Crazy Chlorine Puck Question / Stenner pump feeder / BBB

[ryan380golf]

Ok I use the BBB method. Working great for years... I use 2 stenner pumps on timers feeding liquid chlorine and acid.

What would happen if I fill a big tub of chlorine pucks with water, and stick the feed hose in connected to my stenner pump?

Insane? Blow up? Death? Or the opposite? Would the CYA stay on the top?

 

[Donldson]

Yeah... no.

What you will get is a bucket of highly acidic chlorine solution. Don't go anywhere near it if you value your eyes or nose. The acidic water will quickly burn off the chlorine in to the air so you will be left with highly acidic liquid CYA. I can only imagine how your stenner hoses will react with that.

As for where the CYA will be: since it is all part of the trichlor molecule it will be exactly where the chlorine is until the chlorine dissipates in to the air.

 

[Shirker]

I personally feel it is a bad idea. But what is the goal? Even if the CYA did stay on the top you would have no idea where the boundary line is.

 

[ryan380golf]

So essentially I would be creating some kind of weapon of war? Maybe I need a highly acidic bucket of CYA...

Thanks for input!

 

[ryan380golf]

Sydney man severely injured mixing chlorine for pool

For five years, Clinton Maynard had used the same routine to top up the chemicals in his backyard pool without a problem.

www.smh.com.au

Found this article. Yes you could die if you do this! This guy added water to chlorine instead of the other way around and Boom!

 

[Donldson]

That's calcium hypochlorite, not trichlor. Trichlor doesn't do that, unless you decided to mix it with cal-hypo that is.

Still a really bad idea though.

 

[frogabog]

You can feel the heat of cal-hypo in the pre-mix/pour container.

It's crazy volatile. The package does remind us of this.