Hello all. I am new to this forum so bear with me. I have a 24 foot diameter round above ground pool, with an estimated 11,500 gallons of water. I just had the liner replaced 10 days ago and had a salt system added. Based on the recommendation of the Professional Installer, I bought a Compu-pool CPSC-24 generator. Everything seemed to be going pretty well. I started with 240 lbs of salt and added another 40 lbs. to get the "Low Salt" light to go off. The local pool stores all seem to get a different salt reading, but I think I am somewhere around 3300 ppm of salt. A strange thing happened Saturday morning that I cannot explain. I was told to lower th PH in the pool as it was around 7.8. I mixed up a small amount of dry acid in its original bottle and pre-disolved it completely before adding it to the pool. I was also adding water at the same time with the garden hose. As I poured the acid into the pool at the opposite end from the skimmer, I diluted the acid with the hose. A few minutes later the low salt light came on and stayed on until I turned the unit off around noon. Later that evening the unit came on with the timer and all was well. The unit seemed to be working fine and the low salt light was out. I read later in the instruction manual that dry acid is a no-no. Could this have caused the problem? I did not use very much acid and I only lowered the PH from 7.8 to 7.7. I hope I didn't mess up the generator.

Anyway, If there is any advice that anyone wants to share I am only too glad to listen.