OK, just bought eight bags of the Sure Soft 100% natural. They're goin' in right after lunch.
None of the "non-additive" softener salt products at Lowe's site purity percentages.
I couldn't even find percent numbers on Sure Soft's website. All they say is "No additives." The scary part, though, was this product, and all their other products
with additives, only list "Sodium Chloride" as the ingredient. So even the products with additives don't specify what additives. Guess I'll have to trust their "No Additives" claim.
Ironically, Lowe's Sure Soft Pool Salt, $2 more, has some sort of stain-fighting additive (also not listed in the ingredients). No thanks. Fill it with regular, please...
Unless somebody has any tips, I'm going to run the pump up to 2000 RPMs or so, cut open the bag, pour it out directly into the pool, walking along the coping of just the shallow end, then brush it around until it disappears. I figure dumping any into the deep end will just be that much harder to brush.
I'm stopping 1.5 bags short of what pool math is telling me (I accounted for the existing 300ppm). My IC40 wants 3200-3400. I was going to see how close to the bottom of that range I can get, allowing some room for the inevitable creep. I'll work my way up to that number after this first batch mixes in in a few days. I am planning to dump all 6.5 bags in at once,
then brush. Unless there's any danger in salt laying on the new pebble like that for 20 minutes or so.
I kinda want to see if less PPM will make the IC40 happy, just so I have that much farther to go before I have to exchange water, but I don't know if that would hurt the SWG's performance, or just keep it from firing. Any thoughts on that?