Recent content by uzun

I have a 25,000 gallon pool in the Southern CA area. I am using a Pentair Intellichlor IC40 Sanitizer for my chlorine source. The past few months I have to clean the sanitizer weekly. It did not used to behave this way. It works fine, but I have to clean the unit once every week or two or it...

Perhaps salt was closer to 3900 since pool store maybe was off. I must added 20 or so gallons easily. Roger

Maybe the pool store electronic needle thing isn't accurate. I was just trusting it because it was electronic and I figured they would have something accurate. I drained some water today and added fresh, it's still reading 4200 so I think I have to drain a lot more next time. I guess i should...

I think the 4200 is false, I think the high water temps have the test reading high.

I noticed my salt water generator would occasionally flash green indicating a high salt level. Ideal salt for this Pentair model is 3400ppm, and it indicates flashing green means over 4500ppm. I think the very high pool temps, like 90 plus degrees, make it flash more readily. I bought a...

Ive been keeping close tabs on the FCL levels so I use the 25ml sample so I can follow it more closely.

Oxidizing shock is Pottasium Monpersulfate as per the initial post. I already added a ton of bleach and some of the chlorine shock to the water, and it became slightly cloudy. I guess I will just run the filter a bit more, turn off the SWG and keep the pool uncovered so I can swim in it again...

Prior to this week it would drop 0 overnight. So the drop of 0.4 is new but perhaps within normal? I also have to raise the SWG level this week to keep up which I've not had to do before. Looks like this is within normal though. I have not added oxidizing shock recently, not with 2-3 days...

I posted about a month ago a problem I was having with my SWG not being able to keep up. I needed to properly shock the pool, which I did. I have been closely monitoring the FCL levels since then, and in the past few days I notice they have been dropping, they held steady for about 30 days. I...

It's been a few days now with the SWG back on. Shocking the pool the TFP way DOES seem to have completely cured the trouble. Before this there was never any free chlorine in the pool no matter how much I ran the SWG at 100%. Since the full shock treatment, if I run the SWG at 50% for 5 hours...

I swam today for the first time. The combined chlorine went away Tues afternoon. I dont know why there was combined chlorine but monday night and tues morning there was some. By tuesday afternoon it was down to 0 combined again. The current FC reading is 11.5 with a CC reading of 0. I swam...

This mornings readings were the same almost at 16 FC and 1.5 CC. At least FC stayed the same overnight and the CC went down a little or stayed basically the same. Readings are reproduce able again as well. I had a hard time getting the same reading twice in a row when it was around 30.

I'll let it get back down to normal and use oxidizer to get rid of the cc, and see how the SWG operates first before I go through this again. This really used a LOT of electricity and Chlorine. Roger

Tonight the readings are 16 FC, and 2 Combined Chlorine. I didn't have any combined chlorine before. It was very sunny today, does the sun cause combined chlorine readings to go high? Is this normal or did the shock somehow not work? Throughout the shock process the Combined Chlorine was...

I am thinking about using a couple of pounds of this once a week in my 15,000 gallon pool to keep the SWG running smoothly and avoid having to shock the pool as often. I this stuff helpful in that regard? Roger