How Does the ClearBlue Mineral Water System Work?
The ClearBlue Mineral Water System uses three key minerals to keep your hot tub or pool clean and healthy:
- Copper – The primary ingredient in many algaecides, copper helps control algae growth and keeps your water blue and clear.
- Zinc – Also effective at controlling algae, zinc helps prevent staining so your pool stays blue and beautiful longer.
- Silver – Known for its antibacterial properties and long used in medical settings to prevent infection, silver helps eliminate harmful bacteria in your water.
ClearBlue ionizes these minerals and releases small, controlled amounts into your pool or hot tub, ensuring the entire system stays clean, clear, and healthy.
Benefits of the ClearBlue Mineral Water System
The ClearBlue Mineral Water System offers several key advantages:
- pH Neutral
Unlike many sanitizers (such as salt chlorinators), ClearBlue does not affect your pool’s pH. This reduces the need for extra balancing chemicals and helps your sanitizers work more effectively. - Gentle on Skin
With a properly balanced pH, your water won’t dry out your skin and will feel fresher and more comfortable. - Less Chlorine Needed
ClearBlue uses far less chlorine or bromine than traditional systems. That means cost savings, no green hair, and less fading or discoloration of bathing suits. - Lower Operating Costs
This innovative technology actually reduces the overall cost of maintaining and purifying your pool, costing just pennies a day. - Resistant to Sunlight
While other ionization systems lose effectiveness in direct sun, the ClearBlue ionizer maintains consistent mineral levels, even on the brightest days.
Mineral spa hydrotherapy
ClearBlue mineral spas infuse your water with natural minerals that leave your skin feeling soft and refreshed after every soak.
Cut the chlorine in half
Mineral pools require about half as much chlorine as saltwater or traditional chlorine pools, according to the EPA, NSF, Health Canada, and other governing bodies.
Forget about algaecide
ClearBlue minerals are highly effective at controlling algae, so you’ll rarely need to add algaecide, no matter how much sun your pool gets.
Perfectly balanced
Chlorine and salt chlorinators affect your water’s pH balance, so you constantly have to adjust it up or down with chemicals. ClearBlue mineral ions are completely neutral, helping your pH stay in range much longer.
Safe for your property
Salt is corrosive to some pool equipment and structures, and many manufacturers will void your warranty if you use salt. ClearBlue, on the other hand, is completely harmless to your pool equipment, structure, and landscaping.
Easy on your wallet
ClearBlue mineral pools cost less overall than both saltwater and 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.