By utilizing the Dragonfly Super Skimmer as your primary swimming pool cleaner you will save money on both swimming pool chemicals, energy, water and possibly doctors bills.
Chemical costs
Let us start with the cost of chlorine or whatever disinfectant your swimming pool uses. The amount of free chlorine available in a given amount of water depends very largely upon the load of bio-materials. That is materials such as seed, leaves,
fats, skin particles, dead insects, etc. The first chlorine that is put in the water covers existing risks such as those just
mentioned, after that you are left with free chlorine and this is the chlorine that reduces the risk of infection, etc. The Dragonfly Super Skimmer reduces the amount of bio-materials in the water, this means that you need to put less chlorine in the swimming pool to have the required amount of free chlorine to effectively disinfect the pool leading to a reduction in chlorine costs.
Energy savings
We all know that the swimming pool filter needs to be run for a minimum amount of time in order to have the water circulate enough for effective filtration. With salt water pools this is particularly critical because the chlorine is formed during the filtration cycle and even if the water looks great the filters have to be left
running in order to get the required free chlorine readings in the water. By stopping dirt from sinking into the water in the first place and sending it directly to filtration the water stays
cleaner so the filtration time can be reduced. In the case of salt water pools the same applies, the reduction in suspended contaminant in the water frees chlorine more quickly meaning that less filtration time is required.
Water Savings
The Dragonfly is able to help save water by taking advantage of rain. When the pool over fills as the result of a rainy period the skimming action of the pools static skimmer is stopped. The only way to get it working properly is to let some of the water go until it starts to skim again. With the Dragonfly
Super Skimmer this is of course not a problem as it will float with the water level always maintaining maximum skimming action. Conversely in times of water shortage water may drop well below the operating level of the existing static skimmer.
It is possible to have a Dragonfly Super Skimmer effectively keeping the water clean and healthy until there is very little water left in the pool.