Recent content by Florida Ron

That's weird. The first thing I did was update my signature when I signed up. I'll update it again later when I'm off the road. In the meantime, here is what you need. Yes, I tried the Overnight test and it never goes down more than 1 ppm, then creeps up a little during the day and then...

Long story short, I have been battling with keeping chlorine in the pool. From what I can tell, everything seems OK. FC seems to be steadily going down for whatever reason but never more than 1 ppm overnight. FC 2.5 CC 0 pH 7.6 CH 500 TA 90 CYA 70 Salt 4600 I inspected the cartridge filter...

Just double checked my kit. It's there. Must have missed it. My mistake.

My receipt wasn't itemized. $145 for the tf100, magnetic stirrer, salt test, xl option

That's weird. I got my TF100 last week and it didn't have a control sample in it. Was this one of the options I needed to choose or was it supposed to come with it automatically?

So while testing my chemistry this morning I noticed something weird. There is a cylinder marked chlorine only. When I fill it to 10ml and then pour it directly into a different cylinder (from Taylor) it reads higher than 10ml. So I then decided to test the chlorine in both cylinders filing...

Not sure about the water table. I would assume it is a little high since the PB added extra pea gravel under the pool to stabilize. I am only going to drain about half anyways and refill. According to the calculator that is what I should do to correct the CH. The salt I can correct later...

Yes, definitely get a Boost if you are going to use SONOS. Using your router to route the SONOS traffic is a nightmare. SONOS is much more reliable when it creates it own mesh network.

I'm using the Taylor kit that I got with the TF100. Yes, I added 2 bags of salt last week to bring my levels up to the manufacturer's suggested level for their chlorine gen. The last readings I got from the pool stores were 3200 & 3500. 2 bags should have put me close to where I needed to be...

There is a hose bib in between the pump and the filter. When the bib is open is allows water to flow out to adjust the water level but it doesn't completely divert all of the water from going through the rest of the system.

I do A/V for a living and I think SONOS is the best option, hands down. I will say this, their amps are extremely underwhelming. I have a pair of Speakercraft OE8's connected to an old Yamaha amp with a SONOS connect and it really jams. My backyard is pretty big and I can clearly hear all of...

Having to do a partial drain on my pool today due to some high CH and high salt levels. Trusting the pool store to do these readings was a big mistake. My main question is this. Once the water gets below the return lines in the pool the water is just going to be gushing out of them. Is this...

OK, I will. Just kind of disheartening that you can't trust people these days. Looks like I will doing a partial drain today since the CH and Salt is high. Won't make this mistake again. :-(

I'm not saying one or the other. I was just curious as to why there might be such a difference. Are they really just that careless with these tests or just trying to extort money out of people? All of the other readings I got were pretty much in line with what they got except for those two...

I received my test kit in the mail a few days ago and I have been taking some time trying to learn everything. The only 2 tests that I'm baffled by is the CH and Salt. I have run them several times and am getting quite a few different readings than I have been getting from my 2 local pool...