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[KurtV]

I would RUN and not walk away from that person since they do NOT know what they are talking about! Bleach does not put metals in your pool....Ionizers, Nature 2, copper based algaecides, and some fill water do!
Tell them they need to brush up on their pool chemistry and learn some facts!
Your salt water generator is manufacturing sodium hypochlorite in the salt cell.....BLEACH!

Except for the sodium.

[waterbear]

Except for the sodium.

The sodium comes from the addtion of salt. If you want to get technical the cell is manufacturing chlorine gas which then forms hypoclorous acid and hypochorite ions. There are already sodium ions in the water. In effect the pool water is a very dilute sodium hypochorite solution no matter what form of chlorine is added if there are sodium ions in the water. (a bit oversimplified)

Let's not confuse a newbie with semantics!

[KurtV]

Evan,
Just a joke. I don't want to get technical (and certainly not with you, that wouldn't be a fair fight).

[PatL34]

K

I tried to explain what happens in a SWCG in the post below, and Waterbear gave you a pretty good picture. I wrote it for the newbies with SWCGs. Been running one since April 1998.

http://www.poolforum.com/pf2/showthread.php?t=1226

Hope this helps.

Pat