Tonight I add salt to my non SWG above ground pool

[cleancloths]

While it likely has done no harm, it will impact the overall water balance chemistry. Salts act as buffers and you should already be buffered, thus you will end up with slighly salty water - if you like that go for it, but I would never add a chemical that I really don't need.

There are millions of people that claim things do things that they really don't - that does not make them right.

I would be interested in seeing some technical documentation (not just opinions) that adding NaCl to a chlorine sanitized pool has value. Please let me know of a link where I can see that.

Thanks

[waterbear]

While it likely has done no harm, it will impact the overall water balance chemistry. Salts act as buffers
Sodium chloride does not act as a buffer at all, it posses no buffering ability whatsoever!....Buffers are composed of an acid and their correspnding ion such as carbonic acid/ carbonates and bicarbonates or boric acid/borates
and you should already be buffered, thus you will end up with slighly salty water - if you like that go for it, but I would never add a chemical that I really don't need.

There are millions of people that claim things do things that they really don't - that does not make them right.

I would be interested in seeing some technical documentation (not just opinions) that adding NaCl to a chlorine sanitized pool has value. Please let me know of a link where I can see that.
basically all it does is raise the salinity closer to the isoelectric point of the human body which will inrease comfort and feel less harse to the skin and eyes.
Thanks

Hope this helps explain things a bit