- May 19, 2011
- 66
- Pool Size
- 13500
- Surface
- Vinyl
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Hayward Aqua Rite (T-15)
Ok, So I haven’t been as vigilant as I usually am on checking my readings because of the colder than usual winter or weather we have had here in South Texas. But all has been good... I still have a sparkling clean pool and all my readings have been good for the most part... I haven’t checked my CYA or Salt in a while somewhere like 4+ months I always had my CYA at 80 and like 3 to 4 months ago give or take, I checked it and I was at 70 well the day before yesterday I checked it and I was at 40 according to my readings...Now grant it we have had some big down pours and I have vacuumed the pool and even backwashed a few times plus had to top off the pool quite a few times... Yes We have had wierd weather down here. It can go from overcast muggy and drizzly 30’s to sun shining bright and hot such a beautiful day 80’s over night and so on and so fourth... So anyways my CYA jumping down to 40 raised a RED FLAG!!! So I was figuring maybe my reagents were going bad so I decided to do something that I NEVER EVER DO... I took a sample of my water to the pool store to get a 2nd opinion (Leslie’s Pool Supplies) Well after having my numbers and them testing and comparing to their numbers to mine I was surprised to see that we weren’t that far off... all of our numbers matched except CYA and Salt... (I’ll post pictures of our readings if y’all want) But on my CYA Test I read 40ppm and Leslie’s Read 50ppm not to far off... That should be an easy fix being that I could add a little at a time and test to see where it goes... On my salt Test I read 3400ppm and Leslie’s read 3000ppm and I’m not sure what the device they used to check that is called... But I used the Taylor Sodium Chloride K-1766 kit so I am curious as to if I should add salt? My SWG is showing 2800ppm but I’m guessing it could be due to the age of the cell or the temp of the water so I have 3 different readings and don’t know which to believe... Also if my CYA dropped so much my salt should have also right? [emoji848] Anyways if anyone has any input I’d love to hear it... Thanks All...