Re: Can you taste and feel SWG treated water?
It feels so much better, you don't have that sticky chlorine feeling when you dry off. I really can't taste the salt but then again I live one half block from the atlantic ocean and swim in that all the time so maybe I am used to really salty water. A pool with a SWG is only about 1/10 as salty as seawater.
Also, since the water is constanly being 'supershocked' in the cell to very high chlorine levels there is a good chance that you will never have to maunally shock the pool....ever! Chlorine drip can't do that! Only real drawback it the constant upward drift of pH...but a little acid fixes that easily. You just have to add it on a regular basis to take care of it. The top of the line PoolPilot even includes an acid feeder and automation to keep the chlorine and pH where they should be without intervention! (except for adding salt to the pool and acid to the feed tank when needed). Very similar to automation that can be put on aquariums....pH and ORP electrodes!
Last edited by waterbear; 06-19-2006 at 10:36 PM.
Retired pool store and commercial pool maintenance guy.
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