Nature 2?

[waterbear]

My 2 cents. I have a 36500 gallon pool with spa and waterfall. On the large size I'd say. I have salt water system, ozone a big DE filter and Nature 2. I run my filter 11 hours a day. My salt water generator keeps my chlorine at a nice 2-3 ppm. I keep my pool at a nice 85 degrees. I shock as necessary. Last year I tried not to use the nature 2 and bang I got alge. This year again I tried not to use it and bang alge again. Maybe for smaller pools its ok not to use it. But im a business guy and travel 4 days a week and dont have the time to hover over my pool. When i get home for the weekend I just want to swim and have fun. When I do use the nature 2 cylinder it allows me to turn my chlorine down to 1 ppm. I purchase my nature 2 filter at focus pools for 85 bucks. And its the big -45 unit. I've now been using nature 2 for 6 years and like it. Just my 2 cents.

Hmmm, the ozone is destroying the chlorine your SWG is putting in the pool and making it work harder than without the ozone to maintain the same amount of chlorine. If you turned the ozone off you would probably generate 1 ppm chlorine with your SWG output turned down and therefore prolong the life of your cell. Also, the chlorine is destroying the ozone in your generator's reaction vessel requiring you to up the ozone output. IMHO, ozone really only has benefits in a bromine system where it actually reactives the bromine bank. It just works against chlorine. The SWG by itself is more than capable of making sure your pool is ok when you are away from home (with or without the N2).