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SmartPool ChlorEase Above Ground Saltwater Chlorinator | 
 enlarge | Brand: SmartPool
Category: Toy
List Price: $199.99
Buy New: $169.99
You Save: $30.00 (15%)
New (3) from $169.99
Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 115684
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 6
Dimensions (in): 22 x 6 x 6
UPC: 628208308010
EAN: 0628208308010
ASIN: B000RQ0RAU
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Produces chlorine right in the pool - automatically and continuously | | • | Can be used with chemicals used in chlorine-maintained pools | | • | Cord has a windable spool for easy cleaning and winterization | | • | Treats above ground pools up to 18,000 gallons | | • | Easily installs in new and existing pools |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
The SmartPool ChlorEase Saltwater Chlorinator is an automated salt chlorine generator for above ground pools. With an initial dose of salt to the pool water, ChlorEase produces chlorine right in the swimming pool, automatically and continuously. The softening effect of the salt leaves hair and skin silky to the touch. You get clean, healthy water that is comfortable for swimmers.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Works, but not made well! They don't honor their warranty either! August 7, 2008
I bought this device last summer. Being skeptical, I really read into it and reluctantly decided to give it a shot. I have followed the instructions to the "T" and always kept my water chemistry in the recommended range per the manufacturers instructions. I also followed the recommended cleaning and maintenance per their instructions. It worked great last summer, BUT not this summer.
I never plugged the unit up until I had all of the water chemistry to their standards, which took a while this year. When I plugged the unit in, it began to bubble, as it should, so I thought everything was okay. It never created enough chlorine this year, even though I had it running 24 hours a day. It finally stopped working all together about half-way through the summer. Upon my inspection of the device, I found the transformer that powers the device had melted its housing!
I called the manufacturer and they told me to send it in so that they could look at it and see what was wrong with it. Two weeks after returning it to them (my cost) I got notice from them that the device was supposedly caked up with a bunch of calcium. They told me that because it broke due to my failure to maintain it correctly that I would have to pay $100 to get it replaced by them! I told them that it wasn't that way when I put it in the box because you could see the platinum plates clearly (I would have cleaned it first if it would have been caked up, but it wasn't). They told me that I was wrong, that it was caked up inside, but you can easily see right through the device and I KNOW it wasn't like that! I told them that I had always maintained it like they said to and that I had just cleaned it about two weeks before I figured out that it had stopped working. She then changed her story to say that the ONLY reason that their transformers melt like that is because they weren't maintained correctly. She would not even admit that there was the possibility that the transformer could have just messed up on its own.
I tried to get them to replace it under their warranty, but they refused to stating that it was all my fault! I finally just told them to send it back to me the way it was so that I could try to get it replaced by the credit card company that I bought it with and they said that they would gladly send it back to me, but that I had to pay $15 to have them ship it back to me! So not only did they call me a liar about maintaining it and not stand behind their warranty, but they expect me to pay to ship the broken unit twice!
This device did do what it was supposed to, and I was actually a big proponent of it. I even recommended it to several people, but I would not recommend this item at all now knowing what type of people are running the company.
BUYER BEWARE! BUYER BEWARE! BUYER BEWARE! BUYER BEWARE! BUYER BEWARE!
 Above ground pool maintenance made easy January 11, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
At the beginning of this year, I did my annual ritual with my pool. Mainly that consists of shocking the heck out of the pool until the green finally goes away. This year was especially bad with algae blooms and my family missed out on a lot of swimming time because of it. By July I had decided that I'd had enough of trying to keep the pool levels in check manually. I bought this chlorinator, but given that it was so much cheaper than any other automatic chlorinators, I was skeptical.
I bought 12 bags of salt from my local hardware outlet, dumped them in and ran around the pool for about 20 minutes until it was all absorbed. Being skeptical about the chlorinator, I just ran an extension cord to the unit and plugged it in. Instantly you can see white material coming off the unit. I let it go like this for several weeks and had no problems.
Eventually though, my chlorine levels started to lessen. I thought, "Oh well, lesson learned". I remembered something about cleaning maintenance in the manual so I pulled the unit apart. I was quite surprised to find a solid block of white buildup on the mesh inside. After I cleaned it, the unit started working flawlessly again. Later that day, I figured out what I was doing wrong. My pump was on a timer, running only 6 to 8 hours a day. The unit was always plugged in. When there isn't water running across the unit, the by product of the chlorinating process will buildup on the unit. Now that I have installed a GFI outlet run off the same timer, the unit has been running great.
This is the first time since I've owned my pool that, in January, the water is crystal clear!
I love this thing! I only wish they made something similar for hot tubs.
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