CH Questions

[medvampire]

First let me say thanks for taking the time out of your schedule to answer questions here. I am getting a lot of great info by picking your brains and doing a lot of reading. I have a pretty good understanding of basic chem. and am in the process of gaining understanding of pool chem... Inorganic chem. was tough for me in college and I still have concepts flying over my head.
About the N2 I got “pool stored” when I bought the pool and after a little reading on what it was realized that 0.5 ppm cl wasn’t gonna cut it. From work in the hospital lab I know that the low levels of silver and copper would have little kill factor. I have seen many eye and ear infections from the above ground pools here so I wanted a good kill factor. I didn’t plan to waste my money next year on cartridge but buy one of Ben’s kits. I will not replace the cartridge but leave the vessel in line because it has a puck feeder.

Let me pick your brains a little more ……
As for shocking I was “pool stored” into thinking I could use Oxy Shock and not need to shock with bleach. I dumped some in about 3 weeks ago could this still be hitting my FC DPD readings?
Is it possible for me to create a chart using the OTO test with my CYA level I could hand my future wife and she could dump Clorox in while I am in rotation? (I finely got her convinced that Clorox is a good thing and she agreed to dump it in based on something simple if it works.)
Can I have her use AquaChem pH Decreaser (sodium bisulfate) and then use muriatic acid when I am home? (She won’t touch muriatic acid)
I understand the need to “shock” the pool but the practice of shocking just because the planets have aligned, I get a tarot card with a pool on it, or the pool store guy told me to is hog wash? Wait for CC to get over 0.5 or a whiff of motel pool smell?

I am trying to make it as easy on her as possible to switch to BBB when I am on rotation for a week at a time. I get about 7 to 8 hours at home each day. We cross paths for just a few moments each day so not much time to talk about the pool. I am gonna try to set up the chart Saturday for her. I come out of rotation at 7 Friday morning (yyyyeeeesssss!!!!)
Thanks
Steve