Nitro Posted September 10, 2008 Report Share Posted September 10, 2008 Hi all, Has anyone had experience with the Spa Pilot, good or bad? Also, what does SWG's do to CYA? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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beernut Posted September 12, 2008 Report Share Posted September 12, 2008 Anyone? Perhaps you could read down the forum about a page and check out this thread. Also, searching is your friend on this and any other forum. Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitro Posted September 12, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 12, 2008 Anyone? Perhaps you could read down the forum about a page and check out this thread. Also, searching is your friend on this and any other forum. Mark I don't see anywhere in that thread answering whether or not CYA is raised by using SWG's, which is my main question. Maybe you could point me to where it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxemily Posted September 12, 2008 Report Share Posted September 12, 2008 In my perusing of this forum, the only mention of CYA is in association with the addition of dichlor or trichlor. I snooped around a bit (read that as Googled around) and found this; paragraph 9. I would like Chem Geek to add his thoughts since he is a proponent of a CYA levels in spas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beernut Posted September 13, 2008 Report Share Posted September 13, 2008 I don't see anywhere in that thread answering whether or not CYA is raised by using SWG's, which is my main question. Maybe you could point me to where it is. Hmm, seemed like input on users experiences with the Spa-Pilot was your main question and the question about CYA was an "also." In any event, CYA is not created or used up by a SWG. SWGers take salt and break out the chlorine basically. Spa-Pilot recommends having a CYA level of 50 and colorchlor doesn't suggest the need for any. There is a suggestion that having no CYA *could* help contribute to corrosion but each case where that occured also had very high FC levels (usually because the owner left the SWG on 100% and forgot about it). According to the Spa-Pilot manual CYA is only needed in outdoor uncovered spas but since other benefits of CYA are found all over this forum and also due to the potential protection from corrosion it seems best to have a CYA level of at least 20 and up to about 50 with the Spa-Pilot. The Spa-Pilot startup salt has CYA in it to bring a spa 400 gal or less to about that level. Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitro Posted September 13, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 13, 2008 Hmm, seemed like input on users experiences with the Spa-Pilot was your main question and the question about CYA was an "also." Either way it was a question that was not answered in that thread, which was the reason I posted it. I asked about people's experience to see if anymore people used it. In any event, CYA is not created or used up by a SWG. SWGers take salt and break out the chlorine basically. Spa-Pilot recommends having a CYA level of 50 and colorchlor doesn't suggest the need for any. There is a suggestion that having no CYA *could* help contribute to corrosion but each case where that occured also had very high FC levels (usually because the owner left the SWG on 100% and forgot about it). According to the Spa-Pilot manual CYA is only needed in outdoor uncovered spas but since other benefits of CYA are found all over this forum and also due to the potential protection from corrosion it seems best to have a CYA level of at least 20 and up to about 50 with the Spa-Pilot. The Spa-Pilot startup salt has CYA in it to bring a spa 400 gal or less to about that level Thanks for that answer. Although, I don't know why you just didn't post that to begin with. In any event, correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like the Spa Pilot is the ideal low maintanance sanitizer. But there doesn't seem to be many people using it, or talking about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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