Mineral Springs by Biogaurd?

[moreyes]

Any one use one of these?

Any comments?

Thanks

[waterbear]

The actual unit is made by Goldline controls and is basically a rebranded AquaRite. As far as the chemicals they push with it....totally unnecessary and expensive. All you need is salt, stabilizer, and normal water balancing!

[Guido]

I have the Mineral Springs and I'm happy with it. So far I only added salt in with the start up and that was it. Don't get “Beginner or Renewal” Beginner is more or less softener salt and renewal you don’t need at all. Just make sure you balance the water correctly and check your salt level from time to time. I use Ben’s salt kit and have no problems at all. You need to find a good setting for the auto generation which varies a bit trough the year. I ran mine on 10 to 15 in the spring and now I’m a bit higher at around 20 to 30 as the sun and all the swimming is using my Chlorine quit a bit. It also depends on the pool of cores
Oh one thing, don’t trust the salt (Mineral) readings on the unit mine shows 4000 but when I tested it I end up at around 3100. I called Bioguard and got told that this happens with new units from time to time and should go down after a month. 4 Month later and I’m still waiting for the unit to catch up.

Guido

[pcgeek]

You sure it doesn't need calibration? From what I've been reading, most of the units need to be calibrated first before they'll produce reliable results.

[waterbear]

The Goldline units (including Mineral Springs) are not able to be calibrated....they do not actually test salinity, they test condutivity and covert it into a salinity reading. The reading will change with temerature even though the salt concentration is the same.