Hello. First post here. I think I've got a handle on my situation but wanted to gather any additional feedback from this pool (no pun intended) of experienced users.
I've got a ~35K gallon SW pool. Current salinity is around 3Kppm. New T-15 in place.
I use the Taylor K2005 to keep my chemicals balanced throughout the week.
My ranges are typically right around:
pH: 7.4-7.6
Total alkalinity: 90-110
Calcium hardness: 480
CYA: 50
My question is concerning the chlorinator. I disabled my chlorinator for a few days and allowed all the free chlorine to dissipate through UV exposure (hot long sunny days in AZ). That seemed to work just fine. FC dropped like a weight from 6ppm to near 0 in 2 days. Now I'm working on establishing a healthy % based chlorinator setting. I set it to 35% overnight and woke up to test the water and it was at 5ppm, left it to run for a full additional day and it jumped to 10ppm. Turned it off, and it seems to drop anywhere from 4-5ppm every day it isn't running from pure UV exposure.
Based on this data, I have concluded (barring unmentioned external factors) that a natural UV burn rate of FC 4-5ppm per day exists, and that is while the cell is running at 35%. So without the cell running, I lose 4-5ppm per day, but with it running at 35% it rises 4-5ppm per day (while simultaneously experiencing UV burn).
So if I am understanding what's happening, 35% chlorinator setting is really generating more like 10ppm per day, which is being reduced to 5ppm per day after UV burn.
In order to maintain a consistently safe and ideal level of FC, what rate and percentage should I be setting my chlorinator at, and should I only be generating chlorine during the day or at night or both?
Also, for whatever reason, it appears with Hayward you can set the chlorinator on a schedule, but it doesn't actually function. You have to manually turn it on or off which kind of defeats the purpose of having a schedule option, and makes it difficult to automate chlorine generation.
Sorry in advance for the convoluted breakdown of data. I tried to make it as straightforward as possible based on what I have collected.
I've got a ~35K gallon SW pool. Current salinity is around 3Kppm. New T-15 in place.
I use the Taylor K2005 to keep my chemicals balanced throughout the week.
My ranges are typically right around:
pH: 7.4-7.6
Total alkalinity: 90-110
Calcium hardness: 480
CYA: 50
My question is concerning the chlorinator. I disabled my chlorinator for a few days and allowed all the free chlorine to dissipate through UV exposure (hot long sunny days in AZ). That seemed to work just fine. FC dropped like a weight from 6ppm to near 0 in 2 days. Now I'm working on establishing a healthy % based chlorinator setting. I set it to 35% overnight and woke up to test the water and it was at 5ppm, left it to run for a full additional day and it jumped to 10ppm. Turned it off, and it seems to drop anywhere from 4-5ppm every day it isn't running from pure UV exposure.
Based on this data, I have concluded (barring unmentioned external factors) that a natural UV burn rate of FC 4-5ppm per day exists, and that is while the cell is running at 35%. So without the cell running, I lose 4-5ppm per day, but with it running at 35% it rises 4-5ppm per day (while simultaneously experiencing UV burn).
So if I am understanding what's happening, 35% chlorinator setting is really generating more like 10ppm per day, which is being reduced to 5ppm per day after UV burn.
In order to maintain a consistently safe and ideal level of FC, what rate and percentage should I be setting my chlorinator at, and should I only be generating chlorine during the day or at night or both?
Also, for whatever reason, it appears with Hayward you can set the chlorinator on a schedule, but it doesn't actually function. You have to manually turn it on or off which kind of defeats the purpose of having a schedule option, and makes it difficult to automate chlorine generation.
Sorry in advance for the convoluted breakdown of data. I tried to make it as straightforward as possible based on what I have collected.
