Have your pool chemistry balanced before you add salt and turn on the SWCG.
The SWCG works best at maintaining the chlorine level in the pool, but only if the pool chemistry is within the SWCG vendor's limits.
Pat
Re: Pool Just Filled, Want to do it Right First Time
Have your pool chemistry balanced before you add salt and turn on the SWCG.
The SWCG works best at maintaining the chlorine level in the pool, but only if the pool chemistry is within the SWCG vendor's limits.
Pat
20,000 Gallon IG Diamond Brite pool, 1.5 HP Sta-Rite pump, Hayward Microclear DE3600 filter, Favco solar panels, Poolpilot DIG-220 with SC-48 cell.
+ SWCG OPERATION thread here: http://www.poolforum.com/pf2/showthread.php?t=1226
+ SWCG Running Costs post here: http://www.poolforum.com/pf2/showthread.php?t=316
+ Effective Stabilizer addition post here: http://www.poolforum.com/pf2/showthread.php?p=6645
Re: Pool Just Filled, Want to do it Right First Time
I added 1.4 gallons of Bleach Last night and this afternoon I added 2 lbs of Borax with the pump running in the return stream, and 4 hours later added another 2 lbs of Borax and let circulate 3 hours.
I am going to have the water retested tomorrow morning and see where I am sitting.
Thanks for the replies.
Re: Pool Just Filled, Want to do it Right First Time
jl,
Here are Ben's startup procedures: http://www.poolsolutions.com/gd/startup_tips.html.
Chlorine first, pH second, calcium third (not applicable in your case), and then alkalinity.
Borax will raise pH and is the recommended product for doing that. The Borax calculator in BleachCalc, however, is for raising the borate level in your water as an algaecide. Same product but a different use than you're looking for.
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