Can chlorine neutralizer have any negative effects on a swimming pool? Thanks for any help.
Sure you can do the tests. I know it seems complicated at first but once you get the kit in your hands and actually see how to do it, you'll get the hang of it. Here's what one member wrote on how to do the dilution to get an estimate of your chlorine level.ckf said:Do you think I can do all those dilutions/tests you listed above . . . seems awful complicated. Should I test the distilled water first to make sure there is no chlorine in it?
Also, don't worry about testing the distilled water. It won't have any chlorine in it.You can get an estimate of how high your chlorine is by diluting your sample with distilled water.
Use a measure like a shot glass and mix 1 part pool water and 1 part distilled water, test and multiply your test results by 2 (so if your test indicated 5 ppm then it's really about 10 ppm).
If that is still not high enough then mix 1 part pool water with 2 parts distilled water and multiply the results by 3.
If you need to go higher it's 1 part pool water and 3 parts distilled water and multiply by 4.
The highest I would try and go is 1 part pool water and 4 parts distilled water, multiply results by 5.
Because each dilution reduces the accuracy of the test so the higher dilution tests are more of an estimate of your chlorine.
PaulR said:Are you using the red-drops pH test? Don't rely on it when the FC is through the roof! That test becomes progressively less reliable as FC gets higher than 10ppm. You need to get the FC down first, before you can get a reliable pH value that way. (The red drops have an indicator called phenol red. Excessive chlorine will chemically convert this to chlorphenol red, which is also a pH indicator but for a much lower range--so the pH test will always appear to be super high, when it probably isn't.)
--paulr