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I have put 2 gallons of hydrogen peroxide and the colors are still purple for PH and orange for chlorine on my test rack. I will put the other 2 gallons and go from there. Any other suggestions for now?
see my ps
I have put 2 gallons of hydrogen peroxide and the colors are still purple for PH and orange for chlorine on my test rack. I will put the other 2 gallons and go from there. Any other suggestions for now?
There is something not right with this testing. Not only should 4 gallons have lowered your FC by quite a bit more, I would think you would also have some CC's from it.After 4 gallons of hydrogen peroxide, my PH color is yellow and my chlorine color is still bright orange. I went and got the analysis from the store as well:
Free Chlorine 17.36ppm
Total Chlorine 17.36ppm
Combined Chlorine 0 ppm
PH 6.9
Hardness 138ppm
Alkalinity 0 ppm
Cyanuric Acid 3ppm
Copper 0.2ppm
Iron 0.3ppm
my PH color is yellow and my chlorine color is still bright orange.
- spin lab discOk, something is wrong here
There are only a handful of possibilities:
1, The Hydrogen Peroxide was really really old (you might want to check for expiration dates on those bottles) the expiration dates are good!
2, You still have something adding Chlorine to your pool, if it is not manual addition , maybe your SWG is not really turned off
- nothing is adding chlorine, everything is for sure turned off and the filter has been cleaned with new sand
3, Your FC was WAY higher than 18 to start with and the Pool Store testing is way off. Has the color changed at all on the OTO chlorine test? Here is a link to the extended OTO colors and approximate FC they relate to Extended OTO color comparator? before it was 21.2 exactly ( i looked back at test from store)
Ike
p.s. do you know how the pool store is testing, drop based kit, color matching test strips, other?
Don't trust a purple pH with high chlorine. High chlorine turns the ph test purple and therefore not accurate.
Hydrogen peroxide can work if it's all chlorine. If there is bromine in the water, you're going to need thiosulfate.
At this point, you really need the fasdpd test for chlorine.
What is the TA (Total Alkalinity)?