A Few New Questions!!

[MarianParoo]

Well, if they were shut-off to inflow, the pump would certainly let you know! So that must be open position. Shut one off and determine which inlets controls your skimmers and which controls your floor drain. (You can look in your skimmer to see if it's pulling water or not). Then mark the pipes with a sharpie so you remember which is which.

 

[pooldv]

Yes, that is full open position for all 3 valves.

 

[chiefwej]

All three valves are fully open in the picture.

 

[gtemkin]

Yes, all valves in your picture are fully open and I'm assuming what is the main drain on left and the 2 skimmers on right are all having suction applied to them at the same time. - G

Edit: Ooops, didn't see the thread continued onto a second page. MariannParoo, pooldv, and cheifwej already confirmed.

Edit2: I fixed an error I made in my last post for Valve#1. I had left and right flows swapped. The corrected flow directions are surrounded by brackets.

 

[hellstorm2004]

Super thanks again. SLAM is going on. Its getting clearer. Still the deep end is cloudy! With my CYA, i had to pour in a little more chlorine today!

 

[MarianParoo]

Feel free to post numbers if you need help or a double-check!

 

[pabeader]

Super thanks again. SLAM is going on. Its getting clearer. Still the deep end is cloudy! With my CYA, i had to pour in a little more chlorine today!

Don't forget; During a SLAM you need to check your FC often and add back as needed. During the start of the things you could be testing and adding as often as once an hour or two. As the FC starts to hold, then you can stretch it out to 3 or 4 hours.

 

[hellstorm2004]

Cuurently CYA is 70. So i got my FC is at 28 now. I goofed a little with the pool math. As i was calculating SLAM levels for my friend's pool and forgot to change the pool size. So FC went up to 37. This morning it was 25.5 now got it up to 28 again.

 

[hellstorm2004]

Here is the current status:

 

[MarianParoo]

You have been scrubbing that first step!

 

[hellstorm2004]

You have been scrubbing that first step!

Lol! Yes! Then the heat got to me. Ran inside! Although its 27C outside today. Just waiting for winter to come!

 

[MarianParoo]

Have to admit that I'm jealous. I am in sweats and a sweatshirt and I am still cold...

 

[hellstorm2004]

Have to admit that I'm jealous. I am in sweats and a sweatshirt and I am still cold...

Home swap??

 

[hellstorm2004]

Is testing the water at 9:00 in the morning, considered fair enough for OCLT test?? Or should i do it even earlier, like 6:00 or 7:00?

I tested last night at midnight.

 

[JVTrain]

That's more than fair. The OCLT design is to have it over a time period of at least 8 hours where your sun gets no sunlight exposure so that no chlorine loss is due to UV exposure. We're only looking for chlorine consumption due to organics or algae in the OCLT. If you waited til after the sun was up, you would lose just a little bit to sunlight.

 

[hellstorm2004]

Cool. Thanks! The sun hits my pool sometime around 9:45-10:00 and stays till around 18:00. I guess i still have a long way to go, with an overnight loss of 3.5ppm.

Running through bleach like it was water! I might soon run out of R-0871 to keep doing these tests!

 

[JVTrain]

You may have a ways to go or you might be very close, there's no way to tell but to keep after it. Keep brushing as much as you can. Keep the pump running. If you have not removed any niche lights or ladders and scrubbed behind them, do so now. MANY times I've seen folks not passing the OCLT with a crystal clear pool because there was still algae lurking behind a light.

 

[pabeader]

Any new pics!! We love pics, you know

 

[hellstorm2004]

Ah. Scrubbing the lights. I will do it now!

Pics, posting soon!

 

[pabeader]

Some have a screw at the top. Also, I have read of lights that turned out. Like a quarter turn CCW, if I remember correctly. Maybe you have those kind.