I finally got my SWG up and running now battling what percent to set it to. I know with an autocover, the percent should be set lower. So seeing if anyone has a good gameplan that works for them. Thanks!
SWG with an autocover
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They have different demand than you do.
Fool around with yours at 10 FC and not 3 FC. If you're over producing, dial it down. If the FC is dropping, bump the % and/or runtime. Start with producing 1 FC a day (covered) and go from there.
Go to the upper left menu in poolmath and select effects of adding. Fill out your info, select your SWG, then 'calculate FC' (or % or hours). You need the following 2 fields filled in whether it's hours or % or whatever.
Itll tell you that X hours at Y% makes Z FC. Or to get Z FC you need to run Y % for X hours. You can mess with them all and see how it all fits together.
You effectively have *2* pools. Covered and uncovered. You will need to learn how each responds, then run that day accordingly. Both ways will lose more daily as the season progresses. Then dialy demand will fall slowly for the back half of the season.
I've had an SWG with an autocover for ~7 years now, and I did not need to produce a lot of chlorine with it. The cell only runs overnight for ~4 hours with the floor cleaner and I am able to maintain ~3ppm with an hour open weekdays and 3 on the weekends on average. I was never able to fully set and forget, I just do weekly testing and then add/remove percent as needed to boost or let dissapate. With the IC60, about 20% is what it was set to.
With the autocover, it's important to open it up every few days for a bit to let the sun help burn off any accumulating CCs and gasses trapped under the cover. We do this normally year round as we don't close our pool down after swim season.
Maddie
Maddie
Do you completely close the cover or leave it open a bit at all times?With the autocover, it's important to open it up every few days for a bit to let the sun help burn off any accumulating CCs and gasses trapped under the cover. We do this normally year round as we don't close our pool down after swim season.
Maddie
One or the other- entirely open or closed, mostly for esthetics.
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