Just wondering on this. Last year I had issues with my salt generator making way too much chlorine. At first my CYA levels were high so I ended up draining the pool 3/4s and refilling. If I let my salt generator go on its own within a few days the chlorine level would be around 8PPM. So I would unplug the generator and let it go back down. That was my summer last year.
This year it doesn't seem to be doing it at all. The chlorine is sitting around 1-2ppm like it normally does. I had to add some stabilizer to keep it constant but it is not acting like last summer. The only difference I can think of was that last year I got some pool salt from a local pool store that was not the powdery instant dissolve kind. It was bigger crystals that sunk to the bottom of the pool and did dissolve over a day or so. This year I went back to the chlorox pool salt I had been using and it seems to be working fine.
Can the type of salt affect chlorine generation like this?
This year it doesn't seem to be doing it at all. The chlorine is sitting around 1-2ppm like it normally does. I had to add some stabilizer to keep it constant but it is not acting like last summer. The only difference I can think of was that last year I got some pool salt from a local pool store that was not the powdery instant dissolve kind. It was bigger crystals that sunk to the bottom of the pool and did dissolve over a day or so. This year I went back to the chlorox pool salt I had been using and it seems to be working fine.
Can the type of salt affect chlorine generation like this?
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