Hello all,
First off a great site.
I have read loads of info and a bit head spinney so hope one of you will wind me up and set me going in the right direction...
My salt water above ground pool is the.
Intex 28375EH Ultra Frame Pool Set, 32-Feet by 16-Feet by 52-Inch (9.75m X 4.8768m X 1.3208m) at 90% full I think about 13313 Us Gal (56000 liters )
It comes with its own chlorine and ozone generator. IÂ’ve had it a couple of years and the water has always been crystal clear no problems with anything, really the easiest pool to maintain that there could be.
I relied on the generator to keep an eye on my salt levels and really just periodically checked the chemicals using aqua check pool and spa test strips. Bar adding a little CYA nothing seemed to change much. This is my third year and I took the liberty to be away for four weeks and came back to a completely green pool. The chlorine generator had tripped and told me it detected low salt levels. I had a TDS electronic salinity meter which seemed to tell me whatever it felt like so I got hold of some aqua check salt test sticks..
The test sticks told me salt was 900 ppm, so way lower than recommended.
An online calc told me to add 157 kgs. My thoughts were no point fiddling with anything else until I get the salt level right so I added 100 Kgs and re tested and now the same salt test strip tells me IÂ’m at 3700 ppm which doesnÂ’t make sense to me at all.
So IÂ’m thinking to myself I actually donÂ’t know whatÂ’s going on here.
I have the following readings (aqua check strips)
PH 7.2%
FC 0 ppm (as expected)
TA 40 ppm
Stabilizer >0 but < 30 ppm as itÂ’s between colours but closer to 0 ppm than 30ppm
Water temp here is around 14 degrees Celsius.
I have liters of sodium hypochlorite (12- 15%) waiting to be thrown in but not sure what I should do first?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
First off a great site.
I have read loads of info and a bit head spinney so hope one of you will wind me up and set me going in the right direction...
My salt water above ground pool is the.
Intex 28375EH Ultra Frame Pool Set, 32-Feet by 16-Feet by 52-Inch (9.75m X 4.8768m X 1.3208m) at 90% full I think about 13313 Us Gal (56000 liters )
It comes with its own chlorine and ozone generator. IÂ’ve had it a couple of years and the water has always been crystal clear no problems with anything, really the easiest pool to maintain that there could be.
I relied on the generator to keep an eye on my salt levels and really just periodically checked the chemicals using aqua check pool and spa test strips. Bar adding a little CYA nothing seemed to change much. This is my third year and I took the liberty to be away for four weeks and came back to a completely green pool. The chlorine generator had tripped and told me it detected low salt levels. I had a TDS electronic salinity meter which seemed to tell me whatever it felt like so I got hold of some aqua check salt test sticks..
The test sticks told me salt was 900 ppm, so way lower than recommended.
An online calc told me to add 157 kgs. My thoughts were no point fiddling with anything else until I get the salt level right so I added 100 Kgs and re tested and now the same salt test strip tells me IÂ’m at 3700 ppm which doesnÂ’t make sense to me at all.
So IÂ’m thinking to myself I actually donÂ’t know whatÂ’s going on here.
I have the following readings (aqua check strips)
PH 7.2%
FC 0 ppm (as expected)
TA 40 ppm
Stabilizer >0 but < 30 ppm as itÂ’s between colours but closer to 0 ppm than 30ppm
Water temp here is around 14 degrees Celsius.
I have liters of sodium hypochlorite (12- 15%) waiting to be thrown in but not sure what I should do first?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks