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    Pump broken pool cloudy

    Hi I broke my solar pump last April and till December I kept the pool clean with liquid chlorine and Cya at 30 and everything was ok than I left home for a1 month and my wife used only tablets and CYA went up to 80 and pool got cloudy So when I got back home I drained the pool refill it with...
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    wait after add soda

    How long i have to wait after i added bakingsoda to rise Ph levels to test ph again?
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    Slam the pool twice in 2 weeks

    Hi, i had cloudy water and so i SLAM the pool with CYA at 40 and Ph at 7.2-7.4 with chlorine up to 25FC for 3 days(i slam at 25 becouse i have a solar pump so during SLAM it can works only during the day about 11 hours only) and the water got super clear and clean but after 10 days got...
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    How long a cartridge last? I have a Hayward. C150S

    After 2 years my filter get dirty very fast usually i clean the cartridge once a month but now after a week the pressure get to 22 25 psi.
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    testing FC with K1001 is 5PPM but with K2006 ( 0870-0871) is 18 PPM, CYA 35

    i tested FC for 1 month with K1001 and the color result was always around 5ppm, but when i finally could buy new R-0870 and the big bottle of R-0871 , i added water to 10 ml mark and put 1 big dipper of 0870 and than i had to add 36 drops of R-0871 to get colorless ,doing the math i...
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    Triton Maytronics robot can't work with FC level over 4ppm?

    Manual of instruction of the triton say don't use it with FC over 4ppm, but with CYA at 40 i keep the FC level at 7 ppm , minimum 5ppm ....any advice?
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    when can i swim after slam ?

    I had to slam the pool with no proper FC test kit and with only 10 hours solar per day pump running .....i know that is bad but tropical storm is coming and i had to do a SLAM for algaes and becouse the virus lockdown i finished my 0871 taylor reagent k2006 for FC levels ,i have only k1001...
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    10 minuts wait before test FC?

    After adding liquid chlorine 12% ,how long should i wait before testing?
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    How can i test the % of liquid chlorine?

    I bought liquid chlorine at 12% from the poolstore but seems like is only at 6% i usually add 1liter of liquid chlorine at 12% in my pool to raise FC level from 0 ppm to 6 ppm with CYA 50-60 but the last bucket i got adding 1 liter FC level raise from 0 ppm to 3 ppm , is there a test i...
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    HOW TO SLAM THE POOL WITH SOLAR PUMP

    Hi, i add 7PPM(1.3 lt) of liquid chlorine 12% every day with CYA at 60% and ph at 7.4 ,(4-5 people swimm and play in the pool and a lot of organic fall in the pool every day ) and in the morning FC level is 0PPM ,tropical hot costarica weather. my pool is 1 year old and i never did a slam ...
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    K0006 chlorine testing problems

    CC TEST Added 2 dippers of 0870 in the 10ml sample of the large comparator,than added 4 drops of 0871 till colorless( 4drops x 0.5 =2ppm) , but after 40 second the sample's water got pink again so i added other 2 drops till color less but than after 40 seconds got pink again ,lighter than...
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    Solar panel pump run only 12h in case of slam

    Hi, i have solar panel pump and if i want to slam the pool ,the pump have to run for 24h , but mine of course works only 12hours a day if is full sun (costarica) and just 8 h when is cloudy ....i'm worry the slam won't work well couse the short time the pump run ...any tip ?
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    CYA level increasing to 100 without add any ,why ?

    I have a new pool in costarica , i raised the CYA levels from 0 to 30 adding CYA ,only once at the beginning ,now after 5 months CYA level increased till 100 ...but i didn't put any more in the pool ...