How Does a Swimming Pool Ionizer Work?
A swimming pool ionizer sanitizes your water by using copper and silver ions in the place of chemicals to kill bacteria, algae and viruses. The water in a swimming pool naturally contains negatively charged particles that cannot be filtered because they are too tiny. A pool ionizer uses a very low voltage current to discharge silver and copper ions into the pool. These ions have a negative charge, so they bond to and kill bacteria, viruses and algae. They do so by penetrating the cell walls and disrupting the enzyme balance of the cell. Not only do they kill these things, but by bonding to them, they also make them big enough to filter with the pool’s filtering system. This low voltage “shock” sometimes turns the water a whitish color. This is just a sign that the ionizer is working, that the bacteria, viruses and algae has been killed, and that the particles are now big enough to be filtered. In fact, once the water has been filtered, it will be sparkling clean. It will also have been
