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Best explanation I've heard so far T&C.I use bromine and find it easier. I spent 8 days in Daytona (Bike Week), home for three then 8 more in Ft Lauderdale (spring break with my daughter). Never touched the tub, came home opened up to perfect water.
I disagree with Spatech in that you are converting chlorine to bromine even though there is chlorine in bromine pucks. You will not have more chlorine as chlorine is a small % of bromine. I think he's thinking that bromine should be 3-5ppm whereas chlorine is 1-3ppm. Being that bromine is not stright chlorine, the result is actually less and the bromine salts is what is sanitizing.
As for the reason most chemical companies put chlorine in their bromine pucks, when HOCL comes in contact with a bromamine, it regenerates it back to HOBr.
I've given hundreds of people tutorials on water care suing both methods (not that I’m a chem expert, just someone with a good deal of practical experience). The issue here is not which is better. This poster stated a problem with a reaction to chlorine. Now I know when many of us read such a statement we may think there is a good chance that is not the real issue but I'm going to assume that is the true cause of the problem and merely was pointing out that the bromine pucks they want to switch to probably have a good amount of chlorine in them, about 25% typically if I'm not mistaken. So I disagree with Steve when he says that "I disagree with Spatech in that you are converting chlorine to bromine even though there is chlorine in bromine pucks. You will not have more chlorine as chlorine is a small % of bromine. ". I believe you'll on average have much more chlorine in the water in a bromine cared for spa at any given point in soaking time (not counting the time after you add chlorine where we know it spikes and then dissipates). If the chlorine were not an issue you can argue which is preferred but if someone is trying to avoid sitting in a spa with chlorine then switching to standard Bromine tabs is not going to help IMO. If their real problem is with Ph then switching methods also won't matter.
If you are adding chlorine only after soaking, what happens if you have gone 4 or 5 days or a week without using the spa? Obviously you are now bathing in water with a zero sanitizer reading which is not recommended right?[/i]I must be missing something...
Thanks Steve,You are forgetting one thing.....he's a man! and trying to get a man to go see the dr is like trying to get blood out of a stone...lol
Steve, here's what you're missing. I'll speak for myself but I'll bet most other dichlor users would agree:If I miss a couple of days soaking, no problem with water...clear and fresh. Longer than that, I will open and drop a couple of tsp. in and circulate for 10 min. or so...good for a couple more days, if I don't want to soak. Otherwise, if I plan on being out of town for a week or so, I'll dump up to 3 tbsp or so in, let it circulate with the cover open for 30 min. or so, then close it up and leave...and come back to fresh water. Longer than a week or so, I've got friends lined up to soak and dose in my absence. This is really more difficult to explain than to execute...and it wasn't hard to explain... 8-)
I really do understand both systems but with that said, I can't see how a chlorine system can be easier at all.
Well that does make a difference...As with any skin condition, this needs to be treated first. A hot tub in most cases, regardless of the sanitizer or products used, will irritate a skin condition if entering the spa with it not fully healed.I know this isn't what you want to hear but I doubt any product will help until this is treated medically first.Your Doctor can best answer the question on how to treat it and once fully healed, he may be able to enjoy it once again Dawn.