dmanb2b said:
Proteam "Shock" is just another chlorine source and has the draw back of either adding to much CH or CYA to your water, especially with the amount of chlorine needed for a conversion.
"Shock" is a marketing slogan for granulated chlorine.
pool-school/types_chlorine_pool
pool-school/shocking_your_pool
pool-school/baqua_chlorine_conversion
I'd start the BBB process now, during the conversion!
Just to echo what's already been said, plain 6% bleach is your best weapon in the conversion! It's available in the 184 ounce jugs at Wal-Mart (Good Value brand) for $2.54 and it works!
It's contents are, for all intents and purposes: 6% sodium hypochlorite (chlorine) and 94% salt-water: nothing that's bad!
The ProTeam "Quick Shock" is dichlor, which adds CYA as well as chlorine.
You don't want CYA in the water during the conversion. After the conversion, yes,
but not during the conversion.
The ProTeam "Power Magic" is cal-hypo, which adds calcium as well as chlorine.
The calcium doesn't do anything for you...
The ProTeam "Shock & Swim" is a non-chlorine version.
Not what you want at all!
The ProTeam "Lithium Shock" will do the job, but is much more expensive than bleach, especially for the quantity of hypochlorite (chlorine) that you will be using!
This is care of Chem-Geek...
For every 10 ppm Free Chlorine (FC) added by Trichlor, it also increases Cyanuric Acid (CYA) by 6 ppm.
For every 10 ppm FC added by Dichlor, it also increases CYA by 9 ppm.
For every 10 ppm FC added by Cal-Hypo, it also increases Calcium Hardness (CH) by at least 7 ppm.
We had a neighbor that did the conversion and went through 58 jugs of Wal-Mart bleach. They said that was the best investment in pool chemicals that they had ever made in their pool!
Terry in NC.