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material disks for intensified cleaning and better grip, ensuring perfect adhesion to the pool floor and to enable it to climb the side walls. Both incorporate an exclusive cassette system, enabling the diaphragm to be cleaned or changed with ease, ensuring that the units suck up all types of debris with amazing efficiency. A leaf trap (optional on the ‘Manta II’) collects leaves before they reach the pump basket. At the other end of the scale are the ‘Barracuda Indigo’ and ‘Barracuda Lazernaut’ units. Taking many features from the ‘Lazernaut’, its commercial big brother, the ‘Indigo’ has two cleaning cycles, a rapid ‘Turbo’ (one and a half hours) and an intensive ‘Perfect’ (three hours) programme, easily selected on a ‘plug-and-play’ basis with no complicated programming. Its high filtration capacity (20 microns) enables it to suck up all types of debris, including the finest particles. Pollet Pools have a loyal customer following for the popular Kreepy Krauly range of cleaners. The range has given them an excellent reputation in the suction side cleaners market. The company also has two pressure model options with the Lend I and Legend II where the advantage is in liner fibreglass or even concrete pools. Procopi Uk’s Star Vac II arrived on the market as a new robotic cleaner designed for pools up to 80m3. It’s a technologically advanced cleaner which was developed in co-operation with the world’s leading pool robotic cleaner manufacturer. The reliability is respected in the trade as fantastic.
Set up time from box to swimming pool is 15 minutes and it is equipped with the latest innovations.
If for instance the cleaner mounts a beach or a dry slope, it stops and reverses back into the water; if the cleaner runs dry, is stops automatically after 5 seconds; If it doesn’t meet a wall within 90 seconds, it changes direction automatically. The product is guaranteed for two years or for 300 cycles has an independent drive and motors and is “intelligent” in the sense it stops automatically if the cleaner runs dry and can deal with difficult slopes and angles. So pool owners can make the choice from electronic cleaners driven by motors inside the unit; automatic suction-side cleaners which rely on suction to make them move and pure suction cleaners which work off water pressure coming from a pump.
ELECTRONIC CLEANERS
Robotic pool cleaners are one of the best when it comes to small debris and sand or silt situations. The electricity powering the cleaner comes from a transformer that you plug into an outdoor outlet. It converts the outlet electricity to a low voltage which is then connected to the cleaner via a long cord. It vacuums debris into its own filter by a separate pump inside the unit. It also
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usually has some sort of on board computer chip that helps to “learn” the shape of the pool. Some have a remote control that allows you to manoeuvre the cleaner around your pool to spot clean anything it may have missed. It is one of the only types of pool cleaners that not only scrubs the walls, but also the tile line. They also serve as a great supplemental way to circulate the water in your pool because of the powerful pump inside that vacuums the debris. While they are among the most expensive type of pool cleaner on the market, they can make a great investment in the right situation. They are expensive. Hopefully it never
breaks because if there is ever an issue with the cleaner, chances are you’ll have to mail it off to the factory or an authorised service station for it to be fixed.
AUTOMATIC SUCTION-SIDE CLEANERS Some suction side cleaners have the ability to “scrub” your pool walls. By agitating itself as it moves around the pool, it also scrubs the walls. These rely on suction to make them move and vacuum the stuff off the pool floor. There are several advantages to this. First they act like a moving main drain. When the cleaner is underwater, sucking stuff into it, it is also sucking water through your filtration system, causing you to turn more water over in a shorter amount of time. This can possibly cut down on the number of times you need to brush your pool. And since it sucks stuff right into your filter, it can remove much finer particles than a pool cleaner with a bag. And since there is no need to install any additional plumbing or pumps, a suction-side pool cleaner is usually a lot cheaper to install. If you are in an area where large debris rarely gets into your pool, then a suction-side cleaner may be your best bet. They suck debris to the filter and pump basket. This can be a nightmare if you live where there are a lot of trees. The only thing you can do about this is to buy a leaf trap that catches the big stuff before it ever even gets to your pump basket. Another thing that can greatly affect your suction-side pool cleaner is your filter. Without a clean filter, your pool cleaner can suffer dramatically, since the cleaner relies on the suction from your main pump to drive it around the pool and vacuum stuff up.
PURE SUCTION CLEANERS
The most beneficial thing about a pressure-side pool cleaner is that it doesn’t suck stuff into your pool filter or pump basket (allowing you more time in between cleanings). If your pool is around
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trees, or if you get a lot of debris in your swimming pool, then a pressure-side pool cleaner is the best way to go. This type works off water pressure coming from a pump. The pump can be your main circulation pump, or it can be from a dedicated pump. A pressure-side pool cleaner runs by water pressure from the pump that drives the cleaner around the pool and is also what forces the debris into the bag that holds the debris. spn
i FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
F CERTIKIN ( 01993 778855 :
www.certikin.co.uk F FAIRLOCKS ( 01865 988346 :
www.fairlocks.co.uk F GOLDEN COAST ( 01271 378100 :
www.goldenc.com F KALTECH ( 01684 830159 :
www.kal-tech.co.uk F POLLET POOL GROUP ( 0870 458 2354 :
www.ppgeurope.com F PROCOPI UK ( 01622 832800 :
www.procopi.co.uk F SCP ( 01293 546126 :
www.scppool.com F SP LEISURE ( 01293 297000 :
www.spleisure.com
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