The symptoms you will likely have include:
- Your pool keeps going green
- Your salt chlorinator keeps showing a LOW SALT warning even though your salt level has been checked and is fine. This is because the low salt message is a warning of low conductivity caused by low salt and also the cell plate coating wearing down
- The plates may start to bend and distort as the precious metal coating wears off
- The plates may start to erode, so some plates will become shorter than others (usually the middle one does this first)
- Your chlorine levels are low and
These photos show eroded middle plates and calcium build up on the cells
Cells are replaceable and the coating wears off over a matter of years so they do need replacing when they are no longer making enough chlorine for the pool.
Here is our link to popular cells