- Apr 13, 2024
- 3
- Pool Size
- 7000
- Surface
- Fiberglass
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Jandy Truclear / Ei
Hi,
We had a new fiberglass pool installed and completed last fall. Filled with water (no salt) and sat all winter. The past few weeks in NC have been warm enough to get it opened. So got it all cleaned up and was going to add salt to begin using the salt water generator. I must have misread the calculation online. Supposedly the pool is 7000 gal per Latham diagram. I added 5 bags or 200 lbs of salt. I now know that was a little too much to get 3200. But I ran a salt test from TF Test kit and got 4800. I’m new to the kit so figured I was doing it wrong. Ordered salt test strips which gave me 5000. So that pretty much confirmed the first test.
So first question is, could the Latham diagram be wrong listing the pool at 7000 gallons? Using online calculators I tried to reverse the equation and came up with 5000 gallons.
Second question is am I going to pump out a bunch of water to get it where it should be? How critical is excessive salt?
We had a new fiberglass pool installed and completed last fall. Filled with water (no salt) and sat all winter. The past few weeks in NC have been warm enough to get it opened. So got it all cleaned up and was going to add salt to begin using the salt water generator. I must have misread the calculation online. Supposedly the pool is 7000 gal per Latham diagram. I added 5 bags or 200 lbs of salt. I now know that was a little too much to get 3200. But I ran a salt test from TF Test kit and got 4800. I’m new to the kit so figured I was doing it wrong. Ordered salt test strips which gave me 5000. So that pretty much confirmed the first test.
So first question is, could the Latham diagram be wrong listing the pool at 7000 gallons? Using online calculators I tried to reverse the equation and came up with 5000 gallons.
Second question is am I going to pump out a bunch of water to get it where it should be? How critical is excessive salt?