Cyanurics ~

[waterbear]

Kent Williams paper keeps getting referenced on one forum or another by someone who thinks they have just found the "holy grail".
It has been discussed ad nauseum again and again (such as in this thread from 2006 from the Pool Forum archives that Ben answered) and the end result is that the info on here and TFP is referenced and posted and the as is the chemistry of chlorinated isocyanurates and the realities of ORP controllers with links to papers .

Actually I find the very last paragraph of his paper the most telling in its vagueness (emphasis and comments mine):
"This writer has, by the way, used cyanuric acid successfully
and with benefit in his own pool for years." (Yet he never states if his own pool uses ORP controllers or what the CYA level is--interesting ,no?)
"Trash or treasure, curse or blessing, yin or yang, it’s all in the context of
consequence! " (So does this mean it's good or bad or is he still sitting on the fence on the subject. As someone in Oz once said "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.")
"We just hope, if you’re using CYA, it is appropriate
for you and it works for you. Frankly, for many operators,
it’s not and it doesn’t." (Because of ORP controllers or orverstabilization?)

IMHO, this thread should just be locked. I don't think that there is anything more to add after what Ben had to say.