TA too low?

[cdadams1223]

Good morning! I cleaned out my Salt Cell last night and per the Hayward video dumped the diluted water from a bucket into the pool. This morning, I cleaned the pool and filter and then tested my water. My TA shot down as did my pH, likely due to the diluted Muriatic acid I added to the pool last night from cleaning that darn salt cell. So I need to ramp this back up to 70?

Anything you see I need to adjust? Thanks as always folks!

 

[mknauss]

I suspect your fill water has TA in it. You can add 20 ppm worth of baking soda, or not. Really not an emergency.

 

[cdadams1223]

Yeah fill water is right at 70 TA. Maybe I’ll just toss a bit in there and retest in 15-20 minutes.

Thanks MK!

 

[mknauss]

Bigger issue is why are you cleaning the SWCG with acid? Try to never do that. At most, use cleaning vinegar. The mineral acid (muriatic) strips the rare earth metals off the SWCG plates.

SWG How It Works - Further Reading

www.troublefreepool.com

 

[cdadams1223]

Bigger issue is why are you cleaning the SWCG with acid? Try to never do that. At most, use cleaning vinegar. The mineral acid (muriatic) strips the rare earth metals off the SWCG plates.

SWG How It Works - Further Reading

www.troublefreepool.com

Well, still learning as I go I guess. Found a YT video with the same Hayward salt cell and that’s what they used. Thanks for posting that link…it was a good read. It looks like citric acid may be even better than vinegar or is that not the case?

When you dump the vinegar in how long do you let it sit?

Thanks!

 

[mknauss]

You can let it sit as long as you like with the vinegar. Not sure I would use citric.

You should not ever need to 'clean' a SWCG. With proper water chemistry, no significant scale will form.

 

[cdadams1223]

You can let it sit as long as you like with the vinegar. Not sure I would use citric.

You should not ever need to 'clean' a SWCG. With proper water chemistry, no significant scale will form.

Thanks MK! I’ll stick with vinegar from here on out. I’ll start checking it every 3-6 months or so and use some other tips I’ve found on this site just now like using a popsicle stick or tongue depressor to knock off visible build up.