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Waterbear,

- Thanks for the link to 'this post' detailing the chemistry behind TA and PH relationship. All I can say is "huunnhh?" OMG it's been w-a-y too long since I swirled acids and bases to make pretty colors...(and that should explain my chemistry depth...). I guess If I took the time I might get it...but I'll just go with the "yeah, what he said" route.
It' does have me thinking though...can't I just throw a big azz blender in there, outgass all the co2 and let the chips fall where they may? Wouldn't PH & TA & atmospheric co2 come to a final balance and be happy? ... assuming those final levels aren't too nasty? Do us pool people have to keep tweaking PH & TA because they just want to end up being at nasty levels?

- Ok. Forget about the Watergram, for me. But it is fun to spin around 'n stuff .

- I just read Ben's sticky on Alkalinity adjustment. V-E-R-Y cool...and I kinda understand it! I'll be keeping that baby in my bookmarks folder...along with all the other great posts here.

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Ben,

Thanks for the background on what prompted your 'high PH' page. I'm helpless looking at those graphs, but thanks for the fill in. I read the Chem-Geek page. Poor guy, sounds like he's got a huge bruise on his forehead by now... 3 cheers for him though!

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BigDave,

Thanks for the link to Ben's Muriatic Acid handling for Dummies. I must say...I did *exactly* the same things as he had written....<sigh>....ok...ok...so maybe I didn't do 'everything'...'exactly' the same way.. ..But I *did* have my pump running at least!

I'll be sure to smarten up...if I ever have to touch that bottle again.

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For what it's worth:

I ran a full battery of tests tonight, around 10pm. The pool was uncovered all day with the pump running 24/7 (since it's so damn cheep to do so!!! <giggle><giggle> )

Testkit is a Taylor K-2006

Pool water:
TC = 5
CC = 0 (has always been 0, but bio-load has been pretty minimum since day1)
PH = 7.6 (muriatic acid dosing seems to have worked as required)
TA = 110 (this has been the same-ish since day1)
Hardness (not sure what the short form is...CA?) = 100 (this has also been the same-ish since day1)
CYA = not testing yet...still dissolving. My target is 40-ish.

Tap water: (I let the cold only tap run for 10 minutes to pull a good sample from the main line.)
TC = 2ppm
CC = 0
PH = 7.8
TA = 100
Hardness = 100
CYA = not tested, not expecting any...should I be? (hate to waste reagent on that one...stoopid tiny reagent bottles )



After all this great discussion...I'm not going to dink around with TA & PH...unless I have to. I'll let it ride for the rest of this season and see just how much of a fight it puts up. The real battle will come next season...

I still need to settle on a 'good' set/range of values for TA & PH...but I'm sure I'll find that in the forums...

It' s been no harm done, but I am always inspired by efficient and better ways of doing things...even when I don't have the fullest grasp of what I'm diving into.

Thanks for the reset yous guys.

I guess this thread can be closed, if yous want to close it, since my thread originating question has been dealt with. I can always re-ask my above PH/TA related questions in the proper thread...