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    Good Morning all,
    You guys are good...after rereading my directions and slooowwwing myself down a bit, I was supposed to multiply by ten....NOT 3. Just tested and came up with....

    PH........7.5
    Cl.........Can see just a whisper of yellow, I would say towards .5 ppm
    TA........110

    There was nothing added to the water, the installer left after there was about 2" of water in the liner, and told me when it was full just add the pucks and crank up the dial on the chlorinator. Using Michael's bleach calc, I am planning on adding enough bleach to get me up to 3 ppm. I am thinking the pucks will bring up the cya in time....is this correct or will I need to help it initially.

    Thanks....and good catch on the alk test. I hope you experts have fun as much fun with this as us new guys.

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    Hi, Roxy,

    About all you need now is some CYA and a little warm weather......you're gonna have a great Summer with your pool.

    I do not use pucks so I can't tell you how quickly your CYA and Cl should register but it seems like yours needs a boost. I would put in enough CYA to bring it up to about 20ppm or thereabouts. Then let the pucks do the rest up to maybe 30-40.

    Likewise, I would put in enough Clorox each evening to bring my Cl level up to about 3-5ppm. The Sun will burn it off the next day so you'll have to keep adding and testing each evening until your test indicates your holding about 3ppm.

    As you keep reading the forum, you'll find most of us don't use pucks. They're very low in pH and, over time, they will cause your CYA to get too high. Right now, you WANT your CYA to come up so pucks (tri-chlor) are fine but you may want to consider some alternatives down the road.

    You've started your pool nicely.

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    Default Re: Pool is Running, First test....

    Looking good! I used to keep in my back pocket how much CYA was in a puck, but I forget off hand. Your alk looks fine, so you don't have to mess with that. Dave is right about the low pH of the pucks, so if you are running the feeder pretty hard, keep an eye on your pH. If it starts heading for 7.2, you'll want to add some borax to bring the pH back up.

    Michael

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    Default Re: Pool is Running, First test....

    Dave,
    The only reason I am using the pucks is because they were included in the "package". My "package" included enough chemicals for three weeks and a test kit. That's about 10 pucks and "guess strips" as I have seen them called here. I will be changing shortly.......thank you

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