Hayward Chlorinator, Free Chlorine Salt PPM Levels

[PBacker23]

Hi All,

I’m a new salt water pool owner and I have a couple questions that you guys can probably help me with.

System: Hayward, including Omni PL

Free Chlorine: I’ve been running my filter/chlorinator about 12 hours a day. My PPM levels are around 3500 but im getting a free chlorine reading of ZERO.

I increased the chlorinator percentage and my pool guy told me to run the system 24 hours to see if that brings up the levels.

I noticed that when I increase the chlorinator over 75% that my instant PPM levels start to spike and head towards 4000ppm.

I want to be at 3200PPM with a free chlorine reading between 1-3.

What is the best way to achieve this?? Should I ignore the instant PPM spike and keep a high chlorinator % until I get a free chlorine reading??

Thanks in advance

 

[wireform]

The best way is to have a way to test for yourself
Test Kits Compared. For all you know you have some algae brewing even if you can't see it.
Here are some links to get educated.
Pool Care Basics
FC/CYA Levels
Overnight Chlorine Loss Test
PoolMath
SLAM Process
SWCG are for maintaining the FC but it won't bring you up from zero. You need liquid shock aka chlorine till you get this figured out.