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For starters get your CYA up to 70 ppm, your salt to 3200 ppm and replace the galvanized screws with stainless ones! IF the corrosion is being caused by the generator and not just the salt level lowering the output will help (although I believe it's just because the screws are not stainless.)BIC said:I told them (pool store) about my stabilizer being at only 30, but they said it's ok, we are at the end of the season. They didn't want me to have a chlorine problem if the stabbilizer gets to high. Even in my post here:
http://www.troublefreepool.com/viewtopic.php?t=1898
people kind of said don't add more stabilizer :?..... I'm lost.
I read the thread and the very first answer told you to add stabilizer. The rest of the answers did NOT address your question directly and I believe they just confused you. I have a lot of experience with salt pools and can tell you the higher stabilizer level will allow you to turn the output on your generator down. This will have several effect, the most important being that your pH will not rise as quickly since there will be less outgassing of carbon dioxide and your salt cell will have a longer lifespan.
My salt level is 3100ppm (Aquatrol reading), the pool store says 2500 ppm, but I don't belive that. I put 7.5 bags (20KG each).
That should bring your salt level up to about 2800 ppm assuming a pool volume of 1400 gal. (24' x 4 ' depth). If you pool is deeper than the pool store test is probably right. Your salt level is too low. Get yourself some AquaChek salt test strips and test it yourself. The readout on the Goldline uinit can be off by as much as 600 ppm and still be considered correct for technical reasons that I won't go into here so the two tests are actually in tolerance!So your recommendation is to ADD stabilizer and get it to 60 ppm. I don't think it will help on the corrosion problem, but I can do that easely.
You are aslo saying that grounding the pool will not help to stop the corrosion.
What else should I do?
I would also try to find a different pool store that knows a bit more about salt pools!