Two weeks ago I cleaned out my salt cell (a CMARCHA40-2Y by Calimar which claims to be T-15 equivalent about 2 years old) with diluted muriatic acid. It was really pretty clean, no visible build up of anything but the "inspect cell" led was on solid so I thought it was the right thing to do.
Last week my early-morning pool guy left a note to say my salt generator was not generating any chlorine. I looked and it was reading 2200ppm. The manual seems to say it needs to be at 2700 or more for best generation. The low salt and check cell lights were both flashing. The generating light would sometimes come on for a bit, but not stay on. I made the assumption that I needed salt. So I dumped in 3 x 40lbs and that brought it up to 2700 and then I added another yesterday and it settled at 2800. The generating light now comes on solid. I texted pool guy to let him know this. He texted back telling me he tested the salt level 3 weeks ago and it was 3650. I reached for an old analog Myron meter I was given and that now reads around 4500ppm - very high.
So it looks like I completely goofed adding the salt and was misled by the Aqua-rite under reporting the salt level. Is my cell bad? Is the Aqua-rite bad? Is there any harm in having such a high salt level (it will get diluted in time, losing about 2"/week to evaporation, 40,000 gallons pool) or is it urgent that I do some diluting? Thank you in advance for any responses. OP
Last week my early-morning pool guy left a note to say my salt generator was not generating any chlorine. I looked and it was reading 2200ppm. The manual seems to say it needs to be at 2700 or more for best generation. The low salt and check cell lights were both flashing. The generating light would sometimes come on for a bit, but not stay on. I made the assumption that I needed salt. So I dumped in 3 x 40lbs and that brought it up to 2700 and then I added another yesterday and it settled at 2800. The generating light now comes on solid. I texted pool guy to let him know this. He texted back telling me he tested the salt level 3 weeks ago and it was 3650. I reached for an old analog Myron meter I was given and that now reads around 4500ppm - very high.
So it looks like I completely goofed adding the salt and was misled by the Aqua-rite under reporting the salt level. Is my cell bad? Is the Aqua-rite bad? Is there any harm in having such a high salt level (it will get diluted in time, losing about 2"/week to evaporation, 40,000 gallons pool) or is it urgent that I do some diluting? Thank you in advance for any responses. OP