SnapBoogey Posted June 28, 2012 Report Share Posted June 28, 2012 Is it possible to convert a 2 year old bromine hot tub to a salt water hot tub? If so, what is involved? Does a manufacturer like Hayward make hot tub saltwater converters? What do I need to know? What do I need to do? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arches2 Posted June 29, 2012 Report Share Posted June 29, 2012 Buy a Technichlor, Drain it, Install technichlor, fill, add salt (and balance), enjoy! I have bromine becuase i didn't want to spend the money on the technichlor when i first got the tub, but i may change over at some point though bromine is working well for me so far. I have a friend with a colorchlor (same as technichlor but with lights) and he says it works great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walleye Posted June 30, 2012 Report Share Posted June 30, 2012 I did some reading online about Technichlor / Colorchlor. It seems to be a real deal? I would be interested to hear from the more experienced members what their opinions are. If this is what it claims to be, I think I will be purchasing one. Waterbear / Chem Geek and others, what do you say about them? THX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waterbear Posted July 1, 2012 Report Share Posted July 1, 2012 No experience with them directly but from what I have read and heard from some posts here in the forum they seem to do the job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chem geek Posted July 6, 2012 Report Share Posted July 6, 2012 Ditto. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walleye Posted July 6, 2012 Report Share Posted July 6, 2012 Well I am about to find out. I ordered one and it should be here in a few days. I will keep everyone posted on this. I am cautiously optimistic as I have found nothing but good reports. Trouble is it is very difficult to find many reports at all. After it arrives I will do the conversion and hopefully all goes well. I ordered a supply of Mineral salt (not needed or recommended) but since my grand daughter has excema (SP) I figured it can't hurt. One question is the manufacture says not to ad CYA inhibitor but a user of the product says I should. Any input on this? THX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chem geek Posted July 8, 2012 Report Share Posted July 8, 2012 You'll want some CYA, but not very much. 20 or 30 ppm is a decent target. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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