Recent content by Cmelser

I decided to buy and use Leslie’s version of Poly quat. It meets all the specs I have seen on this site. I used 8 ounces and the pool was even clearer then I thought it already was. When I turned on the light that evening it was way better. Next day everything started to seem to get better. CC...

Ok. I am stuck. I am running at 65% for 12 hours a day and nothing has really changed I am still at 3ppm at the end of the day. I should be making enough now. We have had a lot of rain and pool has been draining out of the overflow but today I had a good while with no rain and pump running. I...

That is true. They are still at the 1-3ppm thinking. When they found my pool at 6ppm one day they told me not to swim. I guess the no higher than 35% would keep me in between 1-3 so It does now make sense why they were pushing that never thought of it that way.

I test my stabilizer every two weeks. I don’t know if the rain has pushed everything out of whack and not allowing the system to hold chlorine or if I do have a problem. Salt system says it’s getting close to the minimum. I am just really at a loss why no matter what changes I make I can’t make...

Running at 55% for two full days at 12 hours. Have had some rain both days and today I checked level and I am 2ppm. So I added 4 cups of liquid and set system to 65%. Seems something still maybe off somewhere. I feel I am losing more then I should. looks Like I may end up needing salt and...

Ok. Adjusted pump to run 7am until 7pm at 55%. Lowered my RPMs from 2800 to 2650 to see how this goes. Didn’t seem to be gaining last test this afternoon still sitting at 3-3.5ppm. Will see what end of day does. And the 12 hour time tomorrow does at 55%

This is my goal now changing to 8am to 7pm. That will get me through the peak sun.

Partly due to the first year issues. It seemed the more I ran the pump and higher I ran the cell I began to have tons of small white flakes. So I didn’t want to repeat that. Now knowing what I know I think that was related to the pool curing from construction as I had high PH, TA and CH was...

Sure would hate to see what it is without stabilizer and a screen. I guess I am not far off. Better than adding liquid chlorine I suppose. Bigger cell is my thoughts for later.

So am I normal in amount of loss per day? If I am losing normal amount then I can see it’s just a run time or system % issues.

Last year I was fighting the “new pool” so my CH, TA and PH were all high. I have had very little scale showing up on cell since during cleaning have only acid washed once. i adjusted run time to start at 8am and run until 7pm left at 55% for now. Rough math it seems I am losing like 2ppm a...

I raised system to 55% yesterday. Was going to add an hour or two to run time but I didn’t want to start producing the flakes again. I am guessing this little pool gets hit harder than I expect

I added the liquid to get the pool to roughly 5ppm about 30 min after pump shut off. Wasn’t dark but no direct sun. Pump doesn’t run at night so the sun was up this am and system off. Looks like I lost call it a even 1 in over 12 hours. I felt the salt cell was bad last year but it was brand new...

Still looks like I am passing loss test. So if I manually raise chlorine with liquid or shock it holds. After a day or so it drops. So is it I need to run cya higher, pump longer or higher cell settings than 55%? Builder says it should run 8-9 hours and usually no higher than 35% as cell is...

Last one I did the other day I seem to be passing. Unless my stabilizer test is not correct when I read it I have no idea why it does this. No real place for algae to hide. Cleaned my skimmer basin, baskets brushed and vacuumed. Been a couple weeks since I washed filter down. It gets to the...