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Originally Posted by allaircooled
I love my salt water pool. I rarely check the parameters and never worry about adding chlorine. Check out troublefreepool.com It's the pelican parts of pools, meaning lots of experts and info and maintaining your pool the easy way.
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Yeah, should have mentioned that. I check it once every couple weeks, and occasionaly run a "super chlorinate" (usually the generator runs for a % of the pump run, mine's at 50) which runs 100% pump time for 8 hrs, and don't worry. I do add acid 1x or 2x season.
Almost never shock. 3-4 bags of salt a year, more if it rains a LOT and we get bad dillution.
In going on 4 years we've never had any issue related to pool chemistry at all. Shock when we close in October, open in April, water's clear. Start pump and go.
The stability of the system is a great advantage, really. So with the 3-400 every say 3 years and the salt, my cost to run is 150/yr plus mechanical maint.
I know that the cheap generators are available for Hayward, I'd look to see if they're available online for any other system you'd consider.