Just installed Equipment...how’s this look?

3B,

My wife and I sailed aboard our sailboat for 9 months out of the year for 6 years. During that time we made all of our own water from sea water using a reverse osmosis unit. Typical quality was 200 ppm TDS. I had two learnings from this. First, my wife's sensitivity to salt threshold was way lower than mine. Other full-time live aboard sailors we met had the same observation. It ran about 300 ppm for her. For me it was about 600 ppm. WHO threshold for drinking water was 1100 ppm. Even with this in play my wife much prefers our salt pool to the taste of chlorine pool and the feel on her skin. Here's a potential path forward. Ask her to taste the water now after a good long swim. Then switch and do the same. Neither water is really good for drinking and the feel trumps the taste. You can even tell her that you will refill with fresh water she doesn't prefer salt. No need to buy the SWG 'till she prefers the salt. In the unlikely case she prefers no salt, all you're out is the cost of salt.

Interesting side note. After we finished sailing we both found we can't stand tap water (typically loaded with cc's) so we installed an under sink RO unit (typical tds is less than 20).

If all else fails after 25,000 miles at sea, I found flowers and diamonds can get me a lot farther than science.

I hope this helps.

Chris

3asyB said:

Yes, as soon as I “threw it out there” last night the reaction brought immediate regret, should’ve just made the switch.
Live and learn.
Another quick question, is scaling more prevalent in salt pools versus typical chlorine pools?

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Yeah, I agree, add small amounts at a time and the "feel" of the water can sell it better then any "argument", reasonable or not

As for scaling, here is some information Pool School - Scaling Short answer: It is more in relation to keeping your PH in balance

3asyB said:

Another quick question, is scaling more prevalent in salt pools versus typical chlorine pools?

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To avoid calcium scaling, you want to closely monitor and tweak your water chemistry to achieve a slightly negative CSI. You can read about CSI in the link posted by @splashpad. CSI is most effected by TA, pH, CH and salt levels. Any changes to these numbers will effect the CSI. Take a look at the Pool Math link in Splashpad's signature. I like this web-based version of pool math better than app. Play around with some of the parameters and you will see how the changes effect CSI. After entering all test results the CSI will be displayed towards the bottom of the box. Keep this number between 0 and -0.3 to avoid scaling. I know you have a ways to go before you have to worry about water chemistry, but you may want to study up a bit before you start your fill.

3asyB said:

New hurdle.

SO in a SWP once and couldn’t stand the taste. In her opinion, not a chance.

Yall have SO’s that don’t like the saltiness of the SWP, how did you address it?

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I can't taste it in my pool either - never had anyone comment one way or the other. I guess you could always approach it by asking salt or bleach - pick your poison

Get the SWG, keep the salt at the lower end of the range that makes it happy. Don’t get into details with your SO about what is operating. If she pushes tell her the alternative is disconnecting it and dumping bleach in the pool.

Would she rather swim in water with a bit of salt or jugs of bleach in it?

If she says it's too salty, go over to the equipment pad and turn off the SWG. Tell her you'll only run it when she is not in the pool.

PoolGate said:

If she says it's too salty, go over to the equipment pad and turn off the SWG. Tell her you'll only run it when she is not in the pool.

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funny, yet sad - ten bucks says it would probably work