New owner. Off line chlorinator question.

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[tkim6599]

tkim -- Welcome to the Pool Forum and thank you very much for becoming a subscriber. We really appreciate that as those subscriptions help to keep PF online. Thanks again and hope you enjoy the forum!

I like to support sites that edumacate me and save me time/money/hair-pulling. How many posts will need to be reviewed before my posts are automatically approved?

[PoolDoc]

I think it's 3 or 4 -- it will auto-magically boost you within 4 hours of reaching the threshold. But I just did it manually.

If your pump is ON and water is flowing through the chlorinator, that counts. I don't know your system, so you'll have to make sure that's happening when you vacuum.

However . . . rather than running 1x for 12 hours, it's much better to run 2x for 6 hours, even apart from the vacuuming.

[tkim6599]

This where water line goes into the chlorinator.



This is where it feeds out.




I'm trying to figure out if replacing it with a Rainbow in line chlorinator is easy enough for me to do, or do I need to call the pool people to install. I'm a little leery of doing so, since they were the ones who installed the chlorinator this way in the first place.

I can see replacing the connection between the pump and filter since there was a hole drilled into it to install the venturi scoop, but what about the hole that was drilled into the return line? do I plug it with something?

[PoolDoc]

Yeah, installing a Rainbow 320 would be a bit of a hassle since they plumbed your pool with PE pipe. Using a trichlor floater might be a better idea - just make sure it doesn't end up 'living' in some hidey-hole next to the ladder or something. Liners get bleached that way.

Your installers didn't do you any great favors with the way they install your NewAge thingey, either. Leaving an unused chlorinator in place is not a great idea, but in your case, unless it may not cause problems, and removing it might.