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[PoolDoc]

CC - ?? When adding the drops of the R-0003 regent, the sample would not turn pink. I added up to 15 drops and it stayed clear the whole time.

You only need a drop or two. Your result just means you had NO CC . . . which is a good thing.

Ok. With a 26K pool, your PF is 4.5

Do this.

1. Turn your SWCG off -- you're just wearing it out, at the moment.
2. Get 2 gallons of muriatic acid, and lower your pH. Read the muriatic acid page first. Add 1/2 gallon at a time; wait 4 hours; test; repeat till you reach 7.6 or below.
3. CAREFULLY re-read the instructions on your K1766; make SURE you are doing it correctly, and then re-test. If you really have a salinity of 330ppm, your SWCG should be in alarm. (Meanwhile, do #1 above!)
4. Dose your pool with 4 gallons of bleach each evening, till you get dichlor OR get stabilizer above 50 ppm and salt above 3,000 ppm.
5a. Get 50# PoolBrand dichlor at Sams Club, OR at Amazon
5b. Buy some stabilizer locally or at Amazon.
5c. Buy dichlor at Amazon (do NOT get it locally, except from Sams -- most are now hodge-podge mystery blends!)
===> To add 40ppm CYA, you need about 9lbs of stabilizer or about 20 lbs of dichlor. Using dichlor will BOTH chlorinate AND add stabilizer AND lower your pH, so it's a very efficient choice for you, at the moment =======

Get back to me, on your results and actions.

[cjryan33]

Im sorry, I had a typo. My salinity is 3300ppm

[PoolDoc]

OK, good!

[cjryan33]

Alright Doc,

I turned my SWGC off. This morning I added on gallon of Liquid Chlorine before leaving for work( already had this) it is labled Shock - Chlorinating liquid for Pools and Spas. The wife added a 1/2 gallon of muratic acid and 3lbs of BioGuard Stabilizer 100 (already had as well) next trip to Sams will be picking up the Dichlor. Got home and added 3lbs more of Stabilizer and 1/2 gallon of acid. After swimteam came home and tested. The results are as follows

FC - 6ppm
PH - 7.3
CYA - 55-60. All of the stabilizer may not be dissolved as of yet. Thank you for your assistance.

[PoolDoc]

After swimteam came home and tested.

Coach, swimmer, or parent? Summer league or USS?

[cjryan33]

Just a parent. I have two daughters 7 & 9 who both love being in the water. This will be their first year on a team. From what I saw from their first practice is that it is very beneficial to have a pool that they can swim in just about year round.

The wife will be picking up some Dichlor on her next trip to Sams. Should I go ahead and get another bottle of stabilizer to get me to the 70-90 range or wait until I get the Dichlor? From the best guess chlorine chart my chlorine ppm level is where it shoudl be. I have 2 more bottles of the liguid chlorine but I did not put any in this morning. My SWGC is still turned off. Should I go ahead and turn it back on at a lower % output? Thanks.

[PoolDoc]

If you can buy dichlor from Sams, I wouldn't buy any stabilizer. The price is low enough, so that it's cheaper to by dichlor as 50% stabilizer, at $2 per pound, than it is to buy local small quantities of 100% stabilizer at $4 or more per pound.

Buy borax, though, since dichlor will tend to push your pH down over time . . . BUT besides raising the pH, adding enough borax to reach 50+ppm of borates has advantages of its own.