Equipment mystery

[kjoconnor]

I had this pool running last year with the equipment pictured, but there were a few mysteries I never figured out.

1 - There’s another plug here for something besides the pump that I don’t know what it was used for
2 - There’s a thin black tube that goes across the return (I think!) PVC
3 - There’s an open PVC pipe that has never had anything connected to it

For context this is a ~27000 gallon 50 or 60 year old inground pool with a single speed pump and cartridge filter.

 

[ajw22]

2 are suction and injection points for a tablet chlorinator that was removed so the holed were ties together rather then plugging them.

No way to know what other equipment was plugged into 1 or piped into 3.

How do you chlorinate your pool now?

 

[kjoconnor]

Last year the pool guy we hired dropped tablets in the skimmer. I’ve read here that’s not a great idea, so definitely open to using an automated chlorinator or doing liquid chlorine if that’s the recommendation.

 

[PoolStored]

Liquid Chorine or Salt Water Chlorine Generator.

 

[ajw22]

If you want to use Trichlor tablets then put them in a floater in the pool.

Watch your CYA level as you don't want it above about 60 with Trichlor and use a good test kit.

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Usage Tips​

• TriChlor is very acidic so it should NOT be used in the skimmer and especially not if the pump ever stops running.
• Generally, if TriChlor is used, it is put into a floating dispenser which has it slowly dissolve. It can also used in an inline feeder.
• Some manufacturers have started adding copper pucks/sticks/tabs to TriChlor. If the label says "Blue" that is a code word for containing copper. You do not want Copper in Pool Water.

 

[kjoconnor]

Yeah hopefully next year is the time to switch to SWG.

I don’t have any particular attachment to any method, if I already have the plumbing (that thin black line) for a chlorinator would it make sense to use that for this season? Or just don’t even bother and go straight to liquid chlorine until I can go SWG next year?

 

[ajw22]

I would not install a chlorinator.

Use Trichlor in a floater or liquid chlorine until you install a SWG.