See the post in the thread
Chlorine Odor Question. You need to get out of your head that chlorine has no smell. Of course it does. When you smell concentrated bleach or chlorinating liquid you are smelling chlorine, not chloramines or Combined Chlorine (CC). .
ah er, tis already out of my mind as I said
"I think I like the ideas of
2) as per chemgeek: there is a clean bleach smell vs CC smell; sometimes when air is heavy and I bend down to get a sample I get a whiff of bleach even tho cc0 and pool outdoors"
but not out of all minds as above I read
"fc has no smell but tc will stink you out of the POOL"
but odor post was interesting
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However, the above thresholds are for still water whereas churning the water to volatize the chlorine in the water can certainly get concentrations high enough in air that one can faintly smell the chlorine, mostly of hypochlorous acid.
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This business of "you can't smell chlorine" and "if you can smell chlorine, then it's really chloramine and you need to handle that in your pool" are extrapolated truths
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So too much chlorine isn't good either.
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Managing this using chlorine alone requires elevating the chlorine level at night when no one is in the pool
I think conclusion still holds, I should
1) cease mindlessly dumping a gal if fc low, be more precise, use PoolMath and then
2) add at night
thank you