The pool was installed yesterday and is currently filling up with pure Johnston County tap water! I'm trying to maintain 3 ppm LC while it fills.
Looking for advice on 1st Above Ground pool
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VinnyinNJ
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- Jul 20, 2022
- 1,051
- Pool Size
- 13500
- Surface
- Vinyl
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Hayward Turbo Cell (T-CELL-5)
When adding granular CYA can I pre-dissolve it in a bucket and then pour it into the pool? I don't really have a good method to suspend a sock in front of the return jet. I placed a sock in the skimmer basket and it almost ran the pump dry. I'm glad I was still standing there!
- May 3, 2014
- 62,687
- Pool Size
- 6000
- Surface
- Fiberglass
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-40
Does not work. Many have tried. Just use the sock method. Do you not have a pole for your brush? Use that.
It needs a constant supply of water or it'll quickly over saturate a bucket (etc).
I tried many ways back when, large storage tubs, garbage cans, hot water, etc. The sack didn't dissolve and turned into a brick instead. Use your pool pole and get it a couple of feet into (across) the pool. The regular water movement will work, it just might take a little longer. It can wait until tomorrow to squish out.
I tried many ways back when, large storage tubs, garbage cans, hot water, etc. The sack didn't dissolve and turned into a brick instead. Use your pool pole and get it a couple of feet into (across) the pool. The regular water movement will work, it just might take a little longer. It can wait until tomorrow to squish out.
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I finished filling the pool with tap water yesterday around noon. In total, it took about 35 hours to fill the pool. The water meter reads 10,293 gallons used, and we had other household activities going on during that time, so I took a guess that the pool is about 9,500 gallons and plugged that into PoolMath. Since I'm not 100% sure of the exact size of the pool I decided to slow walk the addition of CYA and Salt. I targeted 50 ppm on CYA, and 2000 ppm on Salt. I also tried to maintain 3 ppm of LC yesterday.
So here's where I stand on my test results this morning;
FC 3.0
CC 0
PH 6.8
TA 30
CYA 50
CH 50
SALT 2000
Water Temp 73 degrees
Getting ready to run to Lowe's and Walmart. I didn't realize the pool installers wouldn't set the 4x4 post for the SWG, so I need to take care of that today. As a result I'll probably run a couple of days longer using LC than I had intended so I need to pick up some for LC from Walmart. What else should be on my shopping list today? Borax for PH? Baking Soda for TA? I'm going to dump another bag and a half of salt in this morning trying to get to 3000. and I need to bring CYA up to 70 (BTW: that is a hard test to read!)
I finished filling the pool with tap water yesterday around noon. In total, it took about 35 hours to fill the pool. The water meter reads 10,293 gallons used, and we had other household activities going on during that time, so I took a guess that the pool is about 9,500 gallons and plugged that into PoolMath. Since I'm not 100% sure of the exact size of the pool I decided to slow walk the addition of CYA and Salt. I targeted 50 ppm on CYA, and 2000 ppm on Salt. I also tried to maintain 3 ppm of LC yesterday.
So here's where I stand on my test results this morning;
FC 3.0
CC 0
PH 6.8
TA 30
CYA 50
CH 50
SALT 2000
Water Temp 73 degrees
Getting ready to run to Lowe's and Walmart. I didn't realize the pool installers wouldn't set the 4x4 post for the SWG, so I need to take care of that today. As a result I'll probably run a couple of days longer using LC than I had intended so I need to pick up some for LC from Walmart. What else should be on my shopping list today? Borax for PH? Baking Soda for TA? I'm going to dump another bag and a half of salt in this morning trying to get to 3000. and I need to bring CYA up to 70 (BTW: that is a hard test to read!)
Just added another sock of CYA to bring me to 70 and adjusted FC to 5 ppm. Headed out to buy LC, Baking Soda, and Borax, or should I used Washing Soda to increase PH and TA at the same time?
Always better to handle one at a time. There's less chance of fouling one of them up.
And Borax and Baking soda are dirt cheap so it's not like you'll go broke buying 2 things instead of one.
- Jun 1, 2018
- 16,012
- Pool Size
- 26000
- Surface
- Vinyl
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Hayward Aqua Rite (T-15)
Looking pretty good this morning, now I just need to break out the post hole digger and get the SWG mounted and running.
FC 9.5
CC 0
PH 7.6
TA 80
CYA 70
CH 50
SALT 3000
Water Temp 75 degrees
FC 9.5
CC 0
PH 7.6
TA 80
CYA 70
CH 50
SALT 3000
Water Temp 75 degrees
I have an Aqautrol SWG which is rated for an 18,000 gal pool. Does that mean it would generate 3ppm for an 18k pool if running 100% for 24 hours? My pool is ~ 10k. What setting would I typically need to use for my pool?
I got the SWG setup this morning, but kept if off because I wanted to see how much the FC would drop by the end of the day. Went from 9.5 this morning to 6 tonight. So a drop of 3.5. I dosed a little over a quart of LC to get me back to 9. I’ll try turning on the SWG in the morning to see how that works. Maybe 30% all day? Any other suggestions?
Im planning on running the pump
24x7. Maybe low speed after night fall.
I just took my evening measurement
FC 6
CC 0
Ph 7.6
Im planning on running the pump
24x7. Maybe low speed after night fall.
I just took my evening measurement
FC 6
CC 0
Ph 7.6
At any point, use poolmath effects of adding to see the combos of run time and % that produce the FC you're looking for.
It's easiest to use 100% and then find the hours. Say. For 3 FC it needs to run 6 hours. (Not your #s just an example). Once you know it needs 6 hours at 100%, then it's easier to math the rest on your own. 12 hours at 50%, 24 hours at 25%, etc.
How would you interpret this PH test? 8.0? Also, The salt test and the reading on my SWG don't match. The salt test said it was 3000 and Aquatrol readout said it was 2800. I heard somewhere that the Aquatrol likes to be around 3000, so I added 16 lbs of salt per PoolMath to bump it up by 200. 18 hours later the Aguatrol still reads 2800. Is this normal?
Use scrap paper or your thumbs and block off the other #s to only compare one at a time. I find yes/no way easier than best of 3. For example
More than 7.8
Less than 8.2
If you're even close, close enough is close enough. If you nail it, it's all gravy.
More than 7.8
Less than 8.2
If you're even close, close enough is close enough. If you nail it, it's all gravy.
- Jun 1, 2018
- 16,012
- Pool Size
- 26000
- Surface
- Vinyl
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Hayward Aqua Rite (T-15)
The aquatrol uses a t5 cell which produces 0.636 to 0.784 lbs/day (lets call it 0.7 # for simplicity)
Here’s what that looks like in your pool volume
Play around with the effects of adding to determine your needed run time and % to cover your expected daily fc loss.
Add the 0.7 # to your poolmath settings & you can add your latest swcg settings as a log just like any other chemical addition using the
. To make it easy to see & track.It will look like this
