Hi guys,
New pool owner and wondering if a salt water generator would be a good fit for me? We bought a house with a pool last September and this is the first pool I've had. We had a pool company servicing the pool for the first 3 months but didn't feel like they were doing much for the amount they were charging. I got the TF-100 test kit and have been taking care of it since December. I don't have a lot of time during the week to test and adjust the chlorine levels so I've pretty much been only testing once a week on the weekends and it's been alright, I haven't had any algae issues or anything but it hasn't really been that hot yet. Now that summer is here and we have a solar heater keeping the water at 85 degrees I know I'm going to need to keep the chlorine in check so it doesn't get out of hand. So I was thinking that a salt water generator would be ideal for my situation.
Here is my last test results from Sunday. It's a 14K gallon in ground plaster pool.
FC: 5.5
PH: 8.2 (Added 98 oz of 14.5% muriatic acid to lower this to 7.2 according to pool math)
TA: 110
CH: 500
CYA: 50 (This surprised me, I was always in the 80 - 90 range so not sure if I just figured out how to do the test properly or not. This time I did it on a sunny day with my back towards the sun and quickly filled the tube until I no longer saw the dot at the bottom. Before I feel like I may have done the test too slowly which messed the numbers up a bit.)
Water Temp: 85
If I switch to salt water am I going to have any issues according to my test results?
Also I have a Pentair Intelliflo VSF 011056 and a Pentair Solartouch control unit for the solar heating. I've been looking at the CircuPool RJ-45 PLUS as the SWG but with the equipment I have is there any benefit of going with the Pentair IC40 instead?
Thanks,
Peter
New pool owner and wondering if a salt water generator would be a good fit for me? We bought a house with a pool last September and this is the first pool I've had. We had a pool company servicing the pool for the first 3 months but didn't feel like they were doing much for the amount they were charging. I got the TF-100 test kit and have been taking care of it since December. I don't have a lot of time during the week to test and adjust the chlorine levels so I've pretty much been only testing once a week on the weekends and it's been alright, I haven't had any algae issues or anything but it hasn't really been that hot yet. Now that summer is here and we have a solar heater keeping the water at 85 degrees I know I'm going to need to keep the chlorine in check so it doesn't get out of hand. So I was thinking that a salt water generator would be ideal for my situation.
Here is my last test results from Sunday. It's a 14K gallon in ground plaster pool.
FC: 5.5
PH: 8.2 (Added 98 oz of 14.5% muriatic acid to lower this to 7.2 according to pool math)
TA: 110
CH: 500
CYA: 50 (This surprised me, I was always in the 80 - 90 range so not sure if I just figured out how to do the test properly or not. This time I did it on a sunny day with my back towards the sun and quickly filled the tube until I no longer saw the dot at the bottom. Before I feel like I may have done the test too slowly which messed the numbers up a bit.)
Water Temp: 85
If I switch to salt water am I going to have any issues according to my test results?
Also I have a Pentair Intelliflo VSF 011056 and a Pentair Solartouch control unit for the solar heating. I've been looking at the CircuPool RJ-45 PLUS as the SWG but with the equipment I have is there any benefit of going with the Pentair IC40 instead?
Thanks,
Peter