CuLator

[kelemvor]

I used it in my salt pool.

[SunnyOptimism]

I used it in my salt pool.

I'm curious, did it work? What metals were you trying to eliminate? Were you able to measure metal levels before and after?

Cheers.

[kelemvor]

No, I have some small stains in my pool that I *assume* are copper. I tried to treat with ascorbic and also used culator.

For all I know it could be something other than copper, so I didn't blast the product.

The culator didn't cause any noticeable change in my chemistry including salt level so I'd at least say it's safe in a salt pool. I threw the bag away after a few months.

[SunnyOptimism]

No, I have some small stains in my pool that I *assume* are copper. I tried to treat with ascorbic and also used culator.

For all I know it could be something other than copper, so I didn't blast the product.

The culator didn't cause any noticeable change in my chemistry including salt level so I'd at least say it's safe in a salt pool. I threw the bag away after a few months.

My opinion on the CuLator is this - the science behind it (ion exchange resins) is sound; the implementation is idiotic.

That's harsh but true. I am engineer (in my former life) and no reasonable engineer would ever expect a cloth bag filled with a couple of marbles worth of the resin and thrown into the skimmer basket would have any meaningful effect. If you want ion exchange resins to work, then they have to be used in the same way that they are used in a residential water softening system - the pool water has to be forced to flow through a resin bed where 99.9% of the water intimately contacts the resin. That is the only way this technology can work efficiently.

That's my two cent opinion....

Cheers.

[FormerBromineUser]

I tried them and can't say that they were worth the expense. I got my iron out using Ben's cal-hypo method. Worked a treat.

[SunnyOptimism]

I tried them and can't say that they were worth the expense. I got my iron out using Ben's cal-hypo method. Worked a treat.

I saw that trick posted somewhere on this forum. I have to say that I'd be a little nervous trying to intentionally scale out metals and hope that my filter catches them. Also, I think those of us with naturally high Ca levels would probably just scale out calcium carbonate more so than metals.

Interesting though.....do you have a link to a post with detailed instruction?