Recent content by dkjbama

I've been using a 60mL syringe (no needle of course) to draw water from the pool for my samples. Then I just squirt the required amount into the sample tubes; no mess. It holds just enough to do my three most often done tests, pH, TA, and FAS-DPD Chlorine. They hold up pretty well. I've been...

Speedstir without a doubt.

Shooting from the hip here; if I'm way off, someone please correct me. This is an indoor pool thus you don't have the benefit of UV from the sun to break down the CCs.You may need to use potassium monopersulfate (aka chlorine-free shock) to break down the CCs. As has been said before, you need...

I can't tell from your picture how high your water is. If the pool level is above the returns it would be prudent to plug them before cutting the pipe.

Assuming OP is on city water and not on a well, The Water Quality Reports from OP's town show that their source is surface water from Center Hill Lake. City of Cookeville, Tennessee - 2015 Consumer Confidence Report Surface water doesn't typically have the hardness problems of well water, at...

Yes, it is 8.25%. I stopped by Fred's yesterday to buy some for a SLAM. I picked up 8 jugs. It was marked at $2.99, but to my surprise the bill came to $16 and some change. Receipt showed the price you quote. I didn't use a smart buy card.

What's most puzzling is that the description in OP's signature leads me to believe he's using trichlor pucks. Why on earth would his pH go up?

I was talking to our PB not long after our renovation about water chemistry. He told me that I shouldn't believe everything I read on the internet. I replied: "That's funny, the internet says the same thing about you." He took it surprisingly well.

Those numbers don't quite jive with my experience running our pool and Aquapure 1400 over the past winter. I would say a 200ppm drop for every TEN degrees below 75 is closer to what I observed.

I can certainly confirm this about the powder. I bought 2 50lb pails of the powder this spring and it is a royal pain. My borate level had dropped to 10 over the winter due to the ton of rainfall we had. In short I had to dump an entire 50lb pail into the pool. About a 1/3 of it floated on the...

If you like it, maybe consider bringing that functionality into PoolPal. You could add a tab between "Log" and "Config" and maybe call it "Lightbox." Its a great app no matter what; I'm just thinking out loud here.

I'd like to add: there is another quite useful app I use in my testing. There is a flashlight app that uses the screen instead of the camera flash; it just turns the entire screen bright white. I use the screen as a lightbox for the K-1000 pH test. I find this way to be more consistent than...

My apologies. I stand corrected. I very much appreciate your app and your timeliness in patching improvements to it.

Been using Pool Pal for almost a year now. I'm thinking I paid $2 for it when I got it, but it is free now. I highly recommend it.

Something isn't right. 90% x 12hr pump run time means the cell is running 10.8 hrs a day. You shouldn't need to push it that hard on a 20k gallon pool. That particular cell is rated for a 40k gallon pool. I have the same cell on a 33k gallon pool. I run the pump 18 hrs a day with the SWG duty...