I've been having a quandry with my salt pool's salt levels steadily rising without the addition of any exogenous salt by me. Testing is with the Taylor 1766 kit. Recently it was up to around 4400. I drained roughly 1/3 of the water, refilled, and it tested at 2800. It's been 4 weeks since then and it's now at 3200. A few items to consider in the mix: I live in SoCal where it's very hot and there's a lot of evaporation. Our fill water source is VERY hard and used to give me terrible scale on the pool and cell, so I put an exchange water softener on the inflow to take out some of the calcium. That works pretty well. I know that may add salt by exchange but I tested the softened infow water (300ppm) and non-softened inflow water (250-300ppm) so not too different per my test kits. I know this is not as precise as one might like but would the possibly slightly higher Na inflow of softened water significantly account for my real rising sodium levels? (say when the exchange tank is new and resin is full of salt). If I don't use the softener, calcium goes through the roof and destroys my tile, cell, and pipes. I'm in a quandry between these two items - Na and Ca - and short of water replacements, can't figure a solution.
(Even trying that Jacuzzi electonic RF calcium descaler thing but don't have high hopes for it - money back guarantee). Thanks,
Russ
(Even trying that Jacuzzi electonic RF calcium descaler thing but don't have high hopes for it - money back guarantee). Thanks,
Russ