I live in NJ, how many pounds of chlorine do you need to run a 38k gallon pool per day. I'm looking at swcg and don't want to have to run my system for over 8 hours and want to get a swcg that produces enough chlorine.... thanks.
Pounds of chlorine needed per day for 38k pool in NJ
- Thread starter maggs
- Start date
- May 3, 2014
- 58,350
- Pool Size
- 6000
- Surface
- Fiberglass
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-40
The largest residential SWCG are rated for 60K pools. You will need one of those, but in the summer you will need to most likely run your pump at least 12 hours per day to generate the chlorine needed.
Most pools use 2-4ppm of FC per day. In a 38k gallon pool that is 10-20oz or 0.625-1.25lbs a day. You would need to size the SWG to make this amount of gas in the time desired.
- Jul 21, 2013
- 52,446
- Pool Size
- 35000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-60
What Marty said. The biggest residential cell is the Circupool RJ60+ and you would have to run that 12 hours a day at 100% to get 3ppm.
In NJ your pool may only use 2ppm and you can get that with 5 hours of runtime.
So that gives you the range depending on your pools FC needs during the season.
In NJ your pool may only use 2ppm and you can get that with 5 hours of runtime.
So that gives you the range depending on your pools FC needs during the season.