- Nov 7, 2012
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Thanks! BTW, I ordered an wrench for the drain plug and they sent me 2 by mistake and they dont want it back. If you desire, I can send you one. Shoot me a PM. I will send for no charge.
Waiting on an address from another but you are next in line if I don't get it soon!Vcbmoore said:Pm sent
MonsterPoolMan said:Please help. I tried using the "Pool Calculator" but how do you use it? I place my gallons in the thing and on the left placed my targets, is there something else after I hit calculate?
jblizzle said:When in the shock process you should be running the filter 24/7 to clear everything out.
Clean the filter when the pressure goes up 20-25% of the clean pressure.
Ideally now you that you have raised to shock level (the 8 gallons raised your FC by 30ppm ... the shock level for a CYA of 50ppm is only 20ppm ... so you likely overshot quite a bit which is not recommended), you would be testing hourly to maintain the FC at shock level (which you do not have the test yet).
So, you "might" have killed everything, but no way to know until you can accurately test to maintain the appropriate FC level and to perform the OCLT.
BTW, testing for anything while the pool is still only half full is not going to give you an accurate result for anything without some math to determine what the factor should be.
EDIT, well, I guess that is not true. IF the pool was 50% full and you did the CYA test with all pool water, you would need to divide the result in half to get the actual CYA level when the pool is full.
jblizzle said:The FAS-DPD will easily go up to 50ppm.
MonsterPoolMan said:I more thing, I have the cheapo test kit and the chlorine test is brown. All is good I hope?
UnderWaterVanya said:MonsterPoolMan said:I more thing, I have the cheapo test kit and the chlorine test is brown. All is good I hope?
If that's the OTO type test (measures Yellow not Pink) then brown just means it is really a lot higher than the 5 max it normally measures - I think brown is > 30 if I recall correctly.
Here's a thread about that...
cholrine-test-is-dark-orange-color-t28961.html
I wouldn't say that I agree 100% with the values stated - I've seen orange at > 10 < 20.
MonsterPoolMan said:UnderWaterVanya said:MonsterPoolMan said:I more thing, I have the cheapo test kit and the chlorine test is brown. All is good I hope?
If that's the OTO type test (measures Yellow not Pink) then brown just means it is really a lot higher than the 5 max it normally measures - I think brown is > 30 if I recall correctly.
Here's a thread about that...
cholrine-test-is-dark-orange-color-t28961.html
I wouldn't say that I agree 100% with the values stated - I've seen orange at > 10 < 20.
It shouldn't harm anything right?