Neoterics Blaster 2000 Automatic Pool and Spa Cartridge Filter Cleaner

I saw the good and bad reviews and decided to give it a try. I got the Blaster 2000, and I have decent water pressure (hose fills 5 gallon bucket in exactly 45 seconds, I've seen some folks say that's not very good but it seems pretty good to me!). It does use kind-of a lot of water, and you have to turn the filter around halfway through (I did 3 minutes each side), the pressure may not be as strong as a handheld sprayer, and it may not clean the filter quite as well as a handheld sprayer, but it still does the job and the filters came out clean enough. If it doesn't clean the filter well enough after a few minutes you can leave it on a little longer and it'll get cleaner the longer you leave it on. It cleans the filter from below so the dirt comes out more easily. As far as the extra water it uses, well you can run it on your lawn or under a tree and it'll saturate the ground for ya! Always helpful in hot sunny dry Texas. The biggest advantage is the convenience - it's enormously helpful to not have to spend as much time cleaning the filters manually each time, and it allows you to multi-task! For that reason alone it's worth it to me. The device seems sturdy enough, is very lightweight, and seems made out of good material. It didn't fall apart when I picked it up, and has held together after a few uses. There may be a few weak links in the unit but so far has worked fine for my 4 filters. As with anything I guess just don't bang it around too often, don't kick it or play baseball with it - just be gentle and I think it should hold up.

Seemed like a really cool, useful product. However, it stopped spinning after 2 uses. This is not user error. One of the rods that turn the filter simply stopped turning even if no filter is on it. Something broke internally. Unfortunately it's all just sealed plastic so there's no way to open it and see if there's an easy fix. I'm trying to contact the company now to see if I can get a refund or I'd even try a replacement. We'll see how that goes.

It cleans pretty good, especially if you clean your filters more frequently. Now the bad. If you have trees and other plants around your pool and constantly haven't to clean up from the debris that falls from each, i.e., small seeds leaves, pollen, etc., the water jets are not strong enough to dig them out between the pleats, and only a garden hose will do that, well, come close to doing it any way. And now the good again. There are times when I don't have so much incoming debris. I can extend the cleaning periods in between. I do have Arizona dust and that darkens the pleats, but the jets will clean that out. It' was worth it just for that. It sure beats standing all bent over with the garden hose.

Cleaning my PA 120 filters by hand was a very unpleasant wet job. I tried all the spray nozzles, filters weren't cleaned well, too much of the spray hit me. This is a brilliant invention. I do have adequate pressure which helps. I set this up over a dry spot in the lawn, turn it on for 10 minutes. It won't clean the full length so I move it to another dry spot and turn the cartridge so the rest gets sprayed and let it go for another 10 minutes. The filter gets really clean.

I used this for the first time. Works very well. Put it on for 5 minutes. flipped and finished. Lots of junk came out. water started running clear. Used the hose after and I would say it got 80-90% of the dirt out. Could easily have just put it back and been fine. When I used the hose alone I had to go over the cartridge several times. After using the Blaster, one quick rinse with the hose was enough. I may cover a couple of the holes to see if I can get the jets to output more pressure. I have excellent water pressure. No issues at all with spinning.Definitely worth the money.Durability yet to be seen. seems reasonably well constructed.

This thin saved me a bunch of time. Pulled one cartridge and got it started by the time I got back with two more it was time to flip. I'd say each filter took maybe 6 minutes. I was busy showing it off to my neighbor who also has a pool. Just ran till the water coming off of it was clear. This was by far the fastest and easiest cleaning I've done.

This thing fell apart just a week after the end of the return period. You can actually feel the glue at the ends of the two blue aluminum pieces. They clearly did not use anything either water resistant or heat resistant. Mind you I kept this thing stored in the shade. It was never exposed to the sun for more than 15 minutes every week or so.Does it work? Kind of. The other reviewers suggestion to make sure to use it at least once per week seems to have helped. I would recommend a deep cleaning once before starting to use this thing so you can start with the cleanest possible filter because as other reviewers had mentioned this thing will not get too deep into the pleats.However the quality control here is extremely lacking. We're going to probably use proper waterproof epoxy to fix it but that's an added cost you should have been done in the first place.

Cheap. Part where the garden hose screws on broke in half on the 3rd time I used the device. I sent a photo to the seller on june 15th and still haven't received a reply. From the time i recieved this cleaning device, to the 3rd of use was only 7 months. I dont reccomend this. Just a note. It worked really good the first 2times of usage. Great concept. Terrible plastic that will note last more than 7 months. See attached photo. You will see how the screw on part of the unit broke in half. Cheap plastic. I paid over $120.00 to successfully clean 8 filters. It broke on the 9th cleaning of one filter. I resorted to my pressure washer and now use this filter cleaning device to hold the filters in place and rotate them by hand