Need Help!

[Watermom]

I put a link to this thread in the equipment section of the forum so maybe some of our equipment/filter people will see it and come take a look at this problem for you.

[wxwmn02]

I got the test kit from walmart, now what? Do I test for total chlorine/total Bromine? The level of that only goes up to 10, thought I need it up to 15?

[Watermom]

You don't have bromine in your pool.

Run all the tests. If your chlorine level is higher than the tester can go, you can use dilution to make it go higher. Take one part pool water and 1 part distilled water. Mix them together and fill your test vial with it. Then run the test and multiply the results by 2. If that doesn't read high enough, take 1 part pool water and 2 parts distilled, test and multiply by 3, etc.

Post all your numbers tomorrow and also tell us how the water looks.

[CarlD]

The OTO test is for both chlorine and bromine-based pools. If you have a bromine-based pool (and you don't) the scale goes to 10ppm. If you have a chlorine-based pool, the scale goes to 5ppm. That's why it's marked 5/10. Ignore the bromine scale.