New Pool - Salt Startup and Spillover

[Mdragger88]

Floating those 2 tabs probably won’t hurt anything but In the future when sourcing tabs you want to look for 99% trichlor - no extra stuff.
No xtra blue, 4 in 1, etc.
clorox makes some called active 99.
Pool essentials at Walmart were 99% in the past, haven’t seen any in a while.
Along with doheny & in the swim house branded ones.

Set your swcg to make 3- 4ppm/per day while you’re away.
You’re past the initial curing so no need to ride the minimum fc line. It just risks algae.
Dose to high target for your cya with liquid chlorine & see if your swcg settings maintain that. Rinse & repeat daily adjusting as necessary until they do.
FC/CYA Levels

 

[rd783]

Okay, so here's where I'm at and what I've done the past 48 hours

SALT
Tested my salt and it was at 800.
Added 7 x 40lb bags (280lbs), retested next day as salt was at 2800.
Added 1 more bag and next day salt now reads at 3400. Will check again when I get back from my trip.


CYA
My CYA has been around 40 (see this thread, Trouble reading pH and CYA)
I added 3lbs of dry stabilizer using the sock method with an aim to hit around CYA 65.
Tested this morning and the fill line was right between 50 and 60 so rounding up to 60. I'll be testing again when I get back before adding any more.
So my target FC will be (for now) between 4-9



Cl / SWG
As @Mdragger88 pointed out, I'm past curing so not going to ride the minimum FC line anymore.
I have my pump running 24/7 now so based on that and the pool math calculator I set it to 27% to generate 3.0ppm of Cl over 24 hours.



Cl Levels
6/12 6:46am - 4.5 FC (started the SWG at this time)
6/12 6:31pm - 4.5 FC (added 32oz LCl which would put me at 6ppm without including SWG)
6/13 7:01am - 8.0 FC
6/13 1:21pm - 7.0 FC
will update later with tonight's reading and tomorrow AM's reading.
6/13 7:22pm - 7.5 FC
6/14 7:02am - 8.5 FC
6/14 1:32pm - 8.0 FC
6/14 7:19pm - 7.5 FC


Pump Speed
Thanks to the help here I can now share RPMs for my pump speeds/schedules.
(How do I calculate my VS Pump RPMs?)

(Note, builder had me at 2800 RPM (80%) during the day and 2450 RPM (70%) overnight.

Plan on dialing this in further when I get back, but this is what I'm running at now:
1400 RPM (40%) 8am - 6pm
1225 RPM (35%) 6pm - 8am (I think my heater says FLO as this speed meaning it's too slow, but I'll work on that once I have the SWG dialed in)


Spillover
I now have this set to run 2x a day @ 20mins at 2450 RPM (70%)
9:00am - 9:20am
1:30pm - 1:50pm
Not sure if 2450 RPM is overkill, but the waterfall looks good at this speed!

 

[rd783]

Are you sure thats whats in the tabs? Trichlor tabs are the only thing you should use and Ive never seen zinc as an ingredient

Floating those 2 tabs probably won’t hurt anything but In the future when sourcing tabs you want to look for 99% trichlor - no extra stuff.
No xtra blue, 4 in 1, etc.
clorox makes some called active 99.
Pool essentials at Walmart were 99% in the past, haven’t seen any in a while.
Along with doheny & in the swim house branded ones.

Here's what they are from Walmart. Probably going to just return them. I've decided against using these while I'm away as it seems the SWG will keep up and I don't wanna risk the floater with the tabs staining any of the plaster.
HTH Tabs