Where to buy the salt

[Sardian]

Would this salt from Lowe's be ok?

http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?actio...656&lpage=none

It's much cheaper than Leslies.

Russell

[waterbear]

Yes, that or the Sun Gems which are larger crystals...both are fine and about the same price!

[rak70]

Thanks for the advice.. I'll be heading to Lowes or Home Depot to pick up the salt and the local pool store to get the Taylor test kit Wednesday afternoon. Just got my Aquarite in the mail today.

[rak70]

Well been running since Thursday morning and everything went great. Got the Aquarite installed in about an hour and started adding salt Wednesday. Lenny took your advice and bought a Taylor test kit before adding salt and you were correct. I already had 600 ppm so that subtracted 3 bags. I used the Solar water conditioner salt from Lowes for 4.00 a bag. It was 99.5% pure with no iron additives or anything like that. Worked fine no staining or anything but I did add a metal sequesterant before the salt just in case.

I think I'm really gonna like this system.. My salt is at 3300ppm and the Aquarite set at 30%. I'm running the pump 11 hours a day. My CL is holding at 4-5 ppm so I'll probably dial it down a little further...

[Sardian]

I'm glad to hear it went well for you. Construction on my pool will be completed in about a week and I can't wait to get out there and get my AutoPilot hooked up. I guess I need to drop by Lowes and get my salt so I'll be ready to go.

Russell

Well been running since Thursday morning and everything went great. Got the Aquarite installed in about an hour and started adding salt Wednesday. Lenny took your advice and bought a Taylor test kit before adding salt and you were correct. I already had 600 ppm so that subtracted 3 bags. I used the Solar water conditioner salt from Lowes for 4.00 a bag. It was 99.5% pure with no iron additives or anything like that. Worked fine no staining or anything but I did add a metal sequesterant before the salt just in case.

I think I'm really gonna like this system.. My salt is at 3300ppm and the Aquarite set at 30%. I'm running the pump 11 hours a day. My CL is holding at 4-5 ppm so I'll probably dial it down a little further...

[CHParker]

The Home Depot by me sells 80lb bags of 99.5% solar water conditioner salt granules for $7.99 per bag.

[gwrace1]

The Home Depot by me sells 80lb bags of 99.5% solar water conditioner salt granules for $7.99 per bag.

That's what I used and they worked great. They did not take but a few hours to dissolve. We are running our Aquarite at 40% for 12 hours a night with pump on low speed. With a 26000 gallon pool that maintains about 2.5 PPM FC with a stabilizer level of 35PPM. It's been working great since early March.
Salt level is at 3300PPM.