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"AI Overview" blithely tells me HOCL can be easily made from the electrolysis of salt water.

Looking even a little deeper (Wikipedia) confirms that chlorine chemistry, especially when combined with electrolysis, is very complex, and it's hard to know if you're making the right thing. FWIW every sensible electrolysis-based DIY project has dire warnings about electrolysing solutions of common salt.

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> it's hard to know if you're making the right thing

In this case, it's not complicated

Please don't tell me you're recommending that people smell their DIY chlorine chemistry to determine what they've made?

There is no problem at 200 ppm. Skill issue

You're saying that as long as it proceeds as expected, then all will be ok. In the worst case (eg, at the 2,000ppm you indicate as an upper range, or after some mis-step in the process), what ppm chlorine gas would be created, and what would happen if you got a noseful of that at close quarters?

This is just terrible advice.

Looks like HOCL generators are household appliances now.

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