Salt Level in a Non-Salt Pool

[johnboy85]

I purchased a Circupool salt system for my parent's pool. Before installing I wanted to test the pool's salt baseline so I ordered the TAYLOR K-1766 SALT TEST KIT. To my surprise the pool's apparent baseline is 2800ppm for sodium chloride. Is that normal for a non-salt water pool? It took 14 drops of R-0718 to turn the solution to brick red. 14x200= 2800. I'm surprised the baseline is this "high". What could cause this? Their pool is about 7500 gallons. It's a diamond bright inground pool located in Florida. They mostly use liquid chlorine with about one 3" tri-chlor tablet in a floater per week. They do shock it every other week with Clorox Shock XtraBLUE.

Could the shock and tri-chlor tablets caused this "high" salt baseline?

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[wireform]

Chlorine in liquid form is salt too. If that water hasn't been exchanged in some time it's definitely possible.

 

[wireform]

I purchased a Circupool salt system for my parent's pool. Before installing I wanted to test the pool's salt baseline so I ordered the TAYLOR K-1766 SALT TEST KIT. To my surprise the pool's apparent baseline is 2800ppm for sodium chloride. Is that normal for a non-salt water pool? It took 14 drops of R-0718 to turn the solution to brick red. 14x200= 2800. I'm surprised the baseline is this "high". What could cause this? Their pool is about 7500 gallons. It's a diamond bright inground pool located in Florida. They mostly use liquid chlorine with about one 3" tri-chlor tablet in a floater per week. They do shock it every other week with Clorox Shock XtraBLUE.

Could the shock and tri-chlor tablets caused this "high" salt baseline?

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The first drop that changed from yellow to brick red is your count.

 

[wireform]

When adding salt the SWCG needs to be off 24 hours with pump on. Do not add all you calculated for as if you overshoot and the cell isn't happy you'll need to drain. Circupool is good to 4000ppm but I run them @3200ish ppm since some people are sensitive to the salty taste around 4000ppm.

 

[johnboy85]

When adding salt the SWCG needs to be off 24 hours with pump on. Do not add all you calculated for as if you overshoot and the cell isn't happy you'll need to drain. Circupool is good to 4000ppm but I run them @3200ish ppm since some people are sensitive to the salty taste around 4000ppm.

Hey Wireform, I appreciate the info. Would it make sense to get the salt levels dialed in first before installing the salt system equipment?

 

[wireform]

It doesn't really matter as long as the circupool unit is @ 0% or non powered (don't know the model being used) it can be in line with water passing through it having no effect whatsoever as if it were a pvc pipe.