Re: A&A Quik Dek-Clor Questions
I have a chlorinator which sounds similar to yours. It's 18" deep and takes 3" in diameter trichlor pucks. It holds seven of those when filled to capacity. My assembly has a small turn valve on the bottom near the piping; it can be set in 1/8th increments from OFF to FULL.
It doesn't matter how many pucks you put in. They'll begin to dissolve fairly quickly, releasing chlorine and CYA, until the water inside the chlorinator has reached the saturation point, and this is then fed into the pool. As more water enters the chlorinator when the pump is on, more of the pucks dissolve to maintain the saturation level.
How much chlorine and CYA the pucks release depends on their weight. The ones I use weigh 8 oz each. In a 33,000 gal pool one of those would raise the FC by 1.7, raise CYA by 1, lower pH by 0.09. You can find this information by using the Pool Calculator. Put your volume in at the top then scroll down to Effects of adding chemicals and input the weight in ounces for the pucks you use. Also tell it whether you use trichlor or dichlor pucks.
While these auto-chlorinators can be useful at certain times they carry with them a number of pitfalls as Janet already mentioned. You likely had a green pool because you didn't have enough free chlorine in relation to the amount of CYA added via the pucks.
When you shock your pool I would urge you to use bleach rather than a powdered "shock" product since they may add yet more stabilizer (depending on the product). Bleach just adds chlorine and that's what we want in there to get the green out.
Answering your question about pump run time is difficult. The goal is to get one complete turnover of water in a 24 hour period. How long it takes your pump to do that I do not know. Most of us run our pumps for about 8 hours out of 24 and some people split that into two 4 hour sessions. Mine runs 8 hours during the night on a timer and for about an hour after a swim session.
What type of water testing equipment do you have?
Oval 12.5K gal AGP; Hayward 19" sand filter; Pentair Dyn 1 HP 2sp pump on timer
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