Should i replace my salt cell or the whole system

[SafetyBob]

I was at my local Metal Supermarket a couple of weeks ago were I met a man who's salt cell was shot. I believe 3 to 4 hundred dollars for replacement. Bottom line, he disassembled the cell to expose the almost completely gone copper bars. I believe it was around 20 bucks for a foot or so of 1/2" copper bar stock and he has enought for many replacements. Yes he had to carefully cut the unit apart, yes he will have to drill and tap the new copper bars and cut them to length, yes he will have to glue everything back together......20 bucks versus 400....I know what I would be doing (or asking a talented neighbor to help).

Bob E.

[PoolDoc]

Sounds like your neighbor had a copper ionizer, not an SWCG. Unfortunately, the repair you describe would not work at all on an SWCG cell, which uses titanium or other exotically coated base plates -- to avoid loss of plate metal into the water.

[waterbear]

Also many ionizers do not use just copper. Many are copper and silver so that cheap 'fix' is not going to do the job!

[PoolDoc]

Also many ionizers do not use just copper. Many are copper and silver so that cheap 'fix' is not going to do the job!

Oh, I don't know. I tend to think of ionizers as "broken from the factory", so a 'broken fix' won't make them any worse!

[waterbear]

oh, i don't know. I tend to think of ionizers as "broken from the factory", so a 'broken fix' won't make them any worse!

roflmao!!!!!!!!

[wishIcould]

Just cleaning the cell with a muritic acid solution on a 3 year old system did the trick of getting it to work again. May be worth the try.