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    Low TA, High CH required?

    I've had this spa a little over 2 years. My TA runs around 35 to maintain a good PH around 7.6. Of course on poolcalc my CSI is kinda far into the negative - around -4. The water starts with a CH of around 80 and I've always just bumped it to 150 and left it there, but now I'm wondering...
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    Vinyl Cover Maintenace

    First - thank you all for the help. 1.5 years into happy spa ownership thanks to the sage advice of this forum. Now we have a minor problem. The vinyl cover that came with the spa is shot - living in the high desert of NM we have a very high UV index so I'm really not surprised. The spa is...
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    poolcalculator.com issues

    Is anyone else seeing this, both Google Chrome and my Trend Antivirus are warning me that it is infected by something. Here is what google says about it: http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=http://www.poolcalculator.com/&client=googlechrome&hl=en-US The site...
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    Chlorine consumption

    Hey all, Haven't been around for a while - things have been GREAT. We still love the tub and thanks to you all it has been very low maintenance. Current #'s FC - 8.5 CC - <1 pH - 7.6 TA - 50 CH - 130 Assumed other values from prior test or in the case of Borates just educated guess from...
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    New Spa owner here...

    All, first off THANK YOU - what a fantastic resource you have going here. We received our new 290 Gallon spa on April 30th. We were (and are) totally new to spa/water maintenance and had no idea what we were getting ourselves into. Diligently took notes from the spa guy as he told us how to...