Tips To Perfection - Intec CV40 Instruction Manual

NOTE: Wait for a minimum of 30 minutes after treating pool before allowing anyone to swim.
When treating your pool, make sure that you are running the pump and recirculating the water.
6.3 Pool Filters
6.3.1 Diatomaceous Earth (DE) Filter – This system will filter suspended solids from your
water down to 10 microns. This is very good; however, the DE filter will cause the TDS (total
dissolved solids) to increase. This increase will cause your treatments to work less effectively
and those treatments will take a little longer to take effect.
6.3.2 Zeolite Filter - (also known as Zeosand or Zeobrite) will filter your pool water down to
5 microns, which is even better.
The above two filters have one major problem. They both use a lot of pool water for
backwashing. The backwashing takes the water that you have been testing and treating out of
the pool. This requires you to refill the pool with untreated water thus changing your water test
parameters. Now you have to do your testing and treatment all over again to attain the previous
levels achieved before the filter was backwashed.
6.3.3 Cartridge Filter - This will filter the pool water to 20 microns and it requires no
backwashing. You simply take the cartridge out and clean it with a sweeper nozzle. The nozzle
is available at any hardware store. You have not changed one gallon of the pool water chemistry
and you do not have to retest and retreat the water.
Intec is not recommending that you change your filter, but that you learn to work with
the one you have. If ever you have problems with your present filter, then you might consider
changing to the cartridge filter.
A. Always err on the side of under treating your pool water rather than over treating your
pool water.
B. On a new pool or one under construction, be sure to tell the pool builder not to put any
chemicals in the water. Tell him you will start taking care of it from the very beginning.
Sometimes they will put a Metal-Out product in the water. This product will take the
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