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    Bromine Obsolete in pool

    Two more questions: (1) How much chlorine should i be looking at adding? I added around 4 lbs of perborate (2) With no Br and some h202 in the pool my water should stay clear right? Or can it still cloud and go worse?
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    Bromine Obsolete in pool

    Is this also true for Monopersulfate? What can i do next time to shock without having downtime/ waiting for my Br lvls to return back to the norm? From time to time my water losses its lust nad hence the shocking...
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    Bromine Obsolete in pool

    Iv been using bromine for a good 3 -4 months now so i should have bromide ions.... if i am following what youv said my pool should have no bromide for the h202 to reduce the H0Br to nothing. My pool should still look and stay clean however even i dont register bromine since i have H202 in my...
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    Bromine Obsolete in pool

    I thought h202 only reduced chlorine whereas if bromine it would have been the reverse with an increase in Br lvl? May i ask why the same did not happen when i added PMS? With PMS i always registered with a higher bromine reading... Why would percarbonate be sold as a shock if its going to...
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    Bromine Obsolete in pool

    Any help would be great, pools is getting worse as i speak. I thought that the perborate would have hydrolized into h202 which should have converted my bromide into hypobromus acid. Any advice would be most appreciated.
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    Bromine Obsolete in pool

    I presume i have done the wrong thing then. When you say adding some chlorine you mean adding chlorine into the sample water and testing if i hold a DPD reading? I thought it should have been something similar to percarbonate in its effect...?
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    Bromine Obsolete in pool

    Having a major problem: Bought some sodium perborate and added to pool thinking that it would shock the water and raise my Bromine lvl. Tested 30 minutes after shocking to find that my DPD test showed 0 Br reading. Thought that the perborate might have bleached out the colour of my DPD i then...