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Hello, Past few years I have been using salt test strips. I prefer to test often but not many come in the jar and they aren't cheap so I am looking at alternatives. I see TF Test Kits now has two alternatives, the salt test kit and test meter. How many tests can I get out of the test kit before...

I added a salt water pool last summer in central Florida. Due to work/travel schedules, I had a company handling pool maintenance. I am looking to take it over myself at this point. I took my first reading using the Taylor K-2006C kit and input to the Pool Math app (pic attached). Doing some...

I’ve been noticing more and more quarter sized stains in pool recently (pics attached). They’re raised when I touch although I can’t easily scrape the material off. I have a SWG. Is it salt building up? What could the cause and remedy be?

I’ve loved my SWG over the past few years. Even with having to add salt and clean the cell every few months, it’s so much easier than dealing with buying, transporting, storing and deploying liquid chlorine constantly. But a recent salt-stain event had me questioning the SWG if there is iron...

So I have a new plaster pool. I have been struggling to keep my chemistry in check. Mainly Salt, Calcium, Cyanuric Acid. So I thought that perhaps I had a leak. But then it occured to me that we have been having lots of rain. There is an overflow drain for the pool. So when it rains a lot...

Hi - I have a brand new semi inground pool (15k gallons) - that uses chlorine and has an ionizer (came with the pool). I returned from work today to learn the pool maintenance crew added two 40 lb bags of salt to the pool! I’m waiting to hear back from them as to why, but I’m assuming they...

I have a regular back yard pool that I maintain with liquid chlorine as per the TFP method, keeping CYA at about 50. It is not a salt water pool. I know that liquid chlorine has some salt in it, and we live in Arizona, so chlorine consumption gets high in the Summer, however just 2 years after...

I may be overthinking this, but I'm wondering what to do if you need more pump run time for the heater than you do for the SWG? Without over-chlorinating our pool? I'm thinking with how small ours is (1,600 gal), the pump may need to run a lot longer to heat in the cooler months than what is...

I am trying to figure out a couple of things. I have added 70 ounces of CYA over the past 2 weeks, and it only raised by 10ppm. Over that same period, my salt reading has gone up by 400ppm without adding any Salt. I have tested these numbers several times in the same sample to confirm. EDIT: I...

Hello! We are currently building a small 1,600 gallon (not 16k!) pool/hot tub (no jets) & trying to decide on a Salt system that works for this "in-between" size where there isn't much info. The husband wants an in-line system (versus drape over). We also plan to use it at varying temps...

How do you guys have your Salt system set up? I have that yellow dial with pins to turn on and off the Salt system, but since we installed the iAquaLink system, I don't use the pins anymore and the TrueClear when the pump is running it is chlorinating and when the pump is off it shows Standby...

I noticed my pool this morning was starting turn green after being away on vacation. Checked the Hayward OmniLogic screen and my average salt reading is 65,486ppm and instant 65,475ppm (obviously both in accurate). My question is has anyone had this happen? If so did it indicate a bad cell or...

We have a 24x12x52 Intext pool 8 years old with a salt water system. Been through two salt water systems and NOW all of the sudden the power is on but nothig happens when you try to get the pump working. No humming Nothing! It must be a simple electrical fix which I know nothig about. I took the...

My signature has most of the important stuff, but today I bought: Pentair 520554 SWG IC20 Pentair 520556 IntelliChlor Controller Pentair 520670 IntelliChlor Acid Cleaning Kit and from reading, I also bought a Pentair 350122 Comm Cable for my Pentair Intelliflow VS Pump to talk to the...

I purchased a Circupool salt system for my parent's pool. Before installing I wanted to test the pool's salt baseline so I ordered the TAYLOR K-1766 SALT TEST KIT. To my surprise the pool's apparent baseline is 2800ppm for sodium chloride. Is that normal for a non-salt water pool? It took 14...

I've been using Taylor's testkit for years and when checking FC before converting to a SWG pool the color would change quickly to pink to indicate chlorine. However, I just converted to a SWG and noticed that using the Taylor DPD reagent (R-0870) doesn't turn pink as quickly as it did before it...

Hi. Just a silly detail question. Usually the Taylor salt test is unambiguous: from yellow to obviously orange in one drop. This time was a bit different. The 16th drop caused a just barely noticeable orangish tinge. Then the 17th was all in: dark and obvious. The Taylor instructions are a...

This is our first year opening our pool and testing the water/maintaining it. We were built last year, and completed around early/mid August so we didn't have much to maintain before the pool builder closed us up. The pool builder "opened" by checking the system, cleaning the auto-cover, and...

Basically my old pump recently died. Been looking at the Hayward MaxFlo VS 1.65HP vs the Pentair SuperFlo VS Been a long time since my last post. Will try to find my signature with my equipment. But basically I have a ~16,000 gal salt water in ground pool. Any help/recommendations would be...

Man, this new pool is beautiful with crystal clear water! Installed early February, pool company cleaned it all out after concrete deck poured, etc. They had 3 chlorine tabs in a bobber which is long gone, put the proper amount of salt in about a month ago and fired up the SWG. All looks great...

We just had our SWG start up last week for my 10,000 gallon pool. The pool builder company came and added salt. I just did my first salt test (Taylor TF-100 salt kit) and it’s showing 4400ppm. Too high I know, but is it dangerously high? Will this go down over time? Here are my readings: Ph 7.6...

The pool servicer came yesterday to do the startup for salt. How long does it take for it to start producing chlorine? I tested today (24 hours later) and had 0 FC. Do I need to supplement with liquid chlorine right now until the SWG catches up and is producing enough?

Hi all, we are about 10 months into our 1st pool. I am trying to figure out which salt level result to trust more. Table below shows results from the TFT salt test (chromium/silver nitrate) and the SWG reading (pentair intellichlor-40) using the reading taken at same time as water sample for...

Hi all, Pool recently installed (deck currently being built). No pool school yet (although I’ve owned a pool before) so pool company has been managing water once a week. Today they came round and I noticed after they had left, that they had removed the chlorine tablets from the floater and had...

Above ground pool, installed mid last year. Intex pump/chlorinator. This seems to be a trend even from the start of installation… there are 2 chlorinator plugs going into the water flow (1 reg, 1 boost)… i always seem to loose chlorine over a week or two when the system is in auto mode (no...

Newbie here. For a while my relatively new Pentair IC40 has been flashing that the salt level is too high. I have done multiple tests: - IC40 diagnostics says 4800ppm - Saline Aquacheck says about 4300ppm - New salt meter says 4500ppm (it also says TDS is about the same, which seems strange) I...

Hello! Any advise on how to effectively clean tile’s stains? I have a 16 gl Salt pool. Stains are only present i the tiles around the spillover area (rocks). Hopefully you can see my attached pics. Thank you in advance!

I recently filled a pool and have been trying all week to balance the chemistry. I make my own daily tests with a Taylor FAS-DPD kit and I confirm my test results by taking water samples to Leslie's. I have managed to get all the chemistry within recommended range except for pH and Total...

Hi all! Like many of you, I’ve decided to add a SWG to minimize storage of chemicals, save some money and time. In preparation, I balanced the chemicals to ideal levels FC: 5.5, CYA: 50, pH: 7.4, TA: 60, CH: 550, water temp: 76. Then I added Boric acid last night following the method exactly on...

Hey group. New pool owner. PB finished our new Fiberglass Pool 35x16 and I want to make sure to get the chemistry right. 10,100 gallon pool. Salt Cell Ichlor30. 1.5 variable speed pump. 200 BTU heater. Ordered by Taylor Test kit and performed my first tests. Readings are as follows. Salt...