Hello all, I've recently converted our saltwater in-ground pool (pebble surfaces) from chlorine to bromine.
After experiencing some water quality problems with algal growth, I added sufficient sodium hypocrite to raise the total chlorine to 5ppm.
That should have activated some of the stored bromide to produce around 2ppm of bromine, which it seems to have done, but now the total chlorine test shows virtually zero (?).
Is it correct to assume that the activation of bromide to bromine has consumed all of the sodium hypocrite (chlorine) that was added just 24 hours earlier?
If so, what concentration of bromine should be maintained, and would the output from a Saltmate Chlorinator over 8 hours normally be sufficient to activate that concentration?
Many thanks.
After experiencing some water quality problems with algal growth, I added sufficient sodium hypocrite to raise the total chlorine to 5ppm.
That should have activated some of the stored bromide to produce around 2ppm of bromine, which it seems to have done, but now the total chlorine test shows virtually zero (?).
Is it correct to assume that the activation of bromide to bromine has consumed all of the sodium hypocrite (chlorine) that was added just 24 hours earlier?
If so, what concentration of bromine should be maintained, and would the output from a Saltmate Chlorinator over 8 hours normally be sufficient to activate that concentration?
Many thanks.