solarchlor does it work ?

[waterbear]

A solar powered salt generator is NOT going to produce enought chlorine by itlsef. This is why they add the ionizer to it. They don't say on their website but I bet they are depending on a .5 ppm residual FC becuase of the ionizer. In fact, nowhere on the website do they actually say what the output is in mg/l or ppm Free Chlorine! They do state that the unit can chlorinate a 10k pool in 3.5 hours but don't say what level of FC will be produced. Any takers that it's only .5 ppm?

The other thing that bothers me about the unit is that the salt level required (and therefore the chlorine output of the unit) is solely adjusted by the salt level in the pool and that a larger pool will require up to 6000 ppm salt and possibly additional salt in the unit itself.
From all I have seen this unit is really a solar powered ionizer that might be able to produce the .5 ppm residual chlorine that most ionizer systems recommend in this country (and that we know is NOT really enough!)

The 'Salt Shock" product is (to quote from their website) "is an oxygen-based compound specially formulated to enhance salt-water pools and is safe to use on all types of pool surfaces and water sanitizers."

sounds like MPS to me!

"SaltShock should be used weekly with SolarChlor or any other Chlorine generator system. SaltShock is used at a rate of 1 lb.
per 10k gallons."


sounds even more like MPS to me, since MPS is dosed weekly at 1 lb per 10K gallon!
EDIT: to their credit $15/3 lbs is pretty much the normal retail price of MPS at a pool store.
Just my 2 cents worth.