I suppose it would, though you would never want to add as much calcium chloride as it would take to run a SWG. The SWG just cares about the chloride, and doesn't really care what the other half is.
Thanks. I was curious because my salt reading went from 3500 to 3700 ppm and wondered if adding the cacl2 had an effect on that reading? I only added about 10 lbs. so I doubt that would move my reading 200 ppm?
If you are using the salt meter built into your SWG it's a conductivity meter. Adding the Calcium Chlrine will increase conductivity (as will adding any chemcal that dissociates into ions) so the 'salt' reading will rise. if you are doing a chemical test for chloride ions (such as the strips or the Taylor drop count test) then that will rise also since you have added chloride ions.
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