Hello
This is my first year with my saltwater pool with a chlorine generator and a PH dosing pump. I am experimenting with chlorine, pH, TA levels. I think I am getting better at it. My pool is an overflow type, roughly 24,000 gallons, outdoor private usage in summer with plenty of sunlight.
My understanding so far is that under my current setup I still need to shock chlorine my pool every other week. I wasn’t informed about this when I made my purchase decision. Now I am thinking maybe I should have gone with an Ozone generator solution.
If we ignore the part and installation costs and focus only on near automatic maintenance of the pool and swimmer health, should I:
A) add an Ozone generator as main sanitizer to the existing set up and tune down the chlorine generator
B) add an Ozone generator and a liquid chlorine dosage pump to maintain minimum chlorine levels and get rid of the salt water (basically sweet water)
C) add an Ozone pump, get rid of salt water, and manage minimum chlorine levels manually with chlorine tablets or other solid or liquid chlorine products
Someone actually asked me why I didn’t opt for option C from the beginning. Interestingly during the shopping stage nobody offered this solution, but it sounds very viable and costs would have been very similar to my current setup. Anyhow I don’t want to digress.
Basically I would like to get rid of the chlorine shocking process. Moreover some of the kids complained about nausea and eye irritation even though I maintain 1.5-2ppm chlorine levels. My pH is maintained automatically at 7.2 (my TA is 50ish cannot accurately read from the color strip, I made it that way because my water supply is 7.7pH and together with the chlorine generator pool pH was going up fast and pH dosage pump had to pump more). So going down to 0.5-1ppm chlorine levels sound useful with the side benefit of reducing the pH up push by the chlorine generator. I still haven’t decided whether to have a salt taste in the water or not, hence the saltwater discussion.
Thanks
This is my first year with my saltwater pool with a chlorine generator and a PH dosing pump. I am experimenting with chlorine, pH, TA levels. I think I am getting better at it. My pool is an overflow type, roughly 24,000 gallons, outdoor private usage in summer with plenty of sunlight.
My understanding so far is that under my current setup I still need to shock chlorine my pool every other week. I wasn’t informed about this when I made my purchase decision. Now I am thinking maybe I should have gone with an Ozone generator solution.
If we ignore the part and installation costs and focus only on near automatic maintenance of the pool and swimmer health, should I:
A) add an Ozone generator as main sanitizer to the existing set up and tune down the chlorine generator
B) add an Ozone generator and a liquid chlorine dosage pump to maintain minimum chlorine levels and get rid of the salt water (basically sweet water)
C) add an Ozone pump, get rid of salt water, and manage minimum chlorine levels manually with chlorine tablets or other solid or liquid chlorine products
Someone actually asked me why I didn’t opt for option C from the beginning. Interestingly during the shopping stage nobody offered this solution, but it sounds very viable and costs would have been very similar to my current setup. Anyhow I don’t want to digress.
Basically I would like to get rid of the chlorine shocking process. Moreover some of the kids complained about nausea and eye irritation even though I maintain 1.5-2ppm chlorine levels. My pH is maintained automatically at 7.2 (my TA is 50ish cannot accurately read from the color strip, I made it that way because my water supply is 7.7pH and together with the chlorine generator pool pH was going up fast and pH dosage pump had to pump more). So going down to 0.5-1ppm chlorine levels sound useful with the side benefit of reducing the pH up push by the chlorine generator. I still haven’t decided whether to have a salt taste in the water or not, hence the saltwater discussion.
Thanks
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