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Foam is often caused by: * Washing machine detergent residue on bathing suits * Residue from shampoo, body wash, deodorants, lotions, moisturizers, sunscreen, other such personal care products Foam is reduced by: * Manually scooping out the foam. * Ensure all bathing suits that enter the water...

You haven't seen a Bullfrog EOS3 ozonator work then. Each hour with this EOS3 on will drastically drop FC, this thing is powerful. 8 hours will drop 10ppm FC to the 0-2 range. I have custom ozone runtimes based on bather load / lack of any bathers. This is not correct. Regardless of the...

Step 3 on page 14 of your Bullfrog A-series manual states "Never fill the spa with soft water unless an appropriate mineral supplement is immediately added" Now you can opine about manufacturers trying to convince you to buy their products, but you should also consider if their statement has...

"Adding calcium chloride in the hours before or after treating with soda ash (sodium carbonate) or baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) will result in cloudy water. Never mix sodium bicarb or soda ash with calcium chloride. These chemicals are incompatible because they will bind together and cloud...

My municipal city water pH is over 9 out of the tap, by design. Several North American municipal water utilities adjust water pH upwards, to the 8.8 - 9.4 range, in order to reduce lead, copper, and other metals that can corrode/dissolve into drinking water. Such municipalities include: San...

Just in case you have to diagnose the SWCG sometime in the future, be aware that A1 isn't always on - it is intended to run the circulation pump and ozonator (one or the other, and even both via the optional PP1 splitter) in accordance with the spa pack's programming logic. That logic usually...

@Bosley Open the YE box, on the inside of the cover is the electrical diagram. Your YE board should have a 120V Direct output at A0 (top right). Pin1 (black) should be live, Pin4 (green) should be ground. If the 4-pin A0 output connector doesn't exist, the equivalent should be: P1 = P32 (black /...

I buy the 3.6L plastic jugs of 10.8% pool chlorine, and when I need to add chlorine, I pour from the plastic jug into a glass pasta sauce jar with mL/oz markings, which are accurate enough for my needs, then pour from the glass jar into the tub. No issues with splashing or drips. Always store...

Buy a 9kg tub of Bioguard Optimizer Plus, which is 100% boric acid and pH neutral. The old Bioguard Optimizer (without the Plus) is tetraborate pentahydrate, which drastically increases pH and usually you need to counteract with acid. If you ever need to increase pH, 20 Mule Team Borax is great...

My only suggestion is to get a kitchen scale with 0.1g precision, and measure the mass of your dichlor, instead of going by volume (tablespoons). As many professional bakers know, each tablespoon/teaspoon/cup you scoop of granulated/powdered ingredients can be significantly different in mass...

With a TA between 80 and 120, and 0 borates, I found that pH rose very fast, from 7.6 to 8+ with 2-4hrs of having the jets on. To prevent pH from rising (caused by jets aerating the water): 1) keep TA as low as possible, my tap water is below 30. 2) never add any TA increaser aka sodium...

The bigger Bullfrog spas (like my A7) come with 2 big coreless filters. These are very effective at filtration especially if you do a thorough filter cleaning every 2-3 weeks, meaning use a Filter Flosser to thoroughly blast contaminants off each pleat, then soak the filters in Oxyclean/Cascade...

Your CH is quite high - the cloudiness could just be calcium. Reduce your CH to the 150-180 range, which is higher than the minimum for the purpose of reducing foaming. If you don't have foaming issues, use the lowest recommended number to rule out precipitated calcium. High CH can accelerate...

My skin dries out at 5ppm FC too, so I would bet that's 95% of the problem. I like 2ppm FC for a 1-person soak, 3ppm for 2 people, and 5ppm if there's 3 or more. Instead of being the first to jump into 5ppm FC water, wait until a few other people have soaked in it with jets on for 10-20 minutes...