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    Added Yellow Blaster Sodium Bromide to my pool, now I’m worried.

    I just added about 8oz of this stuff, Sodium Bromide, 99% to my chlorine pool. Recommended by a pool store. I fell for it and put it in my pool. Now I’m worried that my pool is going to be a bromine pool. Is there any way to tell how much bromine I added to my pool if I added 8 oz of this...
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    LED Waterfall wiring

    This is not my pool but my brothers pool. He seems to have lost the manual for the LED waterfalls. The builder left them unwired and now we are trying to hook them up. We are wondering if anyone happens to recognize this type of unit and know where we could pull a manual for it. We are not...
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    Slam questions

    I started the SLAM process Monday night. I've been going almost 7 days now. The Green cloudy Algee is gone and the pool looks and smells a lot cleaner. How ever the water is still really cloudy. The pool store suggested I add a non chlorine shock and that will help clear the Algee. It is a...
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    SLAMing Pool and may have double dosed the Chlorine.

    Is there any harm in Double Dosing the pool while slamming. I was shooting for 18 FC and ended up at about 40. CYA Level is about 40.
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    CYA level Chlorine burn off.

    I have an 18 ft diameter round pool. I noticed recently that throughout the night I don't lose any chlorine but in the day I lose almost all chlorine. My CYA level is 20, I was slamming at 10 ppm chlorine. Seems by mid day noon there was only 2 ppm chlorine in the pool when there was about 12...
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    Want to use the Lil Rebel, not sure if my pump is big enough.

    I have an 18 ft round above ground pool. I was looking for a cleaner to use in it. I saw the Lil Rebel. I am using the standard pump, SFX1000, 0.16 hp, 1000GPH. I can't find anywhere how big the pump should be for proper useage of the cleaner. Any advise on this one TFP? Currently it is super...
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    Pool Turned Green even with Chlorine?

    Is it possible for your pool to turn green even when maintaining the appropriate FC to CYA? Prior to Shocking FC 7 CC < .5 PH 7.5 TA 100 CH 200 CYA: 40 TEMP 90 F After Shocking FC is about 23.
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    Question about CYA and FCC relationship.

    How come chlorine / other pool care productions don't mention the CYA FCC relationship? Where can I go to learn more about this relationship? Pool a supply stores never mentioned this either?
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    reccomendation to balance salt water pool

    CYA: 90 FC: 7.5 PH: 7.6 CC: .5 TA: 200 CH: 725 Tested with Taylor K2006. I just went up to my moms house for the weekend. She has a pool man that does her pool. I brought my test kit to see how good he is doing. :) I am curious are these numbers bad for a saltwater gunite / plaster pool with...
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    Accidentally added acid with a PH reading when FC is 20+

    FC - Free Chlorine - 22.5 CC - Combined Chlorine - < .5 pH - 8.0 TA - Total Alkalinity - 140 CH - Calcium Hardness - 220 CYA - Cyanuric Acid (stabilizer) - 40 First off I just want to say TFP has saved me a lot of headaches and money from the pool stores. Thank you for all the information...