Cal Spas Pneumatic Series Owner's Manual page 57

Sanitizers:
(Bromine and Chlorine)
How Sanitizers Work:
Sanitizers such and Bromine and Chlorine, basically kill bacteria and other organic waste by breaking them down to unharmful levels,
thus eliminating them from the water.
You will need to know how each sanitizer performs this task to maximize their efficiency.
Bromine:
Bromine is generally in tablet form, and requires a small plastic floater to dissolve slowly into the spa water.
With a proper understanding of how it works, it is quite an effective sanitizer, with a bonus of low chemical orders.
Unlike chlorine, bromine can breakdown bacteria and other contaminates to a safe level, then move on to other contaminates with a low
burnout rate.
The problem that most spa owners have with bromine is that they don't follow a chemical plan, allowing the bromine tablets to complete-
ly dissolve out of the floater. This causes bromine level to go up and down like a Yo Yo.
Not what you want from a sanitizer.
As mentioned before, bromine dissolves slowly into the water. The proper way to manage a bromine system is the following:
Sanitizers:
(Bromine and Chlorine)
Bromine Management: (500 Gallon Spas at 100˚ F)
Start-up:
1. Add 2 oz. of Go Bro into the spa with all of the jets on high speed. This is your base bromine level as the tablets will take awhile to
dissolve enough to manage 500 gallons of water.
2. Add 2 oz. of Oxidizer Shock into the spa with all of the jets on high speed and the spa cover at least half off for 30 min. This will
remove any organic materials that may have been left in the plumbing lines after its last draining.
3. Start by placing 3 to 4 bromine tablets into 95% closed plastic floater and place into the spa. (Do not place bromine tablets into the
filter basket.)
Weekly:
1. Test Bromine level with test strips. Note: Bromine Test
levels will vary if spa is equipped with Quest 2000
Ozonator.
Test Levels With Quest 2000 Ozonator:
Test Levels Without Quest 2000 Ozonator:
2. Add one or two bromine tablets to the floater weekly.
You want to replenish the same amount of bromine tablets equal to the tablet dissolve rate. (Dissolve rate will be faster at higher water
temperatures and slower at lower temperatures.) NEVER LET BROMINE TABLETS RUN COMPLETELY OUT OF THE FLOATER.
3. Add 2 oz. of Oxidizer Shock weekly into the spa with all of the jets on high speed and the spa cover at least half off for 30 minutes.
This will remove organic material from the spa water, freeing-up your sanitizer to attack more bacteria, and other waste. This improves
your sanitizers performance level, reduces spa odor, and refreshes your spa water.
1 to 3 Parts Per Million (ppm)
3 to 5 Parts Per Million (ppm)
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