Austria
Austrian pool equipment with the paperwork attached
Steinbach sits on both sides of the line this site draws between hardware and chemistry. The same catalogue holds a cartridge unit that hangs on the wall, a sand system running filter balls, an inverter heat pump, and the chlorine tablets and oxygen granules that go into the water those machines move.
On the hardware pages the figures are specific: flow in litres per hour, pump model codes, cover dimensions given as a rectangle rather than a nominal size. On the chemistry pages the registration number appears where German law requires it. A registration is a filing, not a verdict on how well a product works, and the reviews here treat it as exactly that.
What the range does not publish uniformly is how its own parts fit together — a hose diameter stated on one page is not always repeated on the fitting page that needs it. Where two Steinbach listings disagree, the review reports both figures rather than picking the more convenient one.
3 900 l/h circulation, 4 500 l/h pump, 200 W, not self-priming
A filter-ball system publishing two flow figures and two limits nobody else states: a maximum water temperature of 35 °C, a salt tolerance of 5 g/l — and that the pump is not self-priming.
Best for: A salt pool up to 19 000 litres where the system can sit below the water line
