Anyone using salt w/o SWG in their chlorine pool?

[Rangeball]

I had a thought.

Suppose you want to run a SWG and salt is recommended at 3000 ppm (made this up for examples sake). You add the required amount of salt and test the water to make sure you hit the PPM needed.

Fire the unit up, and salt is converted to chlorine and returned to the pool. It eventually breaks back down to salt, and the process starts all over again.

With the FC of say 5 ppm, if you tested the pools salt content after SWG was operational, what would the PPM of the salt be? I assume once converted to chlorine, the "chlorinized" salt wouldn't register as salt?

If this is the case, we should be able to come up with a salt PPM recommendation that gets the good water feel without SWG.

[Rangeball]

Looks like this is the only type of salt I can buy in bulk around here-

http://www.mortonsalt.com/consumer/p...stem_saver.htm

Will this work? Do the pellets take longer to dissolve?

[brent.roberts]

The salt I got was pellets. They were the cleanest I could find without going to salts that have additives.

From memory the comfort level was about 1/2 of the level for a SWG

I'll measure mine tonight when I get home and post it here. I figure it has been diluted about 20% by rain and snow since I did it.

Sure wish we had access to all the old forum posts.

[Rangeball]

The salt I got was pellets. They were the cleanest I could find without going to salts that have additives.

Good to know. These are 99.5% pure. They "melted" that fast in the skimmer, huh?

From memory the comfort level was about 1/2 of the level for a SWG

I'll measure mine tonight when I get home and post it here. I figure it has been diluted about 20% by rain and snow since I did it.

That'd be sweet

Sure wish we had access to all the old forum posts.

You and me both. We hammered this out back then. I was all set for this year, until I came back and found out the posts were poof gone...

I've never added salt to my water. Pool was filled with city water supply. Is it safe to assume that tap water would be relatively salt free? We live in a hard water area according to Morton's website.