Convert bromine to chlorine?

[wildlifer]

Thanks for the reply - the old adage "once a bromine pool always a bromine pool" holds to be true. I will continue with bromine and will consider changing only when the time comes to replace the liner.

[PoolDoc]

Wow!

I know I'm getting old, but I only wrote that "old adage" for the first time, about 14 years ago. That doesn't seem all THAT long ago.

Maybe, "middle-aged adage"?

[wildlifer]

Okay, I spoke to our local pool professionals today (they are also the installers of my pool) and they say it can be done as long as you weren't using a bromine feeder. In my case the bromine tabs were dissolved in an Aqua Genie dispenser. This dispenser must be thoroughly cleaned of all traces of bromine before being used for chlorine. The problem is that I won't get a chlorine reading for a long time, perhaps months, until all of the bromide is used up. The pool will be sanitized but I will have to rely on the appearance of the water to determine if I am feeding enough chlorine into the system. He says this is not too difficult and eventually I will begin to see chlorine readings as the residual bromide is used up. Anyone had any experience with this?

[PoolDoc]

They're wrong -- but you're the one who has to pick who you are going to trust.

Locking this thread; we've done the bromine debate before and there's no point in wasting time on doing it again during the Forum's saturation period of late May - early July.

Good luck!