How Does the ClearBlue Mineral Water System Work?
The system uses the following three minerals to clean your water and maintain your hot tub or pool:
- Copper: Copper is the active ingredient in many algaecides. The ClearBlue System uses copper to control algae and keep your water blue and clear.
- Zinc: Zinc is also used to control algae. Plus, it will prevent your pool from staining, so remains blue and beautiful for a longer period of time.
- Silver: Silver eliminates bacteria. For centuries, it has been used in medical equipment to prevent infections. In your pool, it helps to kill off harmful bacteria.
The ClearBlue Mineral Water System ionizes these minerals and releases small amounts of them into your pool water, so that the entire hot tub or pool stays clean and healthy.
Benefits of the ClearBlue Mineral Water System
The ClearBlue Mineral Water System has many advantages:
- pH Neutral: While many sanitizers (like salt chlorinators) will alter your pool’s pH, the ClearBlue Mineral Water System has no effect on pH. This will save you from buying chemicals necessary to balance your pH levels and also make sanitizers more effective.
- Protects Skin Health: When your pool is the proper pH, it won’t dry out your skin. Also, it will feel fresher and more comfortable.
- Reduces Chlorine: The ClearBlue System uses much less chlorine or bromine than other systems. This saves you money and makes your pool water more friendly for your hair (no more green hair!) and avoids discoloring bathing suits.
- Provides Cost Savings: The ClearBlue System is innovative pool technology that actually reduces the cost to maintain and purify your pool. It costs just pennies a day.
- Sunlight Resistant: Other ionization systems are less effective in direct sunlight. The ClearBlue ionizer maintains consistent mineral concentration even during the brightest days.
Mineral spa hydrotherapy
ClearBlue mineral spas infuse the water with natural minerals that leave your skin feeling soft after every soak.
Cut the chlorine in half
Mineral pools require about half as much chlorine as either salt water or chlorine pools according to the EPA, NSF, Health Canada and other governing bodies.
Forget about algaecide
ClearBlue minerals are very effective at controlling algae. You will rarely need to add algaecide, no matter how much sun you get.
Perfectly balanced
Chlorine and salt chlorinators affect the pH balance of the water. This means you constantly have to adjust the balance up or down using chemicals. ClearBlue mineral ions are completely neutral so pH stays in range longer.
Safe for your property
Salt is corrosive to some pool equipment and structures. Many manufacturers will void your warranty if you use salt. ClearBlue is completely harmless to your pool equipment, structure and landscaping.
Easy on your wallet
ClearBlue mineral pools cost less overall than salt water or traditional chlorine pools.
Where does it go?
The ClearBlue system consists of a controller, a clear PVC tee and a set of mineral plates called an electrode. The PVC tee is plumbed into your plumbing on the line that runs heated, filtered water into your pool or spa. The electrode is threaded into the tee and is connected to the controller with an electrical cable.
Where do the minerals come from?
The controller charges the two plates of the electrode with a precise electrical current. As the electrical current jumps from one plate to the other through the water, microscopic mineral particles are released. The electricity gives these particles a positive charge or ‘ionizes’ them which converts them into mineral ions.
What do the minerals do?
Positively charged mineral ions are attracted to negatively charged bacteria and algae cells and kill them by changing their molecular structure. The dead cells combine into chunks that are collected by the filter.