Perma Salt / Permasalt Ionizer system w/ Activate, Preparate, Klairavate Info!

[PoolDoc]

It is a fairly typical standard copper / silver ionizer system sold in conjunction with with some expensive blended chemicals, under the names, Activate, Klairivate, Preparate, and Winterate. It seems to be sold more by above-ground dealers, like "Family Leisure" on their Permasalt page rather than by in-ground builders or dealers.

This 'system' not only adds copper and silver to your pool, like a standard ionizer, it ALSO requires you to add an expensive salt mixture. They state that the Permasalt system "does not convert salt into chlorine" which left me wondering, why add the salt in the first place, if you're not going to use it?

The answer, it turns out, is found in their claim that the salt improves copper/silver ionization.

Just to be clear: the Permasalt system is NOT a saltwater chlorination system (SWCG), though it DOES use chlorine in low doses.

The "a specially blended family of ancillary products" they want to sell you include:

Preparate - "a Sodium based Salt that is enhanced with not only Borates, but also metal removers and cyanuric acid". Thus:

• table salt
• borax
• chlorine stabilizer
• metal mystery products (possibly alum or aluminum sulfate)

Activate - "combines both, DiChlor and Oxone". Thus

• dichlor (sodium dichloroisocyanurate)
• Oxone (Dupont's Oxone non-sanitizing potassium monopersulfate)

Klairate -"a natural enzyme water clarifier". Thus:

• an unidentified mystery product. It may have some value; it may be useless but harmless; or it may mess up your pool.