New product: A&H Clear Balance

[CarlD]

According to this link, the Arm & Hammer Clear Balance tablet has the following ingredients:

Sodium Bicarbonate ....... 86.60%
Clarifier and Other Ingredients ........ 13.40%

It is essentially a compressed tablet form of baking soda plus a clarifier. It would mostly be used in pools that use Trichlor tablets/pucks and run at higher TA such that the pH is relatively stable but where the TA would otherwise be slowly dropping over time.

It's not appropriate for a BBB pool (i.e. one using hypochlorite sources of chlorine) as the TA tends to be relatively stable in such pools. In a saltwater chlorine generator (SWG) pool where acid is added regularly, then over time TA will be needed as well, but it is MUCH better to test for that and add baking soda as needed rather than rely on a tablet that dissolves at a rate that you don't really control.

Richard

Besides, you don't NEED clarifier. Plus, regular baking soda is going to be far cheaper--exactly the OPPOSITE of what the pool chem companies want.

[KLHink]

And I don't want clarifier, either. Well, I guess they made a choice to formulate that product that way for a reason, and we are all going to keep on buying the straight stuff from them anyway. I just thought it was an interesting product that might have had possiblilities, and so it does, but not for most of us here. I'm glad chem geek could find the ingredients faster than I could from the Arm & Hammer.
Now I'm just wondering when summery weather will arrive up here and how many pool days we will be allowed when it does... hopefully we've finally gotten the last of our below freezing overnights.