Recent content by JayG

Thanks for the feedback. I'll forget my "experiment".

I've been benefitting from this forum for years. Because we live in the NE, for all that time, I've been draining down the water level to below the return jets, blowing out the lines, etc. In other words, winterizing by the book. Today, I covered our pool (mesh cover) to avoid the coming...

To the OP: Mknauss is correct in that the most important NaCl reading is what makes your SWCG happy. I have a Circupool and it doesn't appear too fussy about salinity (up to a point). When opening the pool, I will do the Taylor 1766 test and add salt to get to ~4000 ppm and generally my SWCG is...

I second the vote for Circupool and for upsizing. Mine has been utterly reliable for 3 years. I have a 35,000 gal pool and run my pump 24/7 but the SWCG (sized for 60K gallons) runs at 30% or roughly 7+ hours a day. Don't forget the salt. I just added 400 lbs of water softener salt (buy from...

Netwizz, I bought brand new reagents from the TFP store. I was leery that my CYA was so low on opening, but the new reagents and the old both told the same story.

Agree that it sounds like a lot. But pool math says I needed 18 lbs to get up to where I need to be. I will add in 1 lb increments, but for some reason my CYA was very low on opening this year.

Up until now, I've relied on the liquid CYA. This is my first time with the solid form. FWIW, it says "cyanuric acid" and "stabilizer" "50 lbs". It came in a big blue bucket. It is definitely a fine powder. Fine enough to come out of the sock I put in the skimmer. Fine enough that it was a pain...

I just recently tried the sock method and the powder quickly made the skimmer look very similar to when I would pour the liquid version. I assume that the liquid is not a "solution" but rather a "suspension" that lodges into the filter and dissolve over time. It seems the sock just keeps the...

FWIW, I've been maintaining 5-5.5 FC with a CYA of 70 for a week or so with the RJ60+ running at 25% (24/7). Previously, I was metering about 96 oz of 13% bleach per day which was about spot on for a 2 ppm/day loss. The SWG runtime calculator says I would need 4.5 hrs of runtime to replace 2...

I think things are on the right track in our pool. I've been running the RJ60 at 25% (VSP runs at low speed 24/7) and have been maintaining an FC of 5. Not sure what was going on earlier. Never had evidence of algae or a bad OCLT, but now it seems to be working. I'll admit I panicked and...

So, at first testing it looks promising: after 14 hr of 80% the RJ60 added 3.5 ppm for a total FC of 13. I will now turn it down to 25% for 6hr of daily SWG runtime.

Thanks Kelly! :D:D:D

OK. After 2 sunny days, FC is now 9.5 (CC=0). NaCl reads 4200 on the RJ60 (range 3500-4500 ppm). Actual NaCl testing shows 4800 (but the RJ60 seems happy). Water temp=72°F. CYA (hate that test) now reads 50. Flow at 2000 RPM is ~30 GPM. I restarted the SWG cell at ~5 pm to run overnight at 80%...

a Exactly :-) Thanks Kelly. I went to SLAM levels to test the hypothesis that I had occult algae. I don't think that was the case b/c the pool has remained very clear and the OCLTs have been negative (no loss). After the first negative OCLT (despite a SLAM-level FC), I turned on the SWG to 80%...

Passed the OCLT again: 19.5 ppm FC last night; 19 ppm this morning. I will wait until the FC is 10 before I restart the SWG. I'm still not sure I understand what is happening.