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Ok what would you do?? I have a polaris 9650iQ SPORT purchased in 2019. It worked for three seasons and died. It had no power to it at all when put in the water and turned on. I replaced it, and stored it in my garage for a year, thinking I would repair and keep as a backup if it was cost...

My test results: pH 7.7 (Leslie says 7.5) CH 280 (matches Leslie) TA 85 (Leslie says 78 - they correct based on your cya level) CYA 60 (matches Leslie) FC 4 (Leslie says: Free 2.55 and Total 3.83 -- this gives me anxiety, but my test results are very reproducible - see CC below) CC less than...

Hi PoolGeniuses, Religious follower of the TFP methods here. I test at home almost daily with Taylor Kit. I maintain my Chlorine levels per TFP chart (where is the old chart? I liked being able to see the whole table - the updated page is too fancy for me). Every so often, I go into...

Hi all, I have an almost full gallon of 20% Baume muriatic acid that I want to get rid of. I don't have a safe place to store it, and if I leave it outside it will be buried in snow this winter (I'm in MA). I'm also worried my kids will find it. Can I neutralize it with Baking Soda? Can...

Thanks! This is helpful. Does the metal remover just add more phosphates though? I am willing to try removing them, but I feel like I have read that the Metal Magic breaks down into phosphonates... I don't know the biochemistry there and am curious -- sequestered metal bound to phosphate...

So when I do the pool store test, Iron tests as zero and copper at 0.2. But the Vitamin C does work to remove stains, and they are brown (not green), hence my conclusion that it is Iron. I may need to invest in the Taylor metal test but it is $$$. I don't know where the Iron comes from; I am...

My 30k gallon pebble-tec pool has nice clear water but I am constantly doing the dance between minimum FC levels, ph balance, and metal staining. I use Borates and the pH seems to hold steady at 7.6-7.7 (best I can tell - I find the Taylor color matching to be tricky, wish there was a better...

Hi all, I am having the pool closed Monday 11/1. 30k gallons, pebble tech, SWG. I am trying to optimize the chemistry before closing in hopes of keeping my pebble tech safe through a long, cold New England winter. The pool company will add algaecide and 4# of dichlor quick shock at the...

Thanks! I have studied the instructions and feel mostly ready! I do have a couple more questions.... 1.) My pool has a raised beam covered with a stone veneer over which the spa spills over. The bottom of the stone veneer sits just below the waterline, so the stones are partially submerged...

Hi all, I have a 3 year old Pebble Tec Pool and have been waiting all season for my pool guy to do a Jacks treatment on what I believe are Iron Stains. He is clearly not coming, so I think I need to do an AA treatment myself and then get the water rebalanced before closing in a few weeks (I'm...

Help -:) I have kept my water balanced, SWG running at 55%, Chlorine at ~4 and CYA ~70. I do have some Iron staining which I have not dealt with yet but am planning to treat. I had not been shocking the pool, since I thought with salt and minimal amounts of combined chlorine when tested, that...

So either liquid pool shock or regular bleach... whatever is cheaper and easier to find?

Thanks guys... Vitamin C will be here tomorrow and I will spot test. Question about the AA treatment... is it okay to add the AA then run pump, circulating water through the salt cell and the heater? I will turn SWG down to zero and heater off, but I don't know how to bypass them, so I assume...

Does anyone know what is in ProTeam Metal Magic Spot Chalk? I have some brown staining on my SWG PebbleTec pool... pool guy told me it was organic (from acorns), but no amount of shocking burns it off, and rubbing a chlorine puck on it does nothing. The ProTeam Metal Magic chalk rubbed on the...

High is 2750 rpm Low is 1750 rpm --They were both set by the pool company at the time of start up. I can adjust them in the iAquaLink app. If I turn the rpm way down to around 1,000 it slows the spillover to a trickle, and I have considered this to see if it would help the pH... however I am...