SWG Salt test

[dahohm]

We've finished the conversion from baqua to chlorine a little over a week ago! Yeah!! Water looks crystal clear. But now we are having problems testing the salt in the pool. The salt test strips and the SWG readings are different. I did take it to the pool store and it was way different. This is what the numbers are saying:

FC - 6
TA - 80
Ph - 7.8
CH 280
CC = 0.5
CYA - 35
Salt strip 660

The SWG says the salt is at 3000. The pool store said 3300. We have done the salt test strips 3 times this morning and we get a range from 460 to 660. The water tastes salty so we don't know which reading to believe. What should we do

 

[duraleigh]

Is the SWG producing chlorine? If you are producing chlorine (and, really, that's all that matters), then believe the SWG.

The diff between the pool store and SWG is fairly common.

 

[JasonLion]

Your salt test strips are way off. Something must be wrong with them.

The SWG and the pool store agree within the precision of the test (+-400), so your salt level is certainly around there somewhere.