Baquacil in a hot tub

[sock monkey]

Hi! Please bear with me. I bought a used portable hot tub. It is a couple years old, and supposedly only used for one year. The owner has offered me to take the chemicals he has left over as well. Apparently, he has quite a lot of Baquacil.

The heater in this hot tub is shorting out the system. We took it apart. The element is badly corroded. We ordered a new element (has not come in yet)

My question is: is this in some way related to using Baquacil in the hot tub? Is Baquacil a standard product for this application? Is it better to continue with what the hot tub is "used to" and of course, I do have a free supply coming to me if I want it.

Use it or don't use it? THX much

[Watermom]

Can't comment on the element problem, but I would not use baq if it were my hot tub.