Hi im new here posting but read alot of you guys stuff and still trying to learn. My ? is i put my pool up and while waiting for my salt in pool to dissolve I got the dreaded green water since temp were near 100 when i got to put my pool up. Ok after fighting the green finally got my pool water to clear but still had some combined chlorine since I had a chlorine smell so I tried to super shock it last nite added 4lbs of tricolor hope that got me there to the breakpoint but I just have test strips and cheap drop kit from wally world (I know going to order Taylor kit but funds are low right now ) so not sure I hit the mark any ways I took my pool water to my local pool store and had them to analyze my water but was confused with the results my test strips about 11am this morn had my FC at over 10 my TC at over 10, cya 50ppm, alk @ 80ppm Ph around 7.8 ok now i took a sample to my pool store and here are my results. (took sample about 2:30 this evening to pool store)
FC 0.7ppm
TC 0.9ppm
CC 0.3PPM
PH 6.8
Hardness 130ppm
ALK 0ppm
CYA 10ppm
Copper 0.16ppm (salt gen has copper)
Iron 0.06ppm
Borate 80ppm
Salt 4000ppm (dont under stand this one since I added correct amount at startup and have pumped to waste several times look like it would be low ?)
would like to note that pool store uses a electronic water analyzer and prints results out of computer. My ? is if I should trust there results since I have such a big diffidence from my strips they did not try to sell me a bunch of stuff just some baking soda for my ph and alk
FC 0.7ppm
TC 0.9ppm
CC 0.3PPM
PH 6.8
Hardness 130ppm
ALK 0ppm
CYA 10ppm
Copper 0.16ppm (salt gen has copper)
Iron 0.06ppm
Borate 80ppm
Salt 4000ppm (dont under stand this one since I added correct amount at startup and have pumped to waste several times look like it would be low ?)
would like to note that pool store uses a electronic water analyzer and prints results out of computer. My ? is if I should trust there results since I have such a big diffidence from my strips they did not try to sell me a bunch of stuff just some baking soda for my ph and alk