I guess I never got around to registering on the forums. I have used this site off and on for the past 4 or 5 years. I use to have a summer escapes pool (about 15ft and 3.5ft tall or there abouts). It was the standard out of the box set up and I feel I have become an old hand at running a cartridge and chlorine based pool. I moved across the country and back to my home state of Louisiana. I was one of the ones that got flood last summer so I decided to ditch the old pool and start new. This time I have a 15x48 Intex pool with the combo sand filter and salt water pump. I was surprised at how many bags of salt it took to get started and how many bags of sand actually fit in the filter.
I have finally figured out how to program the pump and turn the salt water converter on, yes I ran it for almost a full 24 hours before turning on the salt water converter because I thought it turned on when the pump turned on... So I have been testing the pool daily until the numbers get where I want them. Being in the south the water here is extremely soft. I read somewhere that for the vinyl liner pools that it shouldn't matter. Is this true or should I raise the hardness up to around 200? Also my CYA is lowering and I thought once added, it stayed in the pool. I added half a gallon of liquid stabilizer to the pool yesterday (the bottle said to add the whole bottem to a 10,000 gallon pool and my pool is approximately 5,000 gallons). When I tested the water yesterday, the CYA was perfect. Today it was back to 0. I have never had CYA drop before with the old pool.
Thanks for any help
I have finally figured out how to program the pump and turn the salt water converter on, yes I ran it for almost a full 24 hours before turning on the salt water converter because I thought it turned on when the pump turned on... So I have been testing the pool daily until the numbers get where I want them. Being in the south the water here is extremely soft. I read somewhere that for the vinyl liner pools that it shouldn't matter. Is this true or should I raise the hardness up to around 200? Also my CYA is lowering and I thought once added, it stayed in the pool. I added half a gallon of liquid stabilizer to the pool yesterday (the bottle said to add the whole bottem to a 10,000 gallon pool and my pool is approximately 5,000 gallons). When I tested the water yesterday, the CYA was perfect. Today it was back to 0. I have never had CYA drop before with the old pool.
Thanks for any help