Recent content by boley

I would not suggest using Bromine/Bromide in your setup since you are going to drain it after a few days of use. With such a short amount of use you are not going to get a Bromide bank going just using tabs/pucks in a floater. Using straight Bromide powder to establish the bank would work, but...

The basics are Bromine = FC x 2.25 Recommended Bromine levels for daily use are about 2 to 10 PPM Bromine users don't care at all about CYA. I don't know of any reason to track CC either. To the best of my knowledge all the chemical additions (bleach, MPS, etc) are basically the same as...

When nothing else pressing is going on, the ability to use Bromine as a sanitizer would be great. That would probably mean changing a few calculations.

If the spa was had gunk in it at startup, that gunk may be causing your higher than expected bromine usage. Brand new spas can have gunk/slime/biofilms due to stagnate water sitting in the lines while the spa sat around after testing. My bromine spa is only about 6 weeks old now and was...

From the NSPF website (coloring via me): A CPO® Certification provides individuals with the basic knowledge, techniques, and skills of pool and spa operations. Basic knowledge. He does not do it because he does not know any better. Either he does what you want him to or you find someone who...

From the link pooldv provided How do I use Bromine in my spa (or pool)? "First, you need to establish a bromide reserve in the water. Bromine tablets can do it by themselves but it can take literally weeks until enough dissolves. Some people crush about 6 of them up and put them in the water on...

With this many returns, have you checked with Amazon to see if they will just refund it? This is obviously a defective product.

Thank you for all the effort on Pool Logger. Do you have any plans to incorporate Bromine as a sanitizer option (converting the numbers, leave out CYA and CC)? Thanks again.

Re: "Sticky" water after borates Nice. I like it!

Not a surface thing for me either. It is the way the water feels on the skin. Brand new spa, first fill, my numbers are pretty much perfect. First soak after adding boric acid I noticed a difference in the way the water felt. Initially I though it was just a weird personal preference thing...

I too added borates (via Boric Acid) to exactly 50ppm. Both my wife and I hate the "sticky" way it feels. You are not alone.

In the following thread, the 2nd post addresses the likely source of your sediment. Leslie's pH Lock

I purchased new Sodium Bromide on Monday (Sept 19) and added it to the spa. 1.5 oz for 30ppm. That seems to have fixed the issue. Levels are as expected overnight. Levels as expected following bleach additions after use. It seems pretty apparent that the product Amazon supplied was either...

I appear to have received a bad container of Sodium Bromide (Leisure Time brand) from Amazon. The Sodium Bromide container was not sealed. The included chemical was basically a big chunk of material - not granules (likely had gotten wet). Plus the container was only 70% of the advertised...