Hi folks,
I've been reading and learning a lot here already, and I've really enjoyed your discussion board.
I've had my pool for about 6 months. I had a bit of trouble getting the salt levels and SWG sorted out to begin with, but finally that seems to be working ok. Things seemed to roll along ok for a while, although I was adding acid, probably not regularly enough. Then I got to where my chlorine levels dropped, and I couldn't get them back up with the SWG. I supplemented with tablet chlorine and ran the pump longer, and it would come up but then drop down again.
I bought a taylor k-2006 test kit about a week ago. I've added a lot of CYA. The chlorine seems to be holding well now. I am surprised by how much acid I'm actually using now that I'm more closely monitoring and measuring. I'm also running my SWG at 50%. So, I want to talk about my water balance and acid usage. Also from what I've read, CO2 off gassing is an issue. I want to discuss this in context to my large rock water fall, flagstone stepped spillover spa and other water features.
My latest numbers:
FC 6
CC 0
PH 7.4
TA 90
CYA 55 (plus I added 2 pounds yesterday)
CH 260
Salt - it's been 3100-3300 hundred but today with rain this week, it's low 2900-3000
pool temp has been about 89 in the late afternoon, outside of all the clouds and rain last week.
In the last 7 days I added 1 gal 1pt of acid. It rained heavily two days, and one day the waterfall got a lot of use.
So my question is first on chlorine, I assume based upon what I've read that I'll shoot for 70-80 on CYA and see what this does for my 50% output on the SWG. I suspect lowering that may improve my acid use. I'll just see what that does, and if it's not a good idea, rain and splash out here will probably bring it down soon enough. What ever there was at start up in January was completely gone just a couple of weeks ago.
I've read that lowering my alkalinity will help. Well, how low is low? What about the PH? What about CH? What should I be targeting here? What impact does my waterfall have on all this? If I'm constantly fighting a rising PH, and I'm also running that big waterfall shouldn't I continue to expect to fight falling alkalinity as well? It's dropped from 110 to 90 in the last week with rain and one good day of running the waterfall.
I've been reading and learning a lot here already, and I've really enjoyed your discussion board.
I've had my pool for about 6 months. I had a bit of trouble getting the salt levels and SWG sorted out to begin with, but finally that seems to be working ok. Things seemed to roll along ok for a while, although I was adding acid, probably not regularly enough. Then I got to where my chlorine levels dropped, and I couldn't get them back up with the SWG. I supplemented with tablet chlorine and ran the pump longer, and it would come up but then drop down again.
I bought a taylor k-2006 test kit about a week ago. I've added a lot of CYA. The chlorine seems to be holding well now. I am surprised by how much acid I'm actually using now that I'm more closely monitoring and measuring. I'm also running my SWG at 50%. So, I want to talk about my water balance and acid usage. Also from what I've read, CO2 off gassing is an issue. I want to discuss this in context to my large rock water fall, flagstone stepped spillover spa and other water features.
My latest numbers:
FC 6
CC 0
PH 7.4
TA 90
CYA 55 (plus I added 2 pounds yesterday)
CH 260
Salt - it's been 3100-3300 hundred but today with rain this week, it's low 2900-3000
pool temp has been about 89 in the late afternoon, outside of all the clouds and rain last week.
In the last 7 days I added 1 gal 1pt of acid. It rained heavily two days, and one day the waterfall got a lot of use.
So my question is first on chlorine, I assume based upon what I've read that I'll shoot for 70-80 on CYA and see what this does for my 50% output on the SWG. I suspect lowering that may improve my acid use. I'll just see what that does, and if it's not a good idea, rain and splash out here will probably bring it down soon enough. What ever there was at start up in January was completely gone just a couple of weeks ago.
I've read that lowering my alkalinity will help. Well, how low is low? What about the PH? What about CH? What should I be targeting here? What impact does my waterfall have on all this? If I'm constantly fighting a rising PH, and I'm also running that big waterfall shouldn't I continue to expect to fight falling alkalinity as well? It's dropped from 110 to 90 in the last week with rain and one good day of running the waterfall.