The Great Nature2 Debate

[PoolDoc]

All very interesting.

The change from the original Fountainhead patents to the current incarnation is interesting. It appears that the old product focused on what happened inside the cartridge while the new ones are merely passive "mineral-izers".

Again, it looks like Henig STILL believes that something real was happening in his unit; he has newer patents along that line. But Zodiac and Denkewicz seem to have given that up. There was some justification for the "'active oxygen" and catalyst language dealers have used, in that Henig and other Fountainhead folks seem to have believed it. (Who knows: it might even be true!) But, it doesn't apply to the current Nature2, at all.

Seems to be an example of a corporation seeing value, not in the actual product, but only in the brand name.

Ben

[CarlD]

Yet, at best, it still comes out to a very expensive "solution" to the fear some people have of chlorine, a fear I've yet to see justified. I'd be guessing at the statistics but I'd say for every person actually truly sensitive to chlorine and bromine, there's a VAST number that think they are, when it fact they are merely sensitive to a poorly maintained pool--as most of us are!

[PoolDoc]

Carl, I think a lot of the problem goes back to the fact that a lot of people have

1. Experienced skin or eye irritation in pools that were . . .
2. Chlorinated.

The whole FREE / COMBINED distinction is to them a "distinction without a difference", because the chlorinated pools they have encountered were irritating.

Ben

[CarlD]

Carl, I think a lot of the problem goes back to the fact that a lot of people have

1. Experienced skin or eye irritation in pools that were . . .
2. Chlorinated.

The whole FREE / COMBINED distinction is to them a "distinction without a difference", because the chlorinated pools they have encountered were irritating.

Ben

Ben,

Exactly!

Eat a spoiled piece of fish and it puts you off fish, which has nothing to do with fish itself.

Carl

[waterbear]

All very interesting.

The change from the original Fountainhead patents to the current incarnation is interesting. It appears that the old product focused on what happened inside the cartridge while the new ones are merely passive "mineral-izers".

Again, it looks like Henig STILL believes that something real was happening in his unit; he has newer patents along that line.

Then if this really IS the case it means that the only sanitatin takes place INSIDE the unit, whch makes it no better as a sanitizers than an ozonator or UV sanitizer. The only water that is being sanitized is inside the chamber! Once again this means that a fast acting residual sanitizer at levels that are effective needs to be present in the water.

It IS all very interesting!