pool care with the nature 2?

[Baqout]

My friend has a nature 2 and she said it works.
Will my blonde hair turn green if I use it? Do you really need less chlorine?
any information will help me. she said she uses powdered shock with it. I would think both kinds are the same.

[CarlD]

My friend has a nature 2 and she said it works.
Will my blonde hair turn green if I use it? Do you really need less chlorine?
any information will help me. she said she uses powdered shock with it. I would think both kinds are the same.

Lots of questions about the N2.

Does it work? Well, that's debatable. HOW it works is it is an erosion system and the N2 "active ingredients" are a silver and a copper compound. Both inhibit algae growth. Algae "eats" your chlorine so inhibiting it reduces chlorine usage.

But why bother? EVEN if it works, you need a new N2 cartridge every season--that's about $100. Does it SAVE you $100 a season? They claim it cuts chlorine usage in half--if it does then you have to be using a LOT of chlorine For me $100, EASILY buys the whole season's bleach.

So in a dollar evaluation, N2 costs you money rather than saves it.

Sure you use less chlorine. What good is that if it doesn't save you money?

Copper is notorious for turning blonde hair green. That's why you don't want it.

There is no such thing as "shock". Shock in pool maintenance is a verb, not a noun. She's simply using a pre-measured powered chlorine.

[aylad]

But why bother? EVEN if it works, you need a new N2 cartridge every season--that's about $100. Does it SAVE you $100 a season? They claim it cuts chlorine usage in half--if it does then you have to be using a LOT of chlorine For me $100, EASILY buys the whole season's bleach.

Don't forget what you're going to pay for metals sequestrant and ascorbic acid once the copper stains the pool.....

Janet

[PFlynn]

My friend has a nature 2 and she said it works.
Will my blonde hair turn green if I use it? Do you really need less chlorine?
any information will help me. she said she uses powdered shock with it. I would think both kinds are the same.

I know this thread is old, but I've been gone for a while and can't resist.
I had a N2 cartridge when my pool was first built and screwed around for 2 and a half seasons before coming to the conclusion it had no benefit except to the people selling it. Once I just switched to a conventional chlorine regimen it solved most of the problems I had been fighting with the N2.

N2 provided a very expensive lesson in snake-oil.

[donaldm823]

My friend has a nature 2 and she said it works.
Will my blonde hair turn green if I use it? Do you really need less chlorine?
any information will help me. she said she uses powdered shock with it. I would think both kinds are the same.

My new pool came with Nature 2, and I removed it halfway through the pool's second season (Aug 07)(vessel leak). I found that running at the low chlorine levels needed to save money per the Nature 2 recommendations (they recommend 0.5ppm), your chlorine free inventory is so low that it may not battle an immediate chlorine demand (like a big rain storm, lawn work, pollen or kids). After battling some algae cloudiness in July with several chlorine shocks, I raised my chlorine to a 2-3ppm range and all my problems went away for good. I ended up removing the Nature 2 the following month due to a vessel leak and I saw no change in pool quality (of course my chlorine level was now at 2ppm). As for green hair-I never had a problem with the issue and my wife has blond hair and swims daily-I believe the Nature 2 copper levels are too low to cause that issue.