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Original => Hot Tub Forum => Topic started by: WAZUP on June 11, 2006, 02:01:43 pm

Title: salt water hot tub
Post by: WAZUP on June 11, 2006, 02:01:43 pm

COuld some one please explain to me the salt water system for hot tubs and how it works? I would think that this would be very corrosive especially with all the jets etc.

Title: Re: salt water hot tub
Post by: hottub.pool_boy on June 11, 2006, 08:53:54 pm

I have the system on my swimming pool---love it! We do not sell or recommend it for spas. Hot water , undercover, is a different animal from cool swimming pool water.

Title: Re: salt water hot tub
Post by: DPS on June 12, 2006, 02:28:58 am

I tested a system for our manufacturer a few years ago.  You put 4 large bottles of a salt additive in initially and a bromine generator turned it into Bromine.  It never functioned properly for more than a day or two, in spite of the manufacturer sending replacement parts for me to install to try and fix it.  Wherever the water dried - steps, step in area, floor, it left behind a residue of salt crystals.
I wouldn't recommend it.

Title: Re: salt water hot tub
Post by: Steve on June 12, 2006, 10:29:49 am

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COuld some one please explain to me the salt water system for hot tubs and how it works? I would think that this would be very corrosive especially with all the jets etc.

The technology is here and constantly being improved:

http://www.hottubessentials.com/genesis-bromine-generator.asp

Steve

Title: Re: salt water hot tub
Post by: DoubleA on June 12, 2006, 12:01:23 pm

With an install from a qualified technician would'nt that still void your warranty by modifying the spa?