Are Trichlor pucks 6ppm of cya?

[borjis]

My pool was down to 35 ppm cya. good.

But I wanted it to be closer to 45-50 max (pool gets full sun every day) so that it would use a little less chlorine each day.

I put 3 leftover trichlor tabs in and they dissolved in a week.

Then I put 4 more in and dissolved.

I tested CYA recently and now its 80ppm.

For a 23,000 gallon pool are the trichlor pucks 6ppm cya each? sure seems like it.

I guess I should have tested after the first 3.

 

[Texas Splash]

(Modified comment) Depends on the type/size of puck. Best to enter the amount used in the Poolmath calculator to be sure. It can add-up fast.

 

[borjis]

Right on.

I was used to it being around 80 before. (beats the 300+ it was a year ago)


I won't be using any more pucks ha ha.

 

[Richard320]

I'd recheck the test results.

Effects of Adding Chemicals at the bottom of poolmath indicates that for a 23000 gallon pool, 7 8oz pucks - 56 ounces - of trichlor should only add 10 CYA. Either you were higher than you thought before or you're lower than you think now or those are some awful big pucks.

 

[chem geek]

That's about right. Depending on the type of puck, one puck can add anywhere from 6-9 ppm. It adds-up fast. Yikes.

Not really. The following are chemical facts that are independent of concentration of product or of pool size.

For every 10 ppm Free Chlorine (FC) added by Trichlor, it also increases Cyanuric Acid (CYA) by 6 ppm.
For every 10 ppm FC added by Dichlor, it also increases CYA by 9 ppm.
For every 10 ppm FC added by Cal-Hypo, it also increases Calcium Hardness (CH) by at least 7 ppm.

Usually "pucks/tabs" are Trichlor. Sometimes one can find Cal-Hypo pucks. Very rarely Dichlor as fast-dissolving small tablets for spas.

A single puck does NOT add 6 ppm CYA to most pools. One 3" 8-ounce Trichlor puck in 10,000 gallons adds 5.5 ppm FC and 3.3 ppm CYA. It adds less in larger pools, more in smaller pools (because the ppm is a concentration so is lower in larger volumes of water).

The amount of CYA in Trichlor and Dichlor is a FIXED amount because it is part of the chemical itself. It is not added separately. Three chlorine atoms are bound to CYA in Trichlor while two are bound to CYA in Dichlor.

 

[Texas Splash]

Thanks for clarifying. When in doubt, go to the calculator.