Stabilizer, aka, CYA for cyanuric acid, takes a while to dissolve into your water, from 48 hours up to a week. Meanwhile, if your pH isn't low, you can use an inexpensive floater with tri-chlor tabs to maintain a constant chlorine level and add CYA at the same time. If your pH gets low, below 7.2, you can compensate by addind some Borax. Yup, Twenty Mule Team Borax.
But you will need to test for CYA, but no more than weekly.
If you don't have a good test kit we recommend the Taylor K-2006 or 2006C kits. If you look at Watermom's or PoolDoc's sig you'll see a link to the test kit at a reasonable price.
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