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According to my 3 year old, we have adopted Shelly.

Let us know when you've figured out how to have Mr. Fusion power your pump...

I'll keep an eye on CSI. Think I set up the link correctly. Thanks again!

Thanks for the guidance. I'll leave it be and let let it increase when the summer evaporation and refill hits.

After testing this morning, my CH is 175, pH is 7.7 and TA is 120

I have started using poolmath, I didn't know about the link capability. Thanks for the tip!

I will test the fill water this weekend, didn't think to test for exact numbers; I just figured it was 'higher'. It depends on how close the color is when I add the last drop. Sometimes I count it if was more solid of a color and don't if the test water is just a hue off.

Haha. In building there always seems to be a way to find a workaround to a problem.

I was going to shoot for 250, figuring the PHX tap water would take it from there. I was just afraid of the water taking calcium from the finish while I wait if I was a tad 'low'. My home has a soft water loop, but the builder didn't have it as an option to pull from the loop vs hose bib for the...

A question for my fellow desert rats, what do you use for calcium chloride in a place where snow is a tad scarce in order to increase calcium hardness? I haven't seen something like dowflake which is mostly all calcium chloride, which seems to be preferred reading some old posts, at homedepot or...

Quick maths seem like capital recovery is 3.5 years or so at current prices. Not terrible. I'll see what this year consumes and see if the family gets annoyed with me adding LC evey night, haha.

Yep, throw some pucks in, check every few days, here is a pool guy we partner with. Looking back I would trade some things in the build for automation and a SWG at the same price, but C'est la vie.

Ah, I think I added details to my profile but missed my signature. I hadn't really considered a SWG, the builder described them as an unnecessary luxury or option. I don't have automation, but will look into the RJ45+. There are alot of pages on SWG, I can add them to my reading list, haha. Thanks.

If this is normally I'll start trying to add some daily to see if I can get it in range when testing so I'm less reactive. Thanks!

Wow! That's like 40oz of chlorine a day come summer! I suppose I'll know my local walmart garden center folks we'll. Haha. Thanks I'll start trying to add more frequently to maintain the higher level. By comparison this is a pretty small amount it seems.

I'm about 4 or so weeks into using a good test kit and my chlorine consumption seems higher then I would expect. The pool and spa have a bubble cover but we still use the attached spa once or twice a week. I'm testing every 3 days and over the course of a week the FC will fall from about 6.5 to...

Compete with low mileage toddler 2 door coupe. We built the pool, the in-laws are supposed to build the pizza oven and firepit down the street.

That's a good read, thank you!

I'm still in the first few months of owning and maintaining a pool. I just got the TFPRO kit and after about an hour of reading everything 3 times to double check, I am pretty confident in my results. The levels seem pretty healthy, the water clear; but I'm starting to see these deposits just...

By using the data read out on the app. I waited several minutes between speed changes before recording the values.

Sorry, answering a few questions all at once. The CYA is sitting around 25-30. The pool is covered with a bubble cover 98% of the time and we are only using the spa a few times a week. I'm still using the guess strips and every 2 weeks was going to Leslie's for a check and never doing what...

So my inner Engineer couldn't not do some testing with my pump to determine flow and power usage based on speed. I plotted it and calculated the most cost effective speed to run based on energy costs to turn over the entire pool. Please see attached. Is there any reason to not run for 7-8 hours...

Hello there! I'm Patrick, we just finished building our first pool in October in Phoenix. It is 18k gallons with a spa. I've taken it on myself to learn everything I can to keep the pool clean and sparkling not only for the cost savings but it is honestly oddly fun. I have to get it right, my...