SWG with large Spa, small pool

[Eldon]

I have an EasyTouch system with an IntelliChlor 20. After a week or so I pretty much have the pool taken care of, however, I'm having problems keeping chlorine in the spa. Reading the manual I found the following snippet.

Up/Down buttons: Set the chlorination output level for the spa water from 0 to 20%.
To prevent over chlorination of the spa, the EasyTouch system will automatically drop
the chlorine output levels to 1/20th of the current pool output when the spa is switched
on. For example, if the pool output level is set to 60%, when the spa is switched on,
the chlorination level is reduced to 3%

My pool is about 3900 gallons, and my spa is 600 gallons. Obviously, my spa isn't going to use 1/20th of the chlorine the pool uses. Am I reading this right that the easytouch is outsmarting itself, and if so, does anyone have any advice?

My pool stays happy at 12% to 15% on a pump run time of 11 hours, where the spa run time is 4 or 5 hours. I supposed I could run the pool at a much higher level for 2 or 3 hours. Thoughts?

-Eldon

 

[Bama Rambler]

I supposed I could run the pool at a much higher level for 2 or 3 hours.

That's exactly what I'd do. You're going to have to outsmart the EZ outsmarting itself.

 

[JasonLion]

Are your pool and spa connected? If they share water you don't need to do anything special as long as you don't use the spa for too many hours in a row (an hour or two is fine). The water will mix between the pool and spa balancing out any unevenness in the FC level.