Re: Removing calcium and magnesium?
aquarium, as I understand water softener operation (I've had two over the years), you should be able to operate the softener continuously until you've reach the resin bed capacity which would be around 1800 gallons for a CH of 340 ppm in a 36000 grain capacity softener. Then you regenerate the resin in the softener which takes around two hours and proceed with operation. The only caveat is that you need to make sure the salt used to regenerate the resin is totally dissolved which could take some time depending upon the type of salt you use. You can get automatic regenerators that will regenerate based on the water usage vs. timer based regeneration or manual regeneration.
So, given those capabilities, I think you could reasonably fill a 18000 gallon pool in 3 to 5 days...or faster with a high flow rate softener.
Chuck
16,000 gallon gunite/plaster, Pool Pilot Digital SC-60, Pentair UltraFlow 1 HP pump, Pentair Tagelus TA 60 filter, Polaris 280
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