Hey folks,
Only my second year of having the pool and I don't remember ever adding this much Ph Down, seems I'm adding some every 2-3 days to keep the PH below 7.8. We have a 5950 Gallon salt water pool (above ground vinyl) and I recently just discovered the recommended ranges on this site. Got the water tested yesterday with these results:
FC: 2.55ppm
Total: 2.94ppm
Combined: 0.39ppm
pH 7.8
Hardness 118ppm
Alkalinity 71ppm
Cyanuric Acid 20 ppm (which I wanted to bring up to the 75-80 range according to that guide)
Copper, iron, phosphate all 0ppm.
Salt 2990ppm.
According to the calculator, I added 1250grams of CYA and waited on the pH down since I figured the CYA would drop my Ph, which it did to 7.2, but it's already back at 7.8.
First question, will that much CYA drop my alkalinity? Do I need to add borates? Should I wait a few days with the newly upped CYA and see what happens?
Maybe a stupid question, but this pool is small and the pump is very strong, could that be cause any aeration? The return jet is well below the surface of the water, but it still shoots it out like crazy.
Anyhow, sorry for all the questions, still new to this and still stuck going to the pool store for testing since these Taylor Kits are about 235$ here.
Thanks.
Only my second year of having the pool and I don't remember ever adding this much Ph Down, seems I'm adding some every 2-3 days to keep the PH below 7.8. We have a 5950 Gallon salt water pool (above ground vinyl) and I recently just discovered the recommended ranges on this site. Got the water tested yesterday with these results:
FC: 2.55ppm
Total: 2.94ppm
Combined: 0.39ppm
pH 7.8
Hardness 118ppm
Alkalinity 71ppm
Cyanuric Acid 20 ppm (which I wanted to bring up to the 75-80 range according to that guide)
Copper, iron, phosphate all 0ppm.
Salt 2990ppm.
According to the calculator, I added 1250grams of CYA and waited on the pH down since I figured the CYA would drop my Ph, which it did to 7.2, but it's already back at 7.8.
First question, will that much CYA drop my alkalinity? Do I need to add borates? Should I wait a few days with the newly upped CYA and see what happens?
Maybe a stupid question, but this pool is small and the pump is very strong, could that be cause any aeration? The return jet is well below the surface of the water, but it still shoots it out like crazy.
Anyhow, sorry for all the questions, still new to this and still stuck going to the pool store for testing since these Taylor Kits are about 235$ here.
Thanks.