Hi everyone,
I've been trying to put some concepts in my brain about CYA/FC and maintaining it with my SWG. So I currently understand that CYA helps to protect the chlorine in the pool from being used up by the UV of the sun. In my case, my pool is in constant sunlight. My CYA is <20 (the Taylor test doesn't even produce a cloudy solution). This means that even if I wanted to keep an acceptable FC range of 3-4 the sun will eat it all up in a few hours. Now increasing my CYA to, say 60-70 ppm, this will help protect the Chlorine from being completely removed from my pool. The down side to it is that CYA diminishes the sanitizing effects of the FC. In order to combat this I need to have a higher FC about 5. If I have my SWG running, won't I loose 1-3 ppm to the sun anyways? If without the CYA my SWG is needing (random number of 1-10) 9 on its level to maintain a 3ppm, will maintaining my CYA at 70 decrease the SWG setting (say 6 on 1-10 scale) to remain FC target at 5???? Thanks for helping with this concept.
I've been trying to put some concepts in my brain about CYA/FC and maintaining it with my SWG. So I currently understand that CYA helps to protect the chlorine in the pool from being used up by the UV of the sun. In my case, my pool is in constant sunlight. My CYA is <20 (the Taylor test doesn't even produce a cloudy solution). This means that even if I wanted to keep an acceptable FC range of 3-4 the sun will eat it all up in a few hours. Now increasing my CYA to, say 60-70 ppm, this will help protect the Chlorine from being completely removed from my pool. The down side to it is that CYA diminishes the sanitizing effects of the FC. In order to combat this I need to have a higher FC about 5. If I have my SWG running, won't I loose 1-3 ppm to the sun anyways? If without the CYA my SWG is needing (random number of 1-10) 9 on its level to maintain a 3ppm, will maintaining my CYA at 70 decrease the SWG setting (say 6 on 1-10 scale) to remain FC target at 5???? Thanks for helping with this concept.
