Check me on this - wanting to add small amount of salt to chlorine Spa.

[ironman61]

Recently we switched our pool from Chlorine to an Intellichlor SWG and the difference in the feel of the water was quite remarkable- we couldn't believe it. At the time we didn't really want to splurge for a second salt cell for our separate Spa, but we'd love to get the same / similar feel as we have in the pool. I'm certain i could add a bit of the pool salt to the Spa. On an old / closed thread it said be sure to measure what you already have, so I took my sample into the local Leslies and had them test it.

Question 1: PPM is PPM regardless of the size of body of water. Size only matters when i calculate the quantity of Salt to add. Correct? So if my Salt level is 800 ppm, it doesn't matter if i said it was 1000 gal when it's only 600 gal, the PPM is accurate for either, no adjustments needed.

Question 2: What target Salt level should I be shooting for? the Pool's ~3600ppm for the SWG. the Spa doesn't have the need to be that. How much is too much salt?

 

[Bperry]

Recently we switched our pool from Chlorine to an Intellichlor SWG and the difference in the feel of the water was quite remarkable- we couldn't believe it. At the time we didn't really want to splurge for a second salt cell for our separate Spa, but we'd love to get the same / similar feel as we have in the pool. I'm certain i could add a bit of the pool salt to the Spa. On an old / closed thread it said be sure to measure what you already have, so I took my sample into the local Leslies and had them test it.

Question 1: PPM is PPM regardless of the size of body of water. Size only matters when i calculate the quantity of Salt to add. Correct? So if my Salt level is 800 ppm, it doesn't matter if i said it was 1000 gal when it's only 600 gal, the PPM is accurate for either, no adjustments needed.

Question 2: What target Salt level should I be shooting for? the Pool's ~3600ppm for the SWG. the Spa doesn't have the need to be that. How much is too much salt?

ppm=ppm

Question 2 is up to you. If you’re only adding it for the feel, keep adding until you like it, but stop before 4000ppm

 

[ironman61]

thank you!

 

[wayner]

I have a drape over Controlmatic SmarterSpa SWCG in my spa but it calls for a target salt level of 1500-2000 ppm as opposed to 3000-4000 ppm in my pool which has a Jandy Aquapure 1400 SWCG. Not sure how that relates to feel, but you don't need to go that high.