Solar-Breeze - Robotic Solar Pool Skimmer

Salt is essential to life.  Without salt in your diet, many of the chemical processes of digestion and nutrient absorption are compromised.

What about salt outside the body – not consumed?  Sea Salt is touted to have all sorts of benefits.  Bathing in Sea Salts will help to detoxify your body, calm inflammatory skin conditions, slough off dead cells and generally leave your skin feeling more vital.  Does swimming in a saltwater pool have the same health and beauty benefits as bathing with Sea Salts?  The answer is all in the numbers.

A salt-water pool uses a chlorine generator to take crystalline salts and break them into Hypochlorous Acid and Sodium Hypochlorite.   The Hypochlorous Acid is the Chlorine that sanitizes the pool water and impedes the growth of algae and bacteria.  The two chemicals convert back into salt and then are broken out again as they go through the electrolysis of the chlorine generator.  While they are recombined, we feel the salt (NaCl) in the pool.

People argue that a saltwater pool is more natural and chlorine free.  This is a common misconception.

A salt water pool starts with crystalline Sodium Chloride (think table-salt).  It looks like this.....

The chlorine generator un-bundles the salt to produce Hypochlorous Acid and Sodium Hypochlorite.

1. To swim in.  Let’s get that one out of the way right off the top.  If you don’t swim, perhaps you should learn.  Not only is it fun, but it is a good survival skill.
2. Less grass to cut and gravel to rake.  Pools take up space.  Although they aren’t maintenance-free, they are less work than a lawn.
3. Water is soothing to look at.  The oasis-effect is undeniably peaceful.
4. Use it for testing in the “float or sink?” game.
5. It’s easier to explain the pool boy.

Many Solar-Breeze owners live in the No-Snow Zone.  We welcome cooler temperatures but can still have dinner outside by the pool. 

Winter brings shorter days, and less direct solar rays.  When the sun hits pholtovoltaic panels at an angle of less than 90 degrees, they still function to turn solar energy into an electrical current, however the amount of current produced is less.  For the Solar-Breeze, this means shorter operating times as less energy is produced during the day and less charge is available on the battery during the night.

Algae is your pool's enemy. Before you attack, clean and remove the debris, balance the water chemistry and identify the algae.