Hi all,
Years ago I frequented this site learning my way through my first pool (28k gal pool in Phoenix… chlorine was a major monthly expense haha).
Years later I now just moved to Oregon, where there is no sun and my pool is now a 340 galling hot tub.
we just got a new salt water hot spring triumph tub with the built in chlorine generator.
I just got it up and running last night. The startup procedure was to fill, add salt, balance, shock. All went well except I’m using the included multi test strips (I used to used a dpd-fas Taylor kit and I have one on the way now) and I think I’m in the ballpark on overall water chemistry per both manuals and the test strip ranges.
ive tested for TA, CH, FC, and PH. And salt.
Admittedly it’s a bit of a swag with those test strips as they seem fairly finicky and the color seems to just change after the immediate reading (my strips say read immediately).
so here is my issue… when I was adjusting water chem last night as expected I got a reading of zero for bromine (it’s in the test strip). Makes sense since i am on a salt-chlorine setup, right?
After heating the tub overnight, now I’m seeing high bromine levels on the test strips (like as much as the strip will measure).
All I added to the pool was salt, CH increaser, and TA increaser and dichlor to shock. I read all the ingredients and there isn’t anything containing bromine.
One other detail - I filled with RO water as we are on a well and the entire house runs on RO. Testing confirmed absolutely nothing in the water at fill time.
So on the surface it appears that warming up the tub drove the bromine levels up, which doesn’t sound like a reasonable thing to me.
so, a) what gives and b) I assume the bromine will burn off if it is in fact present?
My lead hypotheses are bad strips, or when they tested the pool in the factory they dropped some bromine into it to keep it sanitary during shipping? And it took overnight to dissolve enough to read it, hence not showing in initial water testing?
thanks all in advance.
Years ago I frequented this site learning my way through my first pool (28k gal pool in Phoenix… chlorine was a major monthly expense haha).
Years later I now just moved to Oregon, where there is no sun and my pool is now a 340 galling hot tub.
we just got a new salt water hot spring triumph tub with the built in chlorine generator.
I just got it up and running last night. The startup procedure was to fill, add salt, balance, shock. All went well except I’m using the included multi test strips (I used to used a dpd-fas Taylor kit and I have one on the way now) and I think I’m in the ballpark on overall water chemistry per both manuals and the test strip ranges.
ive tested for TA, CH, FC, and PH. And salt.
Admittedly it’s a bit of a swag with those test strips as they seem fairly finicky and the color seems to just change after the immediate reading (my strips say read immediately).
so here is my issue… when I was adjusting water chem last night as expected I got a reading of zero for bromine (it’s in the test strip). Makes sense since i am on a salt-chlorine setup, right?
After heating the tub overnight, now I’m seeing high bromine levels on the test strips (like as much as the strip will measure).
All I added to the pool was salt, CH increaser, and TA increaser and dichlor to shock. I read all the ingredients and there isn’t anything containing bromine.
One other detail - I filled with RO water as we are on a well and the entire house runs on RO. Testing confirmed absolutely nothing in the water at fill time.
So on the surface it appears that warming up the tub drove the bromine levels up, which doesn’t sound like a reasonable thing to me.
so, a) what gives and b) I assume the bromine will burn off if it is in fact present?
My lead hypotheses are bad strips, or when they tested the pool in the factory they dropped some bromine into it to keep it sanitary during shipping? And it took overnight to dissolve enough to read it, hence not showing in initial water testing?
thanks all in advance.
