CYA for Salt Chlorinator Pools II

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The ONE thing that hasn't been addressed in your analysis, Richard, is the fact (using the term loosely) that almost everyone using a SWG with fairly well balanced water reports CC at 0 all the time. This is not true (I believe) of those that use bleach to maintain normal FC, at some point they will get a buildup of CC and have to shock (which is another interesting thread you are involved in!). This would seem to support the idea that the SWG is "super-shocking" in the cell and it must be some larger percentage of the water that passes through the cell than you are calculating.

I hope this doesn't duplicate something said farther below, where I haven't read yet.
[Edit]Sure enough, it was beat to death. Sorry to waste the bandwidth[/Edit]

I have a SWG and have seen CC chlorine levels above zero. It has been after a swim party or other event that put a good load on the pool. My solution was simply to add some bleach, and let things circulate over night.

This does not deny that some form of superchlorination may be occurring in the cell, but it also shows that water not having gone through the cell recently is still at risk.

[Edit]I think I will try and up my CYA based on what I read here. I was keeping it lower because I didn't understand how it would help. Now that I can grasp a reason why it is a good thing I will follow through.

In reading all of this I had a couple of thoughts.

First, my aquarite turbo cell has what looks like plastic mesh around the plates. This should spit out lots of vortices to both slow the water down and mix it a lot near the plates, suddenly that makes sense. High turbulence should move the chlorine away from the plates more quickly. Clever mechanical tricks are always a good thing.

Second, someone with a two speed pump should be able to test whether slower flow is more or less efficient somehow. This would not be an easy test since fairly accurate estimates of flow rate would be needed, but worth considering.
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