Tcap
05-13-2006, 12:08 PM
Hi,
This is our first real year with the pool. It was finished in Sept. '05 so we only had a couple of weeks before we closed for the season. This is our first pool ever and I am very commited to the BBB system. I really appreciate all the help this forum has given me already!!!
Pool is a 20x40 IG liner 3' to 8' approx: 33,000 gal with a DE filter and SWG. Here are the numbers:
FC: 9 - it's been raining here forever so I added extra yesterday to compensate for anything the rain may pull in. I will let that start to come down
CC: .5
TC: 9.5
PH: 7.5
Alk: 100
Cal: 170 - I have a heater so I need calcium.
CYA: 35
Salt: 6200 PS234s \ 4000 Aqualogic this AM
Temp: 55
OK, the salt is the problem. But I think I must be doing something wrong. I have an Aqualogic \ Aquarite system. The cell says 4000 for the salt reading. When everything was installed last year, the "pool school" the installer was supposed to give us was woefully lacking to say the least. Not sure he understood the SWG. I was not here when they opened this spring so I could not ask questions - how annoying! Anyway, I didn't realize that you had to have the chlorinator set to a % to read the salt level. I had it set to 0 because I was shocking the pool with bleach. The readout kept telling me salt was low. I added salt and it still kept telling me salt was low. I added more salt. Then I figured it out. I set the cl % to 50 and it told me the salt was 5500. I drained and refilled some and it went down to 3900. It has slowly crept back up to 4000 or so on the panel. Before I drained again, I wanted to test the numbers with Ben's kit. Did that this morning and my salt number came out to be 6200. I did the test twice and it came out right around the same. Interesting enough, with all the rain we have gotten, the number on the Aqualogic readout has gone from 3900 to 4000 - 4200. I thought rain would delute the salt. I have had to drain out about 3 inches with all the rain this week. I had expected the number to go down. I did take apart the cell and everything looked great. No scalling, not deposits, nothing. The cell was only used in Sept. for 3 weeks and a couple of weeks this year since we opened. I know it's making cl because I my number is at 9 and have not added any bleach in a while. I was going to see if I could find a pool store that does a salt test - just to have a third opinion on the matter. I'm tempted to just drain off some water now, let the rain fill some up and then fill the rest later. Any thoughts? Anything I'm missing? Is the pool temp. affecting the numbers? Why such a big different between the kit's number and the Aqualogic's #?
Sorry for such a long post. Just trying to get a handle on all of this.
Thanks for all your help!
Tracy
This is our first real year with the pool. It was finished in Sept. '05 so we only had a couple of weeks before we closed for the season. This is our first pool ever and I am very commited to the BBB system. I really appreciate all the help this forum has given me already!!!
Pool is a 20x40 IG liner 3' to 8' approx: 33,000 gal with a DE filter and SWG. Here are the numbers:
FC: 9 - it's been raining here forever so I added extra yesterday to compensate for anything the rain may pull in. I will let that start to come down
CC: .5
TC: 9.5
PH: 7.5
Alk: 100
Cal: 170 - I have a heater so I need calcium.
CYA: 35
Salt: 6200 PS234s \ 4000 Aqualogic this AM
Temp: 55
OK, the salt is the problem. But I think I must be doing something wrong. I have an Aqualogic \ Aquarite system. The cell says 4000 for the salt reading. When everything was installed last year, the "pool school" the installer was supposed to give us was woefully lacking to say the least. Not sure he understood the SWG. I was not here when they opened this spring so I could not ask questions - how annoying! Anyway, I didn't realize that you had to have the chlorinator set to a % to read the salt level. I had it set to 0 because I was shocking the pool with bleach. The readout kept telling me salt was low. I added salt and it still kept telling me salt was low. I added more salt. Then I figured it out. I set the cl % to 50 and it told me the salt was 5500. I drained and refilled some and it went down to 3900. It has slowly crept back up to 4000 or so on the panel. Before I drained again, I wanted to test the numbers with Ben's kit. Did that this morning and my salt number came out to be 6200. I did the test twice and it came out right around the same. Interesting enough, with all the rain we have gotten, the number on the Aqualogic readout has gone from 3900 to 4000 - 4200. I thought rain would delute the salt. I have had to drain out about 3 inches with all the rain this week. I had expected the number to go down. I did take apart the cell and everything looked great. No scalling, not deposits, nothing. The cell was only used in Sept. for 3 weeks and a couple of weeks this year since we opened. I know it's making cl because I my number is at 9 and have not added any bleach in a while. I was going to see if I could find a pool store that does a salt test - just to have a third opinion on the matter. I'm tempted to just drain off some water now, let the rain fill some up and then fill the rest later. Any thoughts? Anything I'm missing? Is the pool temp. affecting the numbers? Why such a big different between the kit's number and the Aqualogic's #?
Sorry for such a long post. Just trying to get a handle on all of this.
Thanks for all your help!
Tracy