Give that man a prize. It is. Its a hike but if you want to take a look a a setup let me know - you are more than welcome to swing by (Shepherd / 43rd area). More than happy to walk you through all of the ins and outs.
Pictures shortly.
I might have to take you up on this offer eventually. I assume that I would just manually chlorinate it for a while to see what my regular levels are, and then install it and set it to match up with that. Then just do regular water testing and adjust accordingly?
On another note, I'm amazed how much progress has been made. It took less than 25 hours to go from nothing to being ready for gunite. I wish it wasn't a holiday weekend, or they'd be shooting that in the morning.