Trichlor Feeder

[Redtickbeer]

So from everything I have read on the forums, and my own experience over the last 3 weeks, I am thinking I should just discontinue using this contraption and stick with 10% sanitizer or just plain bleach. That way I don't have to worry about rising CYA levels and I actually know what was added to the pool.

Is there some reason that I should want to keep using the trichlor feeder that I am missing? If so I will spend some time figuring out how to set the erosion rate properly. It just seems like so much more work than added some liquid now and then.

Regards,

Red

[AnnaK]

Hi Red,

I have an inline trichlor feeder that I use at the beginning of the season and when we go on vacation. It holds 7 pucks. At startup in May I run it at 1/2 strength to get CYA into the water. It takes a long time to raise CYA from 0 to 50 ppm this way and I always have to add granular CYA to get to the level I like. Then I turn the feeder off and use 10% LC. When we go on vacation I run the feeder again at 1/4. By then, I'm no longer concerned about the CYA getting too high because in my pool it usually drops to zero over winter.

I have an awful lot of splashout and replace probably 1/3 of the volume each year. From my experience over the past 7 years I could probably go with trichlor all season. I choose not to because it's much less expensive to get liquid chlorine and it's much easier to calculate dosage for the level I like.

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