I was reading this link ( http://www.truetex.com/poolcontrol.htm#cyanurics ), and the section titled "Eliminating Cyanurics" caught my attention. According to this article, stabilizer isn't needed and in fact makes it much more difficult to sanitize the pool and extremely difficult/impossible to kill algae without having to shock on a regular basis.

He states he does not use stabilizer and can sanitize/kill algae with far lower free chlorine levels (well less than 1ppm; I think he mentions .2ppm or so). It seems unstabilized chlorine is extremely effective even at low levels.

Has anyone tried this method? Can it be done when using a SWG (mine recommends CYA at 60-80, would a CYA level of 0 hurt it?)?

I understand CYA prevents UV from depleting the chlorine quickly, but also greatly reduces its effectiveness. Would a SWG be able to keep up with demand without using any CYA or prematurely depleting the cell?

Seems like this method could save quite a bit of $$. Any thoughts/experience with this are greatly appreciated.