Salt level at 2700 PPM question

[gregugadawg]

ok so the pump is not going to run between 10am and 4pm, saying you keep a chlorine residual of 2-4 ppm that will be gone by 1 in the afternoon, not too mention if people are swimming in the water it isn't going to be filtering at all. I said 8 hours is not going to be more than enough, if anything it is a bare minimum, and those 8 hours need to be continuous and during the heat of the day.

[waterbear]

since most SWG manufacterers recommend CYA levels of 60-80 ppm I really don't think that the chlorine would be gone by 1 pm. Also, splitting your run time into smaller blocks throughout the day and night would help equalize things and extra dogs (trippers) for timeclocks are cheap and readily available!

I have to agree with Janet on this one!

[gregugadawg]

can you tell me one reason you wouldnt run the pump from 9-5 continuosly everyday as opposed to the way he is currently doing it

[waterbear]

I actually run my pump in a similar way. I run it from 10A to 3P so my heatpump can take advantage of the maxmum heat of the day. then my spa (which share the pump and filtration equipment) runs from 3:30P to 5:30P so it will be up to temperature when I come home from work in case I want to use it (once again taking advantage of the afternoon heat for the heatpump), and then my pool runs again from 6P to 9P so I have 8 hours of run time on the pool. Also, I often use the pool in the evenings so this way the filter is running when I am likely to be in it. My SWG output for the pool is set to 15% which keeps my FC at about 3 ppm in the pool and the spa is set to 6% which keep my spa at about 5 ppm FC.

I think I have given you MORE than one reason not to run the pump 9-5 every day but to split it up. My reasons might be different than bell7272's but I see no reason NOT to run the pump as he does.

[Watermom]

Bell7272:
Please do not double post with the same question in more than one forum. It makes it difficult to help when the information and advice is not in the same place. I'm going to move this thread into the SWC forum and merge it with your other thread.

[bell7272]

Sorry about the double post, I did not realize it posted the first time.

Since this thread did take a turn to pump running time, does it matter to have the pump running differently on weekends.

In other words, the reason we run in split times (morning and evenings) is because we have water features that we like running at night when sitting /using the pool after work and we run the pump probably 12 hours per day on weekends due to water feastures, more swimming ,etc.

See any issues here?


Thanks again,


W Bell
Oviedo, FL

[waterbear]

Should not be a problem, you might have slightly higher clorine levels on the weekend but you are also using the pool more so you will have a slightly higher chlorine demand. Should work out just fine. I sort of do the same thing by manually turning the pump on during the weeked when I use the pool if it is during the normal off time.