Quote Originally Posted by jrv331
Waterbear,
My inline feeder is a Sani King Proformax(hope thats spelled right). The manual says its for bromine or trichlor. If I scrub it real good wjhy cant I use it? Heres the problem, my brother like to keep his solar cover on if the pool is not in use. Were afraid that a floating dispenser will not move around enough under the cover to be effective. Is this incorrect?
Thanks
John
First, I really don't know if you can use it and not have problems.
What I know is this. trichlor can react violently with other forms of chlorine, I don't know if this applies to bromine. Unless you get a answer otherwise it is not worth taking the risk.
Second, I question how well you can clean the feeder out. I don't know the amount of bromine needed to convert the chlorine pool back to a bromine pool but the amount of bromine that is used as a mustard algae treatment (which converts the pool to bromine temporarily) is not very much.
Third, Trichlor is fine but you will eventually have problems with your CYA levels getting too high and your options are to either drain and refill or switch to unstabilized chlorine. Many of the people on this forum choose to use unstabilizied chlorine for normal sanitation and shocking and add an appropriate amount of stabilzer separately for this very reason.