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Exactly. And being a complete Batman nut, I have in the past said that too myself....which reminds me of a question I've been meaning to pick a few brains around here about, I have a switch that I'd like to use to open a panel. I've been playing with the idea for a while on how to do this and wonder if the motors that some spas use for pop up speakers (they are motors right?) would work? Here's the switch:I'd like to have it slide up a panel or picture.
Tat, If you've never washed the under side of your cover with a chlorine wash, it's time. Top sides of spa too. Maybe do it a second time in a day or two. Then check for the smell. If you put your nose right over where the bubbles come up there should be some ozone smell. If not, get 'em to check the ozone.
Hi TTL!In another post I had tried to describe a method to "capture" the bubbles coming from the ozonator pump train so that you can then "smell" the collected gas to determine if ozone was present. It involved a glass jar or tumbler, inverted, held over the bubbles until the gas displaced the water, covering the opening and raising the container to the surface, putting it right-side up again and then smelling (quickly) the gas.That works, but I wanted to mention another approach that you and others might find easier. Obtain a small-diameter tube that is long enough to go from a perhaps a half-foot above the water in your tub down to the "ozone" bubbles that are coming from the bottom of your tub. This can be as simple as a 1/2" piece of copper piping or PVC. It can be larger than 1/2", but that may cause some problems. Using the pipe, place one end over a spot the bubbles are emerging and raise the pipe to the vertical position. Your goal is to get enough bubbles to rise within the pipe so that the air in the pipe that is above your water level gets replaced by the gas of the bubbles. Depending on how many bubbles you are getting, this may take a while - or it may not work at all. But if you hold the pipe in place and give it a minute or so and then start smelling the end of the pipe, sooner or later you should smell something other than "air" - if you do, then it pretty much has to be ozone (regardless of whether it smells funky, like watermelons, clean, etc. - those are all sort of subjective descriptions that may not apply for all "smellers").The key is that you need to wait long enough so that the air in the pipe / tube (above the water level) is pretty much displaced by the bubbles from your ozonator.Best,Vermonter
Take a funnel, attatch a length of hose to it's spout, invert the funnel over the O3 port, and the run the hose/tub up to smell for ozone. similair to the sniffer funnels you see dangling from the bumber of Gas Co vans.
Well, if you wanted to take some time to build a o3 sniffer and collector, use an inverted funnel attatched to some piping. On the other other end, would rigging of some sort of "seperator" work? I'm thinking on making a bend in the pipe that allows the water to drain off, but allow the o3 to rise off above it and into a collection chamber? This could be something as simple as 90 degree 'T" or collection to bowl /chamber with a slow bottom drain. or pehaps something like a mix between what brewers use to watch the outgas/fermentation from a vat, (Breman help me out here...) or perhaps a diverter valve similliar to the those found at the end of a snorkel?
I'm guessing you may have built a bong or two back in the day?
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