The short story is I did not have a choice. My PH always 7.2-7.8 PS233
With 300 TA and 500 CH my brand new pools sand filter after 8 # dichlor
from the pool builder turned into a brick. I had to chisel it out with a hammer.
This sites removing ALK solved 1/2 of my problem. However my good mornig
precipitate covering the bottom of my liner was only 2/3 eliminated.
A 30000 grain water softener and a shallow well pump total $600.
I cycled the water from the pool thru the system continuously. 35K gallons
9 days 36 manual reginerations later. I have got TA=110 CH=150
It used 5 bags of salt.
Some where about CH=300 all the scale and precipitate disolved and went
away.
My CH slowly goes up with fill water and I repeated the water softener
for 4 days this year. However my TA does not go up. I was curious about
that untill I read the CHEM GEEKS relative out gas rates.
Overall the water softener works for me.
My first salt reading 3 weeks ago from a talor kit was 1200. With 1 year old
water this had to come from bleach and the water softener.
I just installed 2 aquarite SWG that are working flawlessly.