IntelliPH - small leak from "injector" fitting

[bertschb]

I dilute the 31% acid 1:1 with water - same as you. I'm currently running 7 doses daily at 40%. Too soon to know where I'll end up.

 

[rstrouse]

Actually the term it uses is full strength muriatic acid. Full strength muriatic acid is actually 22 baume or 34.6%. Any greater percentage is hydrochloric acid.

Once you get the hang of it let the TA drop and figure out where your equilibrium is. Either way there is always upward drift on the pH in a plaster pool. Keep your CSI below 0 and you keep the scale in check. I don’t let mine go lower than -.4.

 

[proavia]

Take a utility knife to the pad with you and unscrew the cap to the jug. Leave the seal on the jug and invert it into the canister. Then bump the top of the jug and it will break the seal. Then take that utility knife and poke a hole in the top. About 5 seconds later you can pull the empty jug from the canister.

Just don't do this if you get your MA in the 4 pack of refillable 1 gallon jugs. Oh, those don't have the seal either.

 

[Dirk]

Actually the term it uses is full strength muriatic acid. Full strength muriatic acid is actually 22 baume or 34.6%. Any greater percentage is hydrochloric acid.

Thank you for that. I wished they'd been more specific in the manual. How many people would know that? Here's the excerpt, which seems to cram into it most of what we've been discussing!

 

[rstrouse]

Yeah the only reason I know it is because I wrote a demand based pH dosing algorithm and needed to understand the pH drop per mL of acid at different strenghts.

 

[BigBillTX]

+1 on the leaky factory fitting. Just installed yesterday and looked pretty good, checked today and there was a little bit of water, just a really slow drip, drip, drip. Removed the two plastic fittings, cleaned the Teflon tape and re-applied. No more leaky.