New to the forum and salt water pools. I have a very similar problem relative to this thread. Little background, 38k gal salt water pool. Owned for the last 7 months with no issues, gone to Leslie and let them do the analysis and did as proscribed. In the last few weeks two things happened and not sure if there is a correlation or not. The Jandy SWG started posting a general failure and we started to see white flakes. Cleaned the SWG per the Jandy website and that cleaned the elements up however the very next day same failure indicated. Both the Jandy rep and Leslie indicated that the problems were not related. So today replaced the Jandy SWG for the new model required re-plumbing of course. It seems to be working keeping my fingers crossed that it will continue. The original SWG was 4 years old and most folks I spoke with said that was a typical life span.
Now to the flakes all over the bottom of the pool and spa. Pool itself is very clear unless you stir up the flakes and then it looks like a snowglobe:
My current readings from Leslie are as follows:
FAC 2
TAC 2
Salt 3200
CH 200
CYA 40 (Leslie range indicates 30 -100 ppm as OK)
TA 160
pH 8
Acid 3
Copper 0
Iron 0
Phosphates 300 (Leslie range indicates Below 300 ppb as OK)
So they advised adding 1/2 gallon of Muriatic Acid which I have done due to the HIGH pH and TA. Also had me buy SCALETEC PLus for the calcium flakes. But this stuff seems to be for calcium stuck on the tile as the instructions on the bottle indicate to raise the water level to the top of the tile etc. have held off adding until I have done some more research and have heard opinions from the forum.
But on reading this thread, it would seem to me I should add more stabiliser (CYA). Any thoughts are greatly appreciated.
Also are there any Water testing equipment for the consumer that can feed into a PC for tracking purposes?
Thanks.
Lynn