Bromine Chemistry Question

[FormerBromineUser]

My, my. I was hoping for a chemist but now I'm a little embarrassed... I have almost no idea what you're talking about!

I will try to respond in the same order that you wrote. First, they haven't checked for CYA until the other day as it is their standard practice not to check CYA for bromine pools. I have not added any stabilizer since last year when a new employee had me use Super Soluble.

The store has checked my ammonia levels all summer and have only once found a small amount. It was gone within a few days. They have never given me any numbers but they always say "no ammonia".

The 64 lb treatment was Burn-out 3.

To my knowledge I have never used anything called Dichlor except that it was in the Super Soluble that I used last year as: "Sodium dichloro-s-triainetrione dihydrate"

I have no reason to doubt their ammonia tests as they always seem a bit confused that I don't have any. I think it would help things out if I did....

Why do you think the demand tests were done improperly? Because the demand wasn't met?

And as to raising bromine levels, to my knowledge, the only thing I do that adds bromine are the tabs. I have my Pentair in-line feeder set at 5 which is the highest level it goes and I top it off every 4 days or so and in the last three weeks, every other day.

No, I do not have an OTO kit. I use Aquacheck bromine strips at home. As the pool store is only 5 miles from me, it is convenient to just have them test on their ALEX system.

I am much comforted that PoolDoc and Chem_Geek are responding. I feel like I have the big guns in my corner. :-)