How To Clean Your Salt Water Pool Cell

Once removed look through the cell and inspect for scale formation light colored crusty or flaky deposits on the plates.

How to clean your salt water pool cell. You use muratic acid to clean the deposits off the filters in the salt cell. Cleaning the cell chemically 1. Then you fill the cell with a mixture of 5 parts water to one part muriatic acid. For optimum turbocell operation and life you will need to inspect your cell approximately every 3 months of operation or 500 hours and clean the cell if n.

Mix the muratic acid. When using chemicals protect yourself. Submerge your cell in a mixture of 1 part hydrochloric acid and 10 parts water until the calcium build up has dissolved. First unplug the chlorine generator and turn off the circuit breaker for the pool pump.

Turn off the power to the system and deactivate the pool pump before removing the turbo cell. Cleaning the salt cell is done by soaking the cell in a mixture of muriatic acid and water. Remove the turbo cell. For stubborn build up you can use your standard garden hose.

A salt cell takes salt suspended in the pool s water and turns it into chlorine through a chemical reaction. Do not allow this liquid to sit in your cell for more than half an hour. This has got to be the best video on how to clean the build up in your salt cell i know it will be educating so please leave your comments and any questio. Cleaning your salt water cell is easy.

Next slowly unscrew the unions to relieve pressure on the lines and remove the cell for inspection and or cleaning. You only want to clean the cell when it is truly necessary as this process does eat through the coating on your cell blades. Once the salt chlorinator cell is off look through the end of it. Over time a salt cell acquires a buildup of calcium and other debris which hampers the cell s ability to function properly.

Once the liquid inside the cell stops foaming your cell is clean.