Perma Salt / Permasalt Ionizer system w/ Activate, Preparate, Klairavate Info!

[PoolDoc]

-- from the original 2012 post --

It seems to be an Asian made copper / silver ionizer system, often sold by above ground dealers like "Family Leisure" on their Permasalt page.

Their 'system' not only adds copper and silver to your pool, like a standard ionizer, it ALSO requires you to add an expensive salt mixture. They state that the Permasalt system "does not convert salt into chlorine" which leaves me wondering, why add the salt in the first place, if you're not going to use it?

Just to be clear: the Permasalt system is NOT a saltwater chlorination system (SWCG), though it DOES use chlorine in low doses. Their website, at http://www.permasalt.com/ has some brief manuals, here: http://www.permasalt.com/Downloads.html . However, much of the information I have is from the 2013 version of their pages, which included a lot more information, than the current ones.

They write that "The system chamber disperses natural minerals into the water including copper and silver, that serve as natural algaecides.". In other words, it's a copper / silver ionizer system.

They have "a specially blended family of ancillary products" they want to sell you:

• Preparate - "a Sodium based Salt that is enhanced with not only Borates, but also metal removers and cyanuric acid" or in other words, table salt with borax, stabilizer and some metal mystery products (possibly alum or aluminum sulfate) added.
  
  
• Activate - "combines both, DiChlor and Oxone" or in other words, diluted dichlor plus a bit of Dupont's Oxone non-sanitizing potassium monopersulfate product.
  
  
• Klairate -"a natural enzyme water clarifier" or in other words, an unidentified mystery product. It may have some value; it may be useless but harmless; or it may mess up your pool. We don't know.

-- Quotes mostly from this page: http://www.permasalt.com/Services.html (archived) --

The web domain (www.permasalt.com) was registered anonymously, and it's NEVER a good sign when company tries to hide from you! It should give you an idea how things will go if you need some customer service.

Their physical address is listed as 1004 Jaycox Rd, Avon OH . . . but there's no PermaSalt there. Here's the Google Map: http://goo.gl/maps/fi5T.

It looks like "Main Access" is the home of the Permasalt sales office. It looks pretty small to be a shipping location, so I'm guess that that location address may be "At the docks", somewhere freighters from Asia can land.

Doing a reverse look up for the 888 number or the street address, you find a number of different businesses:
Main Access -- www.gomainaccess.com
1004 Jaycox Rd.
Avon, OH 44011, USA
Phone: (888) 333-1134

http://www.powerionizer.com/Contact_Us.html

Recreational Products - Above Ground Pools
2968 Nationwide Pkwy.
Brunswick, OH 44212 USA
Toll Free: (888) 333-1134
Phone: (330) 220-8881

American Heritage Billiards LLC
630 Mondial Pkwy Streetsboro, OH 44241-5211
(330) 626-3710 (888) 333-1134

Main Access
Category: IT Services & Computer Repair
1004 Jaycox Rd
Avon, OH 44011
(440) 937-4870

I think I'm going to move this to the ionizer section, rather than the SWCG section, since the product claims to act like an ionizer, not a SWCG.