My Mineral Springs (AquaRite) unit is in it's 3rd summer and I have been adding tremendous amounts of salt since inception. Earlier this year I called and talked to a tech rep and went through all the button pushing exercises. He told me that the unit was bad and sent me a replacement. (He called later and told me that my original unit was given an acid bath and was in perfect working condition - I had thoroughly cleaned it several times before) The new unit was installed and was reading over 3600 ppm for about a week then began to slowly drop again. In two months I have added 140 pounds of salt and my reading is now at 2600.

I gotta tell you that I'm one frustrated puppy. I had the salt system installed with the pool in order to make things easier, but I'm still checking, rechecking, cleaning cells and adding salt frequently.

I do have a water feature and approximately 60 to 75% of my return is through this feature. I am presently using the bucket evaporation method of checking for a leak.

Anybody have any other suggestions?

Thanks

Ralph