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EQArtimus
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Post subject: Liquid Chlorine and Salt  Posted: October 26th, 2011, 10:30 pm |
Joined: October 16th, 2011, 5:26 pm Posts: 25
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I am in the process of putting together a liquid chlorine feeder for my pool and I wanted to get clear about something...
When I add a gallon of 6% bleach to my water, it will raise the FC by 2.1 and the salt by 3.4. Now this is something I could be doing sometimes on a daily basis. So my question is: though the FC essentially completely leaves the water, the salt remains to accumulate. Is this not a much slower version of the CYA situation? The salt will build up over time without draining ?
So if you can taste 2000 ppm of salt, you will notice this buildup after about 600 gallons of bleach? (minus whatever salt is in the water to start with?) Seems like a 4-5 year cycle..??
Is this right?
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BBBliever
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Post subject: Re: Liquid Chlorine and Salt  Posted: October 26th, 2011, 11:25 pm |
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Joined: July 1st, 2011, 11:38 pm Posts: 213 Location: Central Califorina
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Most forms of chlorine will either add salt or calcium.
Most people have to drain/refill due to high calcium long before salt is a concern.
Most people like the effects of salt levels around 2000 ppm. Taste is subjective but the salt will incease so slowly you will likely not even notice it.
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chem geek
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Post subject: Re: Liquid Chlorine and Salt  Posted: October 27th, 2011, 12:42 am |
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Joined: March 28th, 2007, 2:40 pm Posts: 5406 Location: San Rafael, CA USA
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You are basically correct that it takes years for the salt level to build up, assuming no water dilution, and that at some point a partial drain/refill would be needed. This is far longer than would occur with a CH rise from Cal-Hypo (or from evaporation and refill of high CH water) or from a CYA rise from Trichlor or Dichlor. Also, with backwashing/cleaning of the filter and water overflow from summer or winter rains, one usually has dilution of the pool water on a regular basis. In my own pool, I use winter rains to dilute the salt increase from chlorine and Muriatic Acid by roughly 50% each year so I keep the salt level in check at under 1000 ppm.
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