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Marquis Inline Bromine System Problems

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MarKee:
Good advice by castletonia.  Also, if it's a used hot tub you may have bio-film built up in the plumbing from it's past use.  This bio-film may be sucking up all your sanitizer.  I would suggest buying a product called Ahh-Some and doing a heavy duty purge on the tub.  Your local dealer may carry it, or you can buy it on Amazon.

bud16415:
As I have posted several times I started out with bromine in the frog cartridges along with the minerals in a similar system in our Caldera tub. My problems were exactly the same. The yellow cartridges and then the purple. In the beginning with a fresh cartridge you get more at any given setting because there is more in the cartridge. I was always tweaking the setting and still levels were up and down. I then started tossing a floater in when it seemed I wasn’t getting sanitized. The cost of the cartridges is 10X what they should cost based on how little material is in them.

I figured out I was in the tub every day I was testing every day and adjusting PH and such manually anyway and constantly adjusting the cartridge any way. Then why not when I was at it toss in some relatively cheap dichlor when I got out and or regular laundry bleach (super cheap). In doing this and we use way less shock and have a heaver user load. We shock once a week or longer up to two weeks.

As to the mineral cartridges I don’t use them at all and notice no difference.

The only draw back to daily dose is when you go away you need to get a neighbor or family member to come over every few days or you can stick in a @ease cartridge (compatible with dichlor) when you are away for up to a month.

Took me a year to give up on the yellow bromine cartridges.   

jamiho:
I was told my reconditioned tub had been completely flushed and sanitized prior to being delivered to me, but I guess who knows if that really happened.

I think I'll try floating bromine capsules for now, and consider a bigger change when it's time to drain and refill the tub in the spring, when I'll also do a big clean and flush.

bradleyabell:

--- Quote from: jamiho on January 25, 2018, 12:29:10 pm ---I was told my reconditioned tub had been completely flushed and sanitized prior to being delivered to me, but I guess who knows if that really happened.

I think I'll try floating bromine capsules for now, and consider a bigger change when it's time to drain and refill the tub in the spring, when I'll also do a big clean and flush.

--- End quote ---


I tried the spa frog floating system and found it to be very expensive and not worth the money.  I then bought a cheap floater and put 1" bromine pucks in it and have loved it.  Add 2-3 pucks every week or so. 

I also bought a "filter spa frog" and the cap broke off it while in the tub and the cystals went all over the filter compartment.  Thankfully it doesn't appear any got sucked into the pumps, and I was able to remove all of them and then threw the junk away.

My personal recommendation would be to just use a bromine floater w/1" pucks and shock with MPS as needed.

castletonia:
It's too bad that the inline system did not work for you.  Overall, I have had success with it selling both Marquis and Caldera, once all my customers were on the 200-gram cartridge.  I might also suggest the @ease SmartChlor over the bromine if you want to continue using the inline system. 

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