Recent content by SolarDave

Read a number of threads regarding SWG and the water chemistry recommendations here at Water Balance for SWGs - Trouble Free Pool and I guess I just need to figure out the right generator for my pool at this point. Any master thread that discusses this or obvious recommendations?

Checked my salt with my Taylor kit last night and came up with 14 drops of silver nitrate to get the “milky salmon” color change so that’s saying I’ve already got 2800 PPM of salt in there! It’s entirely possible I’ve used a little more chlorine than I’d estimated since start up three years ago...

The point regarding my pool effectively already being a salt pool is probably pretty close. I’d estimate I have to add 2 PPM of chlorine per day during the pool season (April through the end of October roughly) so that’s over 400 PPM for three years plus the off season addition which is probably...

It’s likely I average CYA in the ~20-30 range over the long term as I aim for 30-40 when I add it to the skimmer and once there I may not test it for a month or so. My pool could likely tolerate some extra stabilizer from the 3” tabs before it would build up to any level of real concern if using...

Calcium isn’t something I regularly test for since I’ve never used shock in my pool. I usually test it at the beginning of the season just to have a baseline for the chemical calculations. I’ll check my log and probably give it another test. pH, chlorine get tested anytime I open the pool and...

That’s really close to what I was thinking I might do, down to using an old LC container!

I've been a liquid chlorine user from day one of our pool commissioning about three years ago whether it be from Home Depot, Walmart, my pool contractor or a local pool cleaner guy who sold from his supply on the side. This time of year up here in the upper Mojave Desert it takes about 1/2 - 1...