Floatrons

TRNCVaughan


Joined: 27/04/2008
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Message Posted:
28/08/2008 11:36

We now have Floatrons in stock in our Kyrenia office.

These units are manufactured in the USA and are tried and tested.

They have been in use in TRNC for at least 5 years, to my knowledge, and many people rate them very highly.



Cost: 299 pounds sterling



http://www.floatron.com/





Vaughan

Octopus Pools

Pipie


Joined: 05/01/2008
Posts: 5499

Message Posted:
28/08/2008 11:38

what is a floatron ?

johnboy


Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 170

Message Posted:
28/08/2008 12:15

Sorry to Hi-jack your post, but i have a second hand floatron - only a few months use - £175.00



e mail - johnboy-w@hotmail.co.uk

orangekazzie



Joined: 31/07/2007
Posts: 1091

Message Posted:
28/08/2008 12:17

why are you getting rid of it johnboy?

TRNCVaughan


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Posts: 4578

Message Posted:
28/08/2008 12:23

PIPIE



http://www.floatron.com/

jacktheladett


Joined: 01/07/2008
Posts: 528

Message Posted:
28/08/2008 14:37

Have you got the spares as well Vaughan?

punk rocker


Joined: 24/07/2008
Posts: 152

Message Posted:
28/08/2008 14:48

unfortunately they dont clean pools Vaughan only ionise them, could you please explain/tell the whole story, pools must still be cleaned out and hoovered they also require to be treated dependant on how often they are used, the floatron also requires to be cleaned monthly or a build up of limescale prevents them from operating properly

TRNCVaughan


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Posts: 4578

Message Posted:
28/08/2008 15:42

Punk Rocker



Chlorine doesn't clean or hoover a pool either.



I think you and PIPIE need to visit

http://www.floatron.com/

Thats why I put the link there for you.



Jacktheladdette



What spares do you need?

jacktheladett


Joined: 01/07/2008
Posts: 528

Message Posted:
28/08/2008 18:40

The pole, Vaughan, they last about 9 months, we will need one by the end of the year I'm sure.

Pipie


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Message Posted:
28/08/2008 19:34

Thanks for the link Vaughan , you learn something everyday eh punk rocker .

TRNCVaughan


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Posts: 4578

Message Posted:
29/08/2008 08:54

Hi jacktheladette,



Spare "poles" (electrodes) are 40 pounds each. These should be changed when they waste away to the thickness of a pencil.

punk rocker


Joined: 24/07/2008
Posts: 152

Message Posted:
29/08/2008 09:30

'why pipie i thougt YOU knew it all' eh

CJtill


Joined: 02/05/2008
Posts: 836

Message Posted:
29/08/2008 14:36

Have had a floatron for a couple of years now and as the limescale masks the cells the efficiency drops remarkably. Have tried removing the limescale but no joy, so the floatron is no longer in the pool.

If anyone has any ideas on cleaning they would be appreciated.

TRNCVaughan


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Posts: 4578

Message Posted:
29/08/2008 16:00

Bring it in and I'll take a look at it for you.

jacktheladett


Joined: 01/07/2008
Posts: 528

Message Posted:
29/08/2008 18:21

CJtill



are you cleaning it once a week? We have had ours for about 3 years and don't have any problems; what I do is take it out the pool one day, leave it upside down in the sun, so that it all dries out and then clean it. A quick squirt of lime-scale remover helps to loose things, if needs be, but generally everything comes up pretty well.

Pipie


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Posts: 5499

Message Posted:
30/08/2008 00:47

Punk rocker

nice , that you thought that of me ., but not surprising .

frontalman



Joined: 28/02/2008
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Message Posted:
30/08/2008 14:22

You can leave it soaking in a jar of vinegar (ex-gherkins?) overnight and this will shift limescale. Works for coil and plastic mesh cylinder.

CJtill


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Posts: 836

Message Posted:
30/08/2008 15:02

Vaughan

Will bring in our floatron next week.

Where are you located

Michael

TRNCVaughan


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Message Posted:
01/09/2008 14:41

We are just a few doors down the side road next to HSBC as you come in from the roundabout.

TRNCVaughan


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Message Posted:
03/09/2008 14:37

Some people have asked me how copper and silver in an Aligator system or a Floatron cleans pool water. Below is some research supporting the effectiveness of these systems:

 "Legionella pneumophila, which causes the lethal Legionaire's Disease and which can be present in public waters, was killed approximately 100 times faster when 0.20ppm of copper and 0.02ppm of silver were added to 0.20ppm of chlorine as compared to the use of chlorine itself. Legionella is very resistant to even higher levels of chlorine." (Professor Charles P. Gerba, Department of Microbiology, University of Arizona)

 "0.10ppm of chlorine is very effective in treating a pool when there are copper and silver ions present in the pool." ( University of Arizona)

 "Thanks to eye-opening research, silver is emerging as a wonder of modern medicine. An antibiotic kills perhaps a half dozen different disease organisms but silver kills some 650. Moreover, silver is virtually non-toxic. ("Our Mightiest Germ Fighter"; Science Digest, March 1978)

 "Scores of independent tests have shown that silver promptly kills bacteria in water and maintains water purity over long periods of time." ("Tests Show Silver Best Water Purifier"; The Silver Institute Letter, December 1976)

 Both NASA and the Soviet space program use copper-silver systems to purify and recycle drinking water on their space missions. ("Winged-Ferry to Shuttle Between Earth and Space"; The Silver Institute Letter March 1976)

 "The most dramatic purification tests occurred in 1976 in a 20,000 gallon swimming pool in Nebraska. There was no disinfectant of any kind in the water. Fifty gallons of municipal sewage waste water was put into the pool. That produced a dangerous concentration of 7,000 E.Coli cells per 100 millilitre [half a cup] of water. Contents of the pool were then pumped through a tank containing silver for disinfection. Within three hours the pool was entirely free of E.Coli and the water contained only 3.2 parts of silver per billion parts of water (0.0032ppm). ("Silver Guards Good Health:'; The Silver Institute Letter, May 1975)

 ""Silver-copper systems are capable of inactivating enteric viruses such as the polio virus in the presence or absence of free chlorine, which should be useful in the control of these agents in swimming pools." (Professor Charles P. Gerba, Department of Microbiology, University of Arizona)