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    Question UV system for pools?

    New here but would like to know if anyone has used a uv system?

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    Default Re: UV system for pools?

    I have, but very few other people have.

    They are expensive, high maintenance, and don't do what most people think: in particular, UV systems do NOT sanitize a pool and do not oxidize pool goo. At best, they are a supplement to other chemicals. Their primary *useful* application is on high end indoor pools. On outdoor pools, the pool gets more UV from sunlight, than it will from any UV system installed on the pool!

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    Default Re: UV system for pools?

    they use them on koi pond alot to control algea , supposseddly they make algea clump so the filter can pick it up

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    Default Re: UV system for pools?

    Unfortunately, there seems to be ZERO evidence that that actually helps, at least in pool situations. Since full summer sun includes light in the wavelengths I'm aware of in UV reactors, if the UV reactor could 'clump' algae . . . then sunlight would do it, too.

    Also, 'clumping' live algae, at least with pool filtration, is of very questionable value. Live algae -- clumped or not -- tends to pass through a sand filter, and tends to stop up DE filters, very rapidly.

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