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Many thanks once more James. I'll do as you suggest, and not so patiently wait for all the bromide to be used-up. With the benefit of hindsight I should never have allowed the pool guy to convert our pool to his "special" chemical regime......that's substantially bromine.

With the chlorinator isolated due to manual addition of 3L hypochlorite, after running the pump/filter for 8 hours overnight the pool chemistry was total hardness 200ppm (calcium equiv), total chlorine 4ppm and total bromine therefore around 9ppm, free chlorine 3ppm, pH 8.5 (before adding acid)...

Thanks James, You may remember from my previous posts that I'm trying to convert my bromine pool back to chlorine, and I understand that until all the bromide is "lost" that added chlorine will be consumed. My question relates to your suggested addition of iso-cyanuric acid, where even though I...

I'm back......... The chlorine that I'm adding to my pool is still being consumed by the oxidisation of bromide to bromine; 4ppm in the early evening is down to <1ppm by morning. I can live with that for the time being, but as I'm concurrently trying to keep the pH at around 7.8, I added some...

Many thanks!

Don't know, as a contractor who sells a "better chemical regime" added chemicals while I was absent. I've since found out that his cocktail involves sodium bromide, together with magnesium, boric acid, and zinc. Right now, in the middle of a 40 deg day, the pool water is crystal clear and tests...

Many thanks everyone, and YES you're right James, I got the chlorine:bromine ratio the wrong way around. Right now a total chlorine reading of 2ppm in the early evening and with chlorinator / pump / filter then running for 8 hours is totally consumed by the oxidization process by next morning...

Threads Merged After adding bromine to my saltwater inground pool (65,000L) 3 months ago, I've had several bad experiences, and so have decided to move back to chlorine as a sanitisation agent WITHOUT DRAINING / REFILLING THE POOL. My plan to add chlorine via my Saltmate Chlorinator, and to...

Dave, I just checked with Saltmate, and there's no compatibility issues with their products in bromine sanitised pools provided salt is still present at required concentrations.

Thanks Dave, and no I didn't check the compatibility of the Saltmate unit, but now will. Still looking for responses re the main issue in my post, so feel free to move it to another Forum if necessary.

Hello all, I've recently converted our saltwater in-ground pool (pebble surfaces) from chlorine to bromine. After experiencing some water quality problems with algal growth, I added sufficient sodium hypocrite to raise the total chlorine to 5ppm. That should have activated some of the stored...