Your PH and alk #s look fine. You may need to bring your CAL up since you don't have a vinyl liner pool, but wait for advice here as I have no experience with non vinyl lined pools.
1.5g of 6% bleach in your 34,500 gallon pool gives you only 2.6 ppm of FC. Your target FC should be 2.8 (11.5% of your CYA). It's not clear if you added CYA to get to 50 ppm but the pool hasn't tested there yet, but it can take up to a week for CYA to fully dissolve and register via testing.
2.6 ppm of chlorine every other day is probably why you are showing 0 TC. Chlorine is consumed by many things, not just sun. If I were you, I'd add enough bleach to get to the target FC, then add what is being lost daily every night. More trips to the pool, but more stable FC and less chance of algae taking hold.
Using bleach for chlorine isn't necessarily cheaper than other options, but if you stay ahead of your pool, it is much cheaper as it doesn't have the side affects of other standard options (broadcasting dichlor or trichlor puck feeders) and it will give you a nice sparkling pool and save you from spending a bunch of money and headache to clear an algae bloom.
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