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    Tftest kits smart stir buttons no worky

    Anyone else suddenly have the buttons act like momentary buttons instead of on/off? My smart stir only works if I continuously press and hold the buttons now First it completely stopped working, installed new batteries and still didn’t work. Tried it 2 days later and now it only works by...
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    First time balancing CYA

    First season using liquid chlorine so normally my cya would be high using chlorine pucks I’m using the tf100 test kit and when doing the cya test the black dot is only JUST becoming slightly “cloudy” when the test tube is filled the entire way So, my question is when I’m using the trouble free...
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    Just got my tf100 test kit and can’t discern chlorine colors

    So I literally just got my TF 100 test kit delivered today opened it up read the instructions to do the chlorine test but I find it absolutely impossible to tell the differences in the different gradient colors of yellow my eyes must be terrible maybe I don’t know but I certainly can’t tell...
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    Aeration- KISS or better adapters?

    KISS (keep it simple stupid ?) and just aim my return jet up to break the water surface? Or does it work better/faster to raise ph with a fountain hooked up to jet or perhaps some sort of other fancy fangle device that I am not aware of? curretnly working on lowering TA with muratic acid, so...
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    question on pool math program- chlorine selections

    Ok, I'll preface this by saying that I've been a chlorine "puck" user for 10 years, so I have no clue where to begin switching over to using liquid chlorine. currently I am still waiting for my Chlorine levels to come down and I want to be prepared in knowing how to properly dose liquid chlorine...
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    tough week of crash course learning about water testing here

    I'll try and keep this as short as I can. july 3rd my 15k above ground started getting cloudy on me, my liquid test kit was telling me my FC was "decent" at or about 4ppm- I only have a inexpesive pool master brand 5 way test kit, so I was only monitoring FC and Ph. somehow I've skated by for...