Bubbles and Flakes

[mas985]

Keep your CH close to 200 and your PH in the correct range and the flakes will disappear.
Greg

Easy for you to say . With fill water over 350 ppm hardness, it is very difficult to keep the pool below 400 ppm. The only thing I have to work with is alkalinity and PH and that does not seem to be enough.

[waste]

Oh, sorry, I thought this was a thread about some of my old girlfriends - seriously, Sean, as per usual, has the right take on this.

[oasisdave]

Ok, heres my test results:
FC - 3
CC - 0
TC - 3
PH - 7.5
Alk - 110
Cal - 420 up from 370 on 7/6/06 but had the flakes then too.
Cya - 40
Temp - 87

I noticed today that the water looked just a little cloudy.

Right now my equipment runs from 6:00 Am to 2:00 Pm. The Aquarite is running at 70% and the salt readout on the control panel is 3200. I don't have the salt test from Ben so this is all I have to go by. Another strange thing I have noticed about the Aquarite is that if I up the generating time to say 80% the salt reading drops to 3100. If I lower the generating time that salt readout climbs. Anyone know why it does this?

Mas985 - The flakes I have sink to the bottom, they seem to collect in the shallow end below the return jets. They stay on the bottom until the water gets disturbed then scatter everywhere. I always seem to have the flakes no matter what season it is.

[tonyl]

You might try raising the CYA up to the recommended levels of 60-80 to allow reduced output level. I run my AquaRite 8 hrs a day at 30% for 20k, full sun, CYA at 80. It won't eliminate the flakes but maybe reduce them enough that it's minimal.

[Poolsean]

OasisDave,

Have you removed the cell and inspected it for the same calcium flakes?

[oasisdave]

Last time I removed it was about a month ago to clean the cell. Didn't think to look for the flakes though. I will give that a try. As far as my water chemistry goes, did everything look pretty good to you?

[oasisdave]

Well, I got my Ph down to around 7.3 and for some reason that seems to have helped a little. I looked inside the cell and there seemed to be some flakes clinging to the plates inside. Next step for me is to call Aquarite tech support and see if they have any more suggestions. (maybe the unit isn't reversing polarity correctly?) There HAS to be something I can do to get rid of these things!