Dennis,
Why would you leave me a comment like that on my wall? You know you are preaching to the choir here on filtration anyway. I've always been a believer of slow deep bed filtraton, and know first hand that nobody is the US is supplying a good Din Standard filter, much less know of anyone that knows how to build one anymore. I didn't forget that you're the only supplier that I now know of on the North American continent, (other than maybe Astral direct, which I believe are inferior to the Wapotec), that can supply such filters. Now the last time I had a need for such filters, I could have gotten them from Howard at Dryden Aqua, but $/pound cost conversion and overseas freight put them out of the customers price range at the time, so he opted for Re-gens. When the need arises, and when I can talk someone into them, you will be the first I contact on such filters. I just don't have the need right now. Many projects are opting for Regenerative filters, and resulting smaller footprints and water savings...and agree that basically this can be potentially construed by some to be a wrong short-cited approach... but it is what it is. I'm just a small 1-person company, and not a builder, so what I can do to change the industry is, (what you could say), as being somewhat limited.
Never used a phosphate remover on a pool yet, so can't really comment on it one way, other than Howard likes it for biofilm control on some of his Intergrated Systems. If the comment stemmed from the discussions on Richard's phosphate discussion that you participated in, then I have to say that that discussion has been more or less hyjacked to a metal discussion by Richard himself, and I was discussing chitosan vs the CuLator technology for metal removal. I wasn't discussing phosphates. I'm copying this comment to you, and posting it on the phoshate discussion, because I think others should know that you can supply these filters when the need arises.
Comments
Why would you leave me a comment like that on my wall? You know you are preaching to the choir here on filtration anyway. I've always been a believer of slow deep bed filtraton, and know first hand that nobody is the US is supplying a good Din Standard filter, much less know of anyone that knows how to build one anymore. I didn't forget that you're the only supplier that I now know of on the North American continent, (other than maybe Astral direct, which I believe are inferior to the Wapotec), that can supply such filters. Now the last time I had a need for such filters, I could have gotten them from Howard at Dryden Aqua, but $/pound cost conversion and overseas freight put them out of the customers price range at the time, so he opted for Re-gens. When the need arises, and when I can talk someone into them, you will be the first I contact on such filters. I just don't have the need right now. Many projects are opting for Regenerative filters, and resulting smaller footprints and water savings...and agree that basically this can be potentially construed by some to be a wrong short-cited approach... but it is what it is. I'm just a small 1-person company, and not a builder, so what I can do to change the industry is, (what you could say), as being somewhat limited.
Never used a phosphate remover on a pool yet, so can't really comment on it one way, other than Howard likes it for biofilm control on some of his Intergrated Systems. If the comment stemmed from the discussions on Richard's phosphate discussion that you participated in, then I have to say that that discussion has been more or less hyjacked to a metal discussion by Richard himself, and I was discussing chitosan vs the CuLator technology for metal removal. I wasn't discussing phosphates. I'm copying this comment to you, and posting it on the phoshate discussion, because I think others should know that you can supply these filters when the need arises.