Zodiac C Series Owner's Manual

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HOW YOUR ZODIAC CHLORINATOR WORKSCommon salt (sodium chloride) is made up of two elements, sodium and chlorine. When your ZodiacSaltwater Chlorinator is installed a measured quantity of salt is dissolved in the pool water to make it slightlysalty. As part of the daily filtration cycle, the pool water is passed through a Zodiac electrolysis cell toproduce chlorine which is dissolved instantly into the water. Your chlorinator also produces ozone in the cell,as a by-product.In simple, non-technical terms, the chlorine instantly starts to destroy bacteria, viruses, and algae and indoing this, reverts to dissolved salt. This cycle continues, with more new chlorine being produced from thesalt water in the chlorinator cell, sanitising the pool, and changing once more back to dissolved salt.Everyday, when the chlorinator unit and the filtration system are switched on, dust and debris are trapped bythe filter, and your chlorinator sanitises the water to make safe and sparkling cleanPreferred Water Chemistry ReadingsOPERATING HINTSA) Filtration and Chlorination System Operating PeriodsRun your filtration and chlorination system for at least 6 to 8 hours per day. For best efficiency, operate thesystem in the cool hours of the evening, or the early morning. During very hot weather it might be necessaryto run the system for around 10 hours per day, but in winter, it is only necessary to run the filtration system foraround 4 hours per day.B) Chlorine Output SettingsMake sure that you adjust the chlorine output of your Chlorinator to 80% or more. If you cannot achieve thisoutput, the salt concentration is probably low, and more salt should be added to the pool. (See Problem J)For a typical home pool of about 60,000 litres, addition of one 25kg bag of salt will increase the ZodiacSaltwater Chlorinator meter reading by about 10%.C) Free (Residual) Chlorine ReadingThe free chlorine residual in the pool should be around 1 ppm - 3 ppm. Increasing the daily operating periodof the system increases the free chlorine reading, and a shorter operating period reduces the chlorinereading. Likewise, operating the chlorinator with an output reading of 100% will produce a higher chlorinereading than operating the chlorinator at a lower setting of, say, 50%.