Tonight I add salt to my non SWG above ground pool

[The Raddish]

This stuff?? Seems okay to me.

I bought a salinity test kit today, and I am less than 1000ppm at this point. We will be adding at least one more bag to the pool, probably tomorrow.

[ellenicol]

Where did you get a salinity test kit? How do you know how many ppm you should have in your pool? Thanks

[PatL34]

Taylor has a Salt test kit, (K1766), that you can order from your pool store.

Pat

[The Raddish]

Sad to say that no one near me had a dropwise test kit for salinity, so I *GASP* bought some salt test strips.

I figure that I don't need an exactly accurate reading on the salt, so test strips will do fine. It's not doing much more than giving me a ballpark figure anyway.

ellenicol, the conventional wisdom seems to be to add about half the amount of salt required by a SWG for the best benefits. SWG's need around 3000ppm, so I'm shooting for 1200 - 1500ppm. Supposedly you can't taste the salt at these levels, but you still get all the benefits of silky smooth skin, manageable hair, and non-stinging eyes.

Even at around 800ppm, these benefits are already beginning to be present.