New Intex pool startup with salt

[SenderoMan]

Thanks for the help! Glad I found your website, I was thinking the salt system was as simple as filling the pool and turning on the salt system and the filter system and enjoy! Not that easy evidently?

[PoolDoc]

Not really.

Salt systems are Salt Water Chlorine Generation Systems (SWCG) that allow you to manufacture chlorine in small quantities, from large amounts of salt added to your pool. But, since they are fundamentally just another way to add chlorine to your pool, you STILL need to learn how to run a chlorinated pool. Actually, it's a bit more complicated with an SWCG.

The benefit of an SWCG, once you have everything set up properly and working, is that you can walk away from your pool for a week, and come back to an algae free pool with reasonable chlorine levels. In other words, a SWCG is potentially a very effective semi-automatic chlorine feed system.