Recent content by Gooserider

Many thanks - sounds like I will either investigate further after I get the pool swimmable, or possibly wait until fall closing... Closing isn't a bad time since I'm already pumping the pool down part way. Not a big deal to pump it down to the point where it is possible to easily reach the...

We are just looking at opening our pool this year - because my GF has been out of work since last August (anyone need a Senior Software Engineer?) we had been planning on not opening in order to reduce the expense, but the extended family wants us to.... Last year, I was seeing symptoms that...

Well it is looking better... I dumped in 4 boxes of borax Saturday morning, :whoot: and that seems to have gotten everything more or less in range. Water is now clear enough to see all the **** on the bottom (I need to make a repair on the pressure line for the robot, and I have to get a pair...

From pool school I have gotten the following recommended values - FCC - 4-6, shock 24 pH - 7.5-7.8 TA - 60 - 80 (SWG man says 100-120) CH - 250-350 CYA - 70-80 Borates 50 Salt 3000 - 3500 CSI should be between -/+ 0.6 Other than the big difference in TA suggestions between here and the manual...

I may need to modify the programming on my box, but right now if I want to run split cycles (2 shorter cycles / day rather than one longer one) two hours / day is my smallest change increment - I can set each short cycle in one hour increments, or if I go to one long cycle / day I can set it in...

I don't have any faith in my CYA number, as the test seems so hard to get a reading on, and my number is way off what the pool-store testers get - while my numbers for other tests are usually pretty close.... That said, I'm now up around 40 by my testing. I have the pump running 10 hours /...

I do more or less pitch things in, but it's not totally random... I *KNOW* that I will be low on several areas, simply because I pumped out about 2 feet of water in the fall when I closed the pool - usually replaced by snow/ rain over the course of the winter, with some added town water as...

Sort of what I figured... I was thinking in terms of dumping in a bunch of sticks / pucks / tabs (AFAIK, its like pasta - all the same stuff, just different shapes :p ) along with a gallon or so of 12% when I open in order to help keep the FC up without having to be there to keep dumping in the...

I am fine with the way the PC works now, but it just seems like it would require less manual entry if it supported a range and set that per the goal levels.... Not a big deal, just file under the "would be nice" list, and drag it out for consideration if working on the next revision... Thanks...

Ran some more tests today, after adding some stabilizer, though it hasn't all dissolved yet... My TFP testkit CYA is now up to around 35 (from under 20) and the FC level had also increased from 4 to 6.5 - so I've cut the pump run time down to 5 hours on / 7 off, and the SWG from 40% to 30%...

Thanks for the comments... I haven't had any eatin' size frogs in the pool :cry: :p just the little ones... Also one or two baby snapping turtles, but an amazing number of mice - though it varies a lot, I can go for weeks without any, and then I'll have a stretch of 1-3/ day... Those...

OK, that makes a little more sense when you put it that way... Will add some more stabilizer, and see what happens. Looks like that is one of the few things I actually need to get at the pool store - to bad there isn't a lower budget alternative... I know when I was just bumping up my CH...

I forget just how I came up with the 6 on / 6 off figure, but I know the recommendation is to have one or two turnovers / day, where theoretically all the water passes through the filter. It was also suggested that more short cycles was better than one long one... Given my old pump and filter...

Thanks JL, though I have to say that I'm not getting it... :confused: I look at the chart which says that the more CYA I have, the more FC I need, and that reads to me that I'm needing more chlorine in the pool - though a lower number for a given CYA level with an SWG than if I was doing...

As in my sig, pool is ~16.5Kgal, concrete / plaster (not sure how to tell the difference, or if it matters...) Sand filter, SWG, both of which are fairly new, and I'm still learning my way around them... Swimmer load is fairly low (Me a few times a week) but I get a lot of plant debris, and an...