I'm assuming you're talking about the products sold by this company: http://www.eclearusa.com/ ?
Making claims like this:
(archived - 20120725 => thread 18271)The E-clearŪ ‘Chlorine Free’ New Generation 7 series - provides multiple forms of toxic free oxygen, which splits into 4 powerful oxidisers. (01) - (02) - (0H) - (H202).
We, or at least I, get sort of tired of dealing with goop like this -- it's not your fault; years of mainsteam media misinformation about chemistry, combined with very poor elementary and middle school science education has left most people totally vulnerable to nonsense claims like these.
Let me just dissect the quote a bit. O2 is normal oxygen; OH is the hyper-active, but rarely present, hydroxyl radicial; H2O2 is hydrogen peroxide, and O1 is 'singlet oxygen'. I've linked all the terms to their Wikipedia articles.
ALL of these forms of oxygen are toxic; even plain oxygen under certain conditions. But, of more significance to you, NONE constitute a pool sanitizer or a algaecide. (If the company has claimed they do, in writing, if you'll get us a copy, I'll turn it over to Chem_Geek. He's familiar with EPA procedures to get those sorts of false claims fixed.
I'll also ask Chem_Geek to take a look; he has more energy (and more knowledge) for dissecting this sort of nonsense.
But, as far as your pool goes, you simply need to remove the thing, and choose another way to sanitize your pool. Basically, your choices are chlorine or PHMB (Baquacil, Softswim, etc.)
Good luck!
If you think hydrogen peroxide is non-toxic, go buy a jug of Baquacil oxidizer (27% peroxide) and take tiny drop of it on a tooth pick and touch it to your wrist! (Despite what it will feel like, it won't cause permanent injury that way! But do NOT get it in your eyes, where it can cause instant and permanent blindness!)

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