Ozonator.......What does it do. How does it do it......Do I do anything?

[freeman9243]

OZONATOR.......I know mine has one but what does it do. how does it do it and do I just leave it to do its thing?

[Dr. Spa™ Ret.]

It creates ozone from oxygen.

It does this either through ultra violet light, or corona discharge.

[chem geek]

And the ozone that is produced oxidizes bather waste and also disinfects, but only for the water that gets circulated so you still need a residual disinfectant in the water such as chlorine, bromine, Nature² silver ions with MPS, etc.

[Isaac-1]

You should also be aware that Ozonators have a limited life depending on model this may be 2-3 years before they drop off produciton of Ozone (some new models may last a little longer), and most have no indiction if they are just running and not producing ozone.  There are glass reactive test tubes to detect ozone, but they cost about $20 per single use test kit, so it often makes more sense just to replace or refresh (some have a changable chip / module ) an ozonator of questionable age.