If you own a pool and use chlorine and other chemicals to manage your pH balance, you know how harsh these chemicals can be. Just the smell alone can be noxious, along with eye irritation and damage to your skin and hair. There is a better way to keep your pool safely within the right pH range, with fewer chemicals and less required maintenance to accomplish those goals. A salt chlorine generator can make a significant difference in the quality of your pool water, while requiring less maintenance and chemicals to maintain your pool.
What Is A Salt Chlorine Generator?
The way a salt chlorine generator works is by creating its own chlorine from sodium chloride in the water. To allow this to happen, the water in the pool must first be brought up to a salt-water ratio of at least 3,000 ppm, or 3,000 parts per million, of salt. What the generator does is use this salt concentration to create hydrogen gas and hypochlorous acid by using electrolysis to break the salt particles into these two elements as the water passes through the salt cell. The gas evaporates up through the water, while the hypochlorous acid sanitizes the water. Once the water passes back into the pool, the salt reforms and the process begins over again.
The benefit of this method is that there are fewer chlorine concentrates in the water, creating a more pleasurable swimming experience. For those who are sensitive to chlorine or and are looking for chlorine alternatives, this is a perfect solution. Although pool chemistry must still be monitored, using a salt chlorine generator eliminates the need for many chemicals which are traditionally needed on a weekly basis. To learn more, call your local pool service company to discuss having a new salt generator installed in your pool.
Posted on behalf of Somar Pools, LLC
