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you really need to have bromine tabs in a dispenser if you don't want to add chlorine or mps every other day. with my 400 gal tub I go threw 1 tab in about a week. when I get down to a half tab I add another one. we pull the floater out when we use the tub and add a little chlorine to bump up...

Re: Shocking with bleach instead of MPS - Have a few questio I didn't know you could get a PH jump by adding chlorine to our bromine spa. I add 1-2 teaspoons of granular chlorine when we use the tub to give it a bump. but i'm always fighting PH and TA drop because of the bromine tabs. I use...

TA is way low so PH is way low. with the bromine tabs your going to have to add about 1 tbsp of baking soda a week to 10 days to keep TA and PH up. but after a month or two your TA could be good but ph low so you add soda ash to raise PH and not TA. for me it's like soda ash one week then...

run the jets to get the ph up since your TA is still too high. my tap water is 210 TA and it takes me about 2-4 hours of running the jets and adding acid to get the TA down to 60. add acid and run the jets with the air on until the ph comes back up to 7.8-8 then add more acid and wait for the...

. yes like said above the big thing is your ph. so you want your TA where you get a ph as close to 7.6 as you can. I find 60-65 is good for my spa but I also use bromine tabs that lower ph and ta over time. main thing is keep your ph as close to 7.6 as you can. ta 50+ ch 100+ I wish I had...

I use my spa a lot and I have a ozonator so what I need could be a lot different then what you need. but for me I add 1 tab at a time. when it gets down to a 1/2 tab I add another. so I have between 1/2 tab to 1.5 tabs in the floater. a tab seems to last about 10 days for me. you will have...

Re: When do you turn on your summer setting and when do you i'm in florida and my first tub I had from 2002-2012. we ran it at 102-104 year around. but that tub got hotter the longer you are in it. It was 105-106 when we would get out. i use to like it really hot, but the temp i can handle has...

it sound like you didn't add enough bromine granules when you got out after the 4 people and beer spill. it always takes a few days for the water to clear up after a problem. I wouldn't run the pumps non stop like you would a pool. add your bromine and run the pumps for 20-30 minutes, keep...

i ran accross this the other day but it is a 2008 hotsprings. they use a factory jumper to bypass the pressure switch if it test bad. so if you can't find a way to reset it maybe you can find a jumper block like used in the video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1MyHTTQ4ew

i have a bromine level of 6 this morning. i'm happy about that but my floater has a extra tab and is open twice as far as i normally have it. but atleast i did over treat to 60ppm this refill. thanks for the link.

it's solus brand. i woke up this morning and no bromine reading. i added some brominating granules and went to work. when i got home i still had a good reading. but it's crazy how much chlorine or bromine i go threw with a freash fill. after a few days all is good and all i need is 1...

update, i found out why i had no reading. i put metal-gon in before i add chlorine/bronide and on the bottle it says " application may deplete the bromine/chlorine level in your spa. i just did a refill since i had so much soap in the spa. i super shocked it before i empited it. i refilled the...

i read that post a long time ago to clean the pool filter. the bottle of eco soak said about the same thing. i don't think the filters are, they may be a thinner fabric. i leared my lesson, next time i'll rinse better and dunk them in a clean bucket of water.

i use the 3 step bromine system and my levels are fine. i only used water for the last 11 years on spa filters. but i do use cascade dishwasher detergent on the pool filters when needed. i was going to use cascade but didn't because i was worried about residue.

i was told the same thing at the spa store. they said i couldn't use chlorine in a bromine system. they also said i couldn't use chlorine to convert bromide to bromine. i pointed out that bromainating granules was 82% chlorine and the tablets had 29% available chlorine. they still insisted i...

Re: New spa, want to use bromine. What chemicals to have on EDIT, sorry just redead your first post. did you add 2 oz of 100% bromide granules and then actiivate it with bleach or brominating granules witch is bromide and chlorine mixed together? the ozonator isn't going to keep your...

i refilled the spa about a month ago and used eco spray filter cleaner. i rinsed well and filled the spa and it had a light green tint to it and i had some foam right off the bat. now i had waxed the spa and cleaned everything so i had no idea what it was making the green tint color and foam...

chem geek thanks for that info.

look up the part on line with you model number. there should be a pic of it. i looked for it but not sure if it was the right one. it showed a clear t pipe with a black flow switch with 2 wires coming out of it. but it shoud be on the 3/4 in hose that goes from your small 24/7 pump to your...

i had a reading of 5ppm yesterday before the wife when in the spa. she hit it with a tsp of granular chlorine even after i told her to use the bromine 1 step :hammer: anyways after i used the spa i used MPS. today i had a reading of 7ppm bromine so that's good. i just used the spa this...

with high bromine levels you can still get a true ph readming right? levels are about 24 for bromine or 11 for chlorine. but i'm guessing it chlorine since my ph reading is purple. i added metal out and i put in a anti scale stuff after it was filled and started to lower TA. added 2oz of...

that's what i thought. i'm shocking now to see what happens. but i do remember the last times after a freash fill and tried bromine. i had to use 4 pucks in the floater for about the first 2 weeks to keep the readings in the 4-8ppm range. then i only had 2 pucks in with it open the size of 1...

my bromine was 15 lastnight and it's now 5. i put 2 tspb of granular chlorine to see if i get the 6 ppm jump. it read 7.5 so i got a 2.5 ppm jump witch is about what i should get with a chlorine system. witch leads me to believe the only bromide in my tub is from my tablets and the 1 step...

update: i dumped another 2oz packet of bromide for another store in and nothing. i put in my floater with bromide tabs in the water return with the jets on. i also added about 1/8 cup of the 1 step bromine. i got a reading of 5ppm so i added another 1/6 of a cup of 1 step bromine and i'll...

i just flushed, cleaned and wax the spa. i filled it with water and got the TA from 220 to 80 and i added the Sodium Bromide 2oz package. i waited about a half hour with jets running and i added 2 tbs of granular chlorine. let it run about 15 minutes and had to close it up becasue of a storm. 3...

i just got this, i jumped in and i could hear it fizz like soda. i was getting a constant mist from it. we didn't have really much foam, maybe a 1/8 to 1/4 in of small fine foam. i used a pre filter on city water to fill it. my ch is in the low 200 so i added water from the water softer to the...

ya, i've been adding it every other day to keep my ta levels up. the drop test has really helped me to fine tune my bromin levels. it would be nice if they had one for the ph test too. it looks like i need a ta between 70-80. i might try borax soon

thanks, i just tested again, my ta is dropping like a rock, i'm losing about .1 ph a day and about 10 ta every 2 days. off thing is it seems to slow down the lower the TA is. 80 ta with a ph of 7.5 and it's 70 TA, ph 7.4, 2 day's later and then 60 TA with a ph of 7.2 then with ta between...

1, i just got my k-2106 test kit and i had a k-1004 test kit. both have the reading for bromine. now here is my problem. k-1004 with the color match gives me a reading of 4ppm bromine looking at the north sky standing in the shade. the k-2106 with the drop test give me 8.5 ppm bromine with the...

don't know what to say about it not draining. as for the other problem. you should trouble shoot the heater and small pump first. you should be able to do a ohms test on the heater and small pump. unplug them from the powerpack and use the ends of the plugs. i haven't tested that type of...