Quote Originally Posted by tphaggerty View Post
Forget the floater, buy and store a few bottles of bleach. I do that anyway (most SWG users do) for very heavy loads (such as spring pollen season). If your SWG goes bad, you can easily maintain your pool using BBB for as long as it takes to get it fixed.
Look, I hardly EVER use a floater. But if someone wants peace of mind about an SWG failing while he's away, I think a floater set to min chlorine is a heckuva lot better than an in-line puck chlorinator. It costs all of $10. --less than the bypass fittings originally discussed. It's simple, it's easy, it can be pulled out instantly.

I live and preach B-B-B but if you are going away, it's tricky to use bleach without an assistant or a peristaltic pump. Some have done it by putting a tiny hole in a bleach bottle and tying it to a ladder--but I haven't tried that. For a short time, a floater is a cheap, effective way to leave your pool.