Stablizer
- Thread starter lapurple
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Deb04
LifeTime Supporter
- Jul 12, 2008
- 779
- Pool Size
- 19000
- Surface
- Vinyl
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-40
You can buy stabilizer in 4 lbs bottles in Walmart. I’ve also bought it from Amazon.
The problem with pucks is that it’s very easy for your CYA to get too high. If your CYA is at least 30, and If you stay on top of it and switch to liquid chlorine as soon as it hits 50, and change your target FC as the CYA goes up, it isn’t wrong to use pucks.
The problem with pucks is that it’s very easy for your CYA to get too high. If your CYA is at least 30, and If you stay on top of it and switch to liquid chlorine as soon as it hits 50, and change your target FC as the CYA goes up, it isn’t wrong to use pucks.
Deb04
LifeTime Supporter
- Jul 12, 2008
- 779
- Pool Size
- 19000
- Surface
- Vinyl
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-40
Not sure what you’re asking.
Sodium hypochlorite = liquid chlorine or bleach.
CYA = stabilizers = cyanuric acid.
Sodium hypochlorite = liquid chlorine or bleach.
CYA = stabilizers = cyanuric acid.
Oh...you said "switch to liquid chlorine". I have always used liquid chlorine and the stablizer tablets at the same time.
- May 3, 2014
- 61,604
- Pool Size
- 6000
- Surface
- Fiberglass
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-40
That is great. It takes accurate and often testing to manage your FC based on the [FC/CYA][/FC/CYA].
The "hockey pucks" are really not sold as a stabilizer product, they are used as a source of chlorine. The side effect is that they are almost half stabilizer so their use sa a chlorine source drives up the stabilizer.
We generally recommend using single source products when ever possible. Just buy 100% CYA and be done with it. Chlorinate the pool with liquid.
But, if you don't mind how slow the "hockey pucks" raise the stabilizer you can use those also.
Thanks everyone for your input. When my "hockey pucks" run out I will switch to the other stuff. 
I've been using them after opening to raise my CYA for the past couple of years because the prior owner left me a giant tub of them. I use the pool math app to tell me how many I need to add to get my CYA up to where it should be.
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