Hi Everybody!
You might know me from the thread, "ImPower motor controller not working according to manual" but probably not because I don't think anyone read that thread.
Anyway... we inherited our in-ground plaster pool when we bought this house in 2013 and for the last couple of seasons I have been using 7-way test strips and HTH unstabilized granular chlorine along with the HTH + and - products from Walmart. I have not had trouble clearing the pool in the spring and keeping it clean and clear throughout the season - by sheer luck I suppose.
I plan to switch to the TFP method and I have a TF-100 waiting at a receiver across the border (Canadian, so hoops must be jumped through) that I will pick up tomorrow.
My question is this: Since I have 2/3rd of a pail of HTH unstabilized granular chlorine, can I still use this as part of the process? I think from my reading that using this raises the calcium hardness as that is what the chlorine is bound to in the granules? Can I use PoolMath to calculate how much granulated chlorine I would use instead of bleach/liquid chlorine?
Or is this just going to mess up the TFP process?
You might know me from the thread, "ImPower motor controller not working according to manual" but probably not because I don't think anyone read that thread.
Anyway... we inherited our in-ground plaster pool when we bought this house in 2013 and for the last couple of seasons I have been using 7-way test strips and HTH unstabilized granular chlorine along with the HTH + and - products from Walmart. I have not had trouble clearing the pool in the spring and keeping it clean and clear throughout the season - by sheer luck I suppose.
I plan to switch to the TFP method and I have a TF-100 waiting at a receiver across the border (Canadian, so hoops must be jumped through) that I will pick up tomorrow.
My question is this: Since I have 2/3rd of a pail of HTH unstabilized granular chlorine, can I still use this as part of the process? I think from my reading that using this raises the calcium hardness as that is what the chlorine is bound to in the granules? Can I use PoolMath to calculate how much granulated chlorine I would use instead of bleach/liquid chlorine?
Or is this just going to mess up the TFP process?