I've been looking at other larger capacity MIOX generators, like they use for pools instead of the powdered bleaching process many of us are familiar with. Apparently, the electrolytic process produces both sodium hypochlorite and sodium hydroxide. This has a double whammy on the wee beastees, which is where the MIOX abbreviation apparently comes from. The form the hypochlorite is in they claim is more efficient due to it being generated and applied on-site, instead of sitting around. Used this way, it also seems less likely to react with various suspended organics, thus reducing the amount of Chloramination, which seems to be where the chlorine smell in pool water comes from, even though it appears that the hypochlorite isn't working. If the Chloride is bound up in Chloramines, it can't do it's disinfection job so well, and requires a strong shocking process to get it to release again. The Miox process recycles the solution back into a salt brine. This is so much better than buying those big buckets of chemicals at Costco every month.

So the MSR Miox and the Katadyn MP-1 Tabs must be a combination hydroxide and hypochlorite that is synergistic in disnfecting raw water. Now if they could add a suitable flocculant to the mix, then they would be almost identical to many municipal water treatement systems, scale being the biggest difference.

I would like to see if those two lithiums could be replaced or augmented with a hand crank generator. Wouldn't that be cool! I guess even sea water can be used as the electrolyitc solution in lieu of adding salt and raw fresh water.