Intex questions

[PoolDoc]

Plug the ozone generator . . . it's not doing anything useful.

Pool owners don't realize that ozone is more toxic than chlorine gas. In Germany, ozone is used in commercial pools. And I think most public aquariums in the US use it. But doing so requires special, very expen$ive equipment AND full time trained operators to keep it safe. US ozone systems for pools are 'made safe' by making so little ozone that there's no danger to you . . . or to any bacteria in the pool!

Basically, they are a scam. What's worse is that most US systems aerate the water, and strip carbonate alkalinity, which causes plaster damage to concrete pools!

[Brokk]

Plug the ozone generator . . . it's not doing anything useful.
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I can block off the tube, but what little O3 it might be generating would be left inside the device. Would that be harmful? (like corrosion)

I am concerned about unplugging the Ozone generator completely, because the machine might throw an error and refuse to work at all.

[PoolDoc]

I don't know. Try it and see.

It may just tell you the ozone is unplugged.

[Brokk]

I don't know. Try it and see.

It may just tell you the ozone is unplugged.

It has a light dedicated to telling you when the O3 generator needs replacing. However, since you say it likely produces so little, I opted for trying to plug the tube. It took me three tries before I found something that worked, but I have finally stopped the bubbles. I have the auto cleaner hooked up now, but unfortunately not much dirt in the pool for it to clean. We'll see how it goes.

FYI, I have well water. Your comments at the beginning that people should read, say this site can't help you if you have well water. I suggest a small shift in words. I think what you were trying to say is that this site can't help you to solve problems caused by well water, or directly related to well water. Something like that. I am fortunate not to have hard water or iron in my water. However my water is highly acidic. I think our lowest professional testing result came in around 5.5 PH. I think it's gotten lower than that myself. For 14,500 gallons of well water, it took 1 box of soda wash and 2 boxes of borax before the test strips nudged above 6.2. However, they were old strips. It was probably 6.2 before I added the second box of borax. It's now safely above 7.2 after a third box of borax was added. (Yes, I bought new strips, the old ones weren't registering PH or stabilizer correctly)