Thanks! I did one round yesterday and added 24 oz. of dry acid to bring the pH down to 7.2. At those calculations, I was expecting this lowering TA to take quite some time, but this morning's results indicate it may not be as much as the calculator predicted and as I thought! (what else lowers TA naturally, cause I had a good drop with this AM's test!) As of this morning, pH is still only up to 7.5, so I'll try once more today after some more aerating. We've suddenly gotten October like weather here in PA, and they're calling for rain today, so that should help bring the pH back up a little faster, too, right?
The SWG is functioning, a little too well. After testing last night, I dropped the output from 50% to 30% because the FC had gotten up to 5.5. Was still 5.5 this morning (which is a good thing, I know, but I'd like to try to maintain 3-4) so I dropped down to 20% and will check again later. I considered shutting it down because there's no sun today, yet anyway, but I really want to dial it in properly (but can I do that with little sun and no one will be getting in that cold pool today - temp is down to 74) Yesterday, I just ran the pump for a solid 12 hours but can't wait to actually use the timer to do 8 hours split to twice a day.
This morning's results, for those that enjoy:
FC = 5.5
CC - 0
pH - 7.5
TA - 190 (!!! moving in the right direction, even if I don't understand how!)
This weather is discouraging, and I'm thinking that when I finally get this thing all balanced, it will be time to close for winter! Story of our lives though... bought a snow blower 2 years ago, and the most snow we've had at once since is 6". Same thing with a generator... we were losing power once a week (lots of trees around the power lines here), and since we've had it - we lost power long enough for it to kick on once for 2 hours.