Intex vs circupool or other mainstream swg
I have an above ground pool that I converted to salt. I had an Intex swg for the last two years. The cell died on my the end of last year. So I got a solid two seasons out of it. A replacement cell or a replacement unit is about 200$.
I could bite the bullet and get something from one of the more mainline pool manufacturers hayward, pentair, circupool, etc but I'm struggling to justify the much higher buy in price.
I can get a circupool edge 25 which would be a significant jump in production capacity over the Intex. My pool is 13.5k gal so I'm pushing the Intex pretty hard but it has kept up the last two years. The circupool is 1000$ though.
The benefit I see is that they have a 7 year warranty and will replace the cell at a prorated rate over those 7 years. The cell itself is 500$ currently. Where Intex warranty is much shorter only a year on the cell itself.
If I can average 2 years a piece on the Intex units it would still take me 10 years to cover the circupool cost and if the circupool cell dies before the 10 years break even is even further out. I can't make the math make sense to not just buy throw away Intex units until something else shows up in the market.
Is there anything I'm missing here that would really push a need to buy a more expensive unit?