FLOATRON?? This thing is awsome

[love2swim]

We have had so much trouble with our pool this year with the algae, so bad that we couldn't see the bottom of the pool at all. Beating ourself up with all the cleaning and chem. that we had been doing. We bought this floatron and it works super.... We cleaned the pool the best we can, put the floatron in the pool. In the last 3 weeks we vaccumed the pool one time, shocked it one time and we brush it 2 times a week... The pool now is beautiful and clear. This thing will save us lots of money and time. It cost like $250.00

Kim
18 x 36 inground liner

[traceyb]

We have had so much trouble with our pool this year with the algae, so bad that we couldn't see the bottom of the pool at all. Beating ourself up with all the cleaning and chem. that we had been doing. We bought this floatron and it works super.... We cleaned the pool the best we can, put the floatron in the pool. In the last 3 weeks we vaccumed the pool one time, shocked it one time and we brush it 2 times a week... The pool now is beautiful and clear. This thing will save us lots of money and time. It cost like $250.00

Kim
18 x 36 inground liner

Hey Kim........My friend is a stylist and she said the same thing about that floatron. How does it work? Do you put chemicals in it or is it strickly solar operated. Explain. I am a new pool owner and am interested in the purchase. Where did you get it? I really want to know the way it works if you could? Thanks

[rcabor1]

Another copper based product designed to flatten our wallets? This seems like another spam post. Anyone reading this should not buy it until pooldoc or someone else more qualified responds. I have a feeling you need a tinfoil hat on for it to work correctly.

[EricF]

Agreed. Looks like spam to me. JACSS.

EricF

[duraleigh]

Hmmm, at last, the real magic bullet we've been looking for!

Hope springs eternal on us all finding the easy way out.

Tossing these miracles into your pool will only delay the reality we must all face sooner or later......we must learn how to test and dose properly if we want long term results in keeping our water crystal clear and sanitary.

[NWMNMom]

Kim, I ALSO found something that works wonders for cleaning when I toss it in my pool. Wow, imagine our astonishment when we found out that this thing we had just lying around the house was really good for something after all! In just a few minutes a day, our pool is kept sparkling clear and the best part is that I don't have to plug it in or recharge batteries - it runs on PIZZA! It's my 13 year old son and a jug of bleach!!! Can you stand it???!!!!

[waterbear]

Floatron is a solar powered ionizer...Austraila has totally banned their use in spas and in pools can only be used with normal FC levels.
The instruction manual
http://www.floatron.com/instruct.htm
states that you must maintain at least a 1 ppm FC and possibly higher and that it puts .3 ppm copper into the water! I can put .3 ppm copper into my water if I wanted to (I don't) much more cheaply with a bottle of copper based algaecide!

[DavidD]

Hmmm, at last, the real magic bullet we've been looking for!

Hope springs eternal on us all finding the easy way out.

Tossing these miracles into your pool will only delay the reality we must all face sooner or later......we must learn how to test and dose properly if we want long term results in keeping our water crystal clear and sanitary.

Kim,

I just wanted you to see Dave S.'s comments one more time. How true and to the point. Your new gismo may in fact have worked this time, but next time you will be back to square one, minus a few bucks and with a few more "gotchas" to deal with.

Dave D

[PoolDoc]

Easy, gently, folks.

I appreciate your vigilence, but I did some checking, and it's not at all clear to me that "Love2Swim" is spamming.

Please keep in mind, that for people who don't know how to operate a pool successfully and economically with chlorine alone, a copper source like the Floatron can seem "awesome".

If they have a vinyl liner (as Love2Swim does) and dark hair (dunno about that), then something like the Floatron may indeed work very well, at least compared to what they'd been doing before. If you'll check Love2Swim's other posts here, it sounds like maybe they've been pretty casual about pool chemistry. Among other things, they (AND their pool dealer) aren't clear on the difference between pH and alkalinity.

My guess is that what Love2Swim needs is information about an even more "AWESOME" way to care for her pool.

Ben
PoolDoc

[traceyb]

Wow guys. I asked "love2swim" how the floatron worked? I have yet to have that response, however I'm all for keeping my pool up the "right" way and avoid costly troubles later. I found a wonderful lady who runs a pool store that DIDN"T sell me my pool and has already saved me a bunch of $.
Instead of hundreds of pounds of soooo many chemicals, she had me add stabilizer and baking soda along w/ chlorinne. I am taking h2o samples to her daily until she says I am ready to SHOCK. I have only had the pool full for 3 full days and an evening of another. What do you all think? (and not about the floatron.........I've decided to nix that for now)