Bit of a mystery here.
I had a brand new Raypak heater installed last thursday.
Added 4ppm of chlorine (unscented regular bleach) on saturday
and ran the pump all day with the suction robot to clean the pool.
This was the first addition of chlorine since last november.
I am on city water, not well. The pool was fresh filled october 2015.
I have never seen the water turn green before when adding chlorine.
There is dilution by rain water that I have drained down a few times
to keep the water at the correct level.
I solely practice the tfp way (since 2014) and have never added any algecides
or potions to this water. Just bleach, washing soda, baking soda and cya.
I'm having a hard time believing it's metals from the city water, as that
would have turned green during the fresh fill. And as mentioned above, i went
and entire year plus without this happening.
The heater is a new variable, i did not opt for the cupro nickel exchanger
so I have whatever is standard. PH is good so I don't think copper from
the new heater was leaching off, if thats a thing.
Part of me wants to let the poolco that installed the heater know, but
I don't want them dumping potions in the water or potentially making
things worse.
Do new heaters have residual chemicals from manufacturing that may have caused this?
There was a thread where someone said they had this happen to them 3
years in a row out of nowhere (getting slightly green after first year chlorine addition)
but that it went away after a few weeks and their metal test came up as zero.
Any of you experienced this?
Here are my current TF-100 test results:
water temp: 44 degrees
FC: 4.0
CC: 0.5
PH: 7.5
TA: 60
CH: 150
CYA: not registering (i lose it this time of year due to rain fills/drain downs dilution)
Any suggestions much appreciated.
I had a brand new Raypak heater installed last thursday.
Added 4ppm of chlorine (unscented regular bleach) on saturday
and ran the pump all day with the suction robot to clean the pool.
This was the first addition of chlorine since last november.
I am on city water, not well. The pool was fresh filled october 2015.
I have never seen the water turn green before when adding chlorine.
There is dilution by rain water that I have drained down a few times
to keep the water at the correct level.
I solely practice the tfp way (since 2014) and have never added any algecides
or potions to this water. Just bleach, washing soda, baking soda and cya.
I'm having a hard time believing it's metals from the city water, as that
would have turned green during the fresh fill. And as mentioned above, i went
and entire year plus without this happening.
The heater is a new variable, i did not opt for the cupro nickel exchanger
so I have whatever is standard. PH is good so I don't think copper from
the new heater was leaching off, if thats a thing.
Part of me wants to let the poolco that installed the heater know, but
I don't want them dumping potions in the water or potentially making
things worse.
Do new heaters have residual chemicals from manufacturing that may have caused this?
There was a thread where someone said they had this happen to them 3
years in a row out of nowhere (getting slightly green after first year chlorine addition)
but that it went away after a few weeks and their metal test came up as zero.
Any of you experienced this?
Here are my current TF-100 test results:
water temp: 44 degrees
FC: 4.0
CC: 0.5
PH: 7.5
TA: 60
CH: 150
CYA: not registering (i lose it this time of year due to rain fills/drain downs dilution)
Any suggestions much appreciated.