Second season over here and last year was uneventful, was going along with those strips, thinking I had things under control, boy was I wrong:
CC 0.2 ppm
FC 13.5 ppm (my Cell is on 90% power output and tests were taken at 9AM). Chlorine has been dropping to ~1 ppm by sun down (measured with strips).
pH 9.1!; added 83 fl Oz of Muriatic acid
TA 230 ppm!
CH 190 ppm
Salt 3100 ppm (reading from Hayward box)
and for the drum roll.....
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CYA= 0! So now I know why my FC has been doing the yoyo thing for the past weeks! Little did I know about stabilizers! and needless to say, I am DONE with these stupid things telling me CYA was ~30-40 BS.
Of course my saturation index is near 2! and yes, I have white scale at the bottom of the pool.
Thanks to TFP for emphasizing the need for a solid testing kit! I feel I have things under control, or at least a basic understanding of what is currently wrong with the pool.
Plan (please correct me, and thank you for taking the time to do so).
Gonna add water, do a back wash and get cranking on the TFP app to calculate lbs of cyanuric acid to add to raise that number to ~70!
I will test again tomorrow and report back.
Thanks again!
CC 0.2 ppm
FC 13.5 ppm (my Cell is on 90% power output and tests were taken at 9AM). Chlorine has been dropping to ~1 ppm by sun down (measured with strips).
pH 9.1!; added 83 fl Oz of Muriatic acid
TA 230 ppm!
CH 190 ppm
Salt 3100 ppm (reading from Hayward box)
and for the drum roll.....
.
.
.
CYA= 0! So now I know why my FC has been doing the yoyo thing for the past weeks! Little did I know about stabilizers! and needless to say, I am DONE with these stupid things telling me CYA was ~30-40 BS.
Of course my saturation index is near 2! and yes, I have white scale at the bottom of the pool.
Thanks to TFP for emphasizing the need for a solid testing kit! I feel I have things under control, or at least a basic understanding of what is currently wrong with the pool.
Plan (please correct me, and thank you for taking the time to do so).
Gonna add water, do a back wash and get cranking on the TFP app to calculate lbs of cyanuric acid to add to raise that number to ~70!
I will test again tomorrow and report back.
Thanks again!
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