Just added salt and cya last night. Ran the filter 24 hours. Now I'm at 3800ppm salt, 7.0ph, and cya is 70. I just turned the salt pump on about an hour ago. Ph dropped over time, it's 7.5 out of the tap. All tests are with Taylor liquids. 16x48 summer waves elite, summer waves swg. Just filled Saturday night - Sunday afternoon. Where do I go? I'm running out of time with a 6y.o. that's ready to swim.
My results. Where to start.
- Thread starter james99
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Add 5 ppm of bleach/ chlorine until your SWG catches up. Use pool math you figure out how much to add based on the size of your pool and strength of your chlorine/bleach.
Post your results along with what test kit you are using, along with how many gallons your pool is
TC
CC
PH
ALK
CYA
Post your results along with what test kit you are using, along with how many gallons your pool is
TC
CC
PH
ALK
CYA
What's the problem? Yeah pH is a little low, but that will change with SWCG. A full set of test results would be nice, but outta the chute, seems fine, go swimming!
I'll run out and get some bleach. I would assume the chlorine levels are next to nothing considering i just turned the swg on or am I wrong? Ph is 7.0 and cya is 70.
TA is 120.
The test kit I have is the Leslie's Taylor copy in the pick below, I purchased a separate fas/dpd chlorine test from Taylor and their liquid salt test.
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I'm probably over reacting, I did the same when I first started aquarium keeping. Hang on specific water parameters, then panic if I don't end up with an exact pH or hardness or whatever parameter I'm looking at.
You will not have enough chlorine right away so you need to add Chlorine while your SWG catches up. Your target range is 3-5 ppm. I like to stay at the higher range of 5. Once you add the needed amount of chlorine run the pump to mix it in and go swimming.
Test your chlorine everyday until you know your SWG is generating enough to meet your target.
Enjoy your pool!
Test your chlorine everyday until you know your SWG is generating enough to meet your target.
Enjoy your pool!
Depending on where I was reading, some places said start with chlorine, then add the salt other places said just go straight to so, which I did. I should have got going with bleach, then let the salt take over.
To late to swim tonight, but he should be able to get in tomorrow. I let him in yesterday, he was the salt mixer.
Here's today's results after running the swg 10 hrs overnight.
FC-4.8
CC-.4
Ph-7.2
TA-50
CYA-60
Salt-3600
Looking decent, now I need to figure out how long to run the swg.
FC-4.8
CC-.4
Ph-7.2
TA-50
CYA-60
Salt-3600
Looking decent, now I need to figure out how long to run the swg.
Hers today's test. Anything stick out that needs attention?
FC-4
CC-.5
Ph-7.2
TA-120 ?
CYA-70
Salt-3600
FC-4
CC-.5
Ph-7.2
TA-120 ?
CYA-70
Salt-3600
- May 3, 2014
- 59,063
- Pool Size
- 6000
- Surface
- Fiberglass
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-40