Quote Originally Posted by CarlD View Post
Posting at 3:53am? Richard, you're too much into this for the winter!

Remember one thing about the salt: The "inert ingredient" in Liquid Chlorine/Bleach is, of course, brine/saline/saltwater. That's probably the cause of your salt rising.

Bleach is made from saltwater.
It was 12:53 AM on the west coast where I am, but you're right, that's still late.

I figured with the 0.5 ppm FC average addition per day and that 1 ppm FC adds 1.6 ppm of salt (0.8 ppm from chlorine that becomes salt when it gets used up plus 0.8 ppm of salt directly) that over 7 months of summer use that is 0.5*1.6*7*30=168 ppm. I guess two seasons of that plus the small amount over winter plus what was leftover and diluted from previous seasons plus the 280 ppm from the Calcium Chloride adds up to at least 616 ppm. If I had around 200 ppm leftover from previous seasons diluted in half each season that gets me to over 800 ppm. When I did the math last night, it didn't work out, but then again that's what I get for trying to "think" at 12:53 AM!

So cool. Now I've got one of those near-1000 ppm salt pools. I wonder if my wife will notice anything different.

Richard