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Originally Posted by gustavo
12 hours, That's funny. When I need to add a cup because my pH has crept high I pour it into a mason jar and get in the pool and use it to scrub down the tile with a nylon brush. When I'm done I dump the rest in the pool and disperse it with my body movement through the water.
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Not the safest swim to take IMO?
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Originally Posted by Bogie Shooter
Acid is used all the time and is recommended to clean a pool filter. I recall when my pool was new and the filter became clogged the installer soaked it in a five gallon bucket and stirred it with his hand. When I questioned him he agreed one should use rubber gloves..........he was most concerned about getting it in ones eyes.
If the other items work and are safe, probably best to use.
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He's not following the recommended use, I can only assume he's ignorant.
Here's what I found
Salt water chlorination is a process that uses dissolved salt (1,800–6,000 ppm) as a store for the chlorination system. The chlorinator uses electrolysis to break down the salt (NaCl). The resulting chemical reaction eventually produces hypochlorous acid (HCIO), and sodium hypochlorite (NaClO), which are the sanitizing agents already commonly used in swimming pools. As such, a saltwater pool is not actually chlorine-free; it simply utilizes a chlorine generator instead of direct addition of chlorine.
The important distinction is that saltwater pools (usually) lack chloramines, referred to as combined chlorine. Chloramines are the irritants which give traditional pools the stigma of burning eyes and caustic smell. Electrolysis burns off chloramines in the same manner as traditional shock (oxidizer). When chlorine levels are low in the pool, one possible cause is low salt (others can be higher-than-normal chlorine demand, low stabilizer or mechanical issues with the generator itself.) Salt count can be lowered due to splash-out, backwashing, and dilution via rainwater
Concerns
Scientific research has shown that since saltwater pools still use chlorine sanitization, they generate unhealthy disinfection byproducts (DBPs) called trihalomethanes (THMs) the predominant form being bromoform. Very high levels of bromoform (up to 13-fold higher than maximum levels set by WHO) have been measured in public salt pools.[1]
Many people consider saltwater chlorine generators to be a new item. However, manufacturers have been producing salt chlorine generators in the United States since the early 1980s. The use of saltwater chlorine generators has however grown greatly since the early 2000s. Many hotels and water parks have converted to saltwater systems.
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