Brine Chlorine Generator

[waterbear]

Brine chlorine generators are an older design and are pretty much not used these days because of some inherent problems such as how to dispose of the extremely caustic lye/brine mixture that accumulates in the lye tank and also the danger of hydrogen explosions. They also do not provice the constants 'shocking' in the cell that online SWCG's do. They offer no real advantage and have many disadvantages over current SWCGs with the salt in the pool, advertising hype notwithstanding. In terms of operation, all salt chlorine generators work basically the same way but the brine units separate the hypochlorous acid (bleach) and add that to the pool water so they work much the same way as other liquid chlorine injection systems do except they make the chlorine in the unit. Like I said, their main disadvantage is that they also make lye as a byproduct that needs to be disposed of. With modern inlline generators the lye products (it actually only forms hydroxide ions and not lye since the concentration never really gets high enough) are nicely taken care of by the buffer systems in the pool water.