is so 'Smart' about the chemicals used in the @Ease system? Or is the design of the cartridge what is 'Smart'? If it is the cartridge dispensing system that is 'Smart' then why can the cartridge not be refilled with the correct chemicals and save some money in the process?
The active ingredients in the @ease system is follows.
Active Ingredients:
1.3-dichloro-5, 5-Dimethylhydantoin 81.1%
1.3-dichloro-5-ethyl-5-methylhydantoin 16.1%
Other Ingredients: 2.8%
Total: 100.0%
FYI: this is the same chemical formulation as DANTOCHLOR from Lonza (Could this be one and the same as 'Smartchlor"?)
http://bio.lonza.com/uploads/tx_mwaxmarketingmaterial/Lonza_ProductDataSheets_Dantochlor_PDS.pdf
http://patents.justia.com/patent/20140369886
Conine2965:
Looks like the same stuff any idea where you can buy it
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