Salt Chlorine Generator 101

The salt cell uses a process known as electrolysis to produce chlorine. Its important to take note of what lights are lit up on the cell to know if its working or not. Every couple hours the cell will go through a process to test the water temperature, flow rate, and salt level. The lights will flash green/red and then settle once the test is over. The salt, flow and cell lights all need to be solid green to be producing chlorine. If they aren't solid green, the cell will give an explanation of what is wrong.

Operating the Salt Cell

Salt cells are pretty straight forward on operation. The bottom row shows your "sanitizer output" which is how often the cell is running and producing chlorine. If you have 2 solid lights you are running the cell 40% of the time or 2 out of every 5 minutes. If you have two blinking lights, it means you're running it at a single digit output or 4% in this case. The higher the percentage the more chlorine it will produce. You can adjust the output by pressing the more/less buttons on the bottom. Pressing and holding the more and less buttons will turn on boost mode for 24 hours where it runs at 100% for a day. The lights will scroll continuously in this mode.

How to Clean A Salt Cell

Sometimes salt cells will get calcium built up on the blades inside and cause the cell not to work. If the cell light is flashing green it might need to be cleaned. Here is how!

Salt Water Chemistry

Salt water pools are very similar to chlorine pools and usually less maintanence to take care of. The chemistry of the water does have some tendancies that are important to watch out for and can easily go unoticed.

How to Test the Salt Cell

Sometimes there are instances where it seems like the salt cell is not producing chlroine. If all the appropriate lights are solid green on the salt cell and your chlorine is constantly 0, it might not be working properly. One thing you should check first is your Cya level. Cya is like sunscreen for chlorine so if the level is too low, your chlorine will get eaten up by the sun very quickly. If thats in check, here are some ways to test the cell.