Hey everyone,
So as a new pool owner on a property that we share with friends, so I am only up on the weekends, this last weekend the pool was cloudy and chlorine levels low. After a bit of research I realized I had let the total Alkalinity get way too high ~240 ppm. I cleaned the chlorine generator (IC40) with muriatic acid and it had significant calcium build up. So now we are in the process of adding acid, aerating, rinse, repeat to get the still high alkalinity down. The pool is mostly covered and the IC40 is on full (5 LEDs) for the last 4 days and still almost no free chlorine. We are only running the pumps about 6 hours per day, the pool is fiberglass 22000 gallons. The cyanuric acid is a little low, about 40 ppm, will be fixing that this weekend. I am concerned that the free chlorine doesn't come up at all... or even show if I dunk a test strip right into the return jets which I would think should read high...
So as a new pool owner on a property that we share with friends, so I am only up on the weekends, this last weekend the pool was cloudy and chlorine levels low. After a bit of research I realized I had let the total Alkalinity get way too high ~240 ppm. I cleaned the chlorine generator (IC40) with muriatic acid and it had significant calcium build up. So now we are in the process of adding acid, aerating, rinse, repeat to get the still high alkalinity down. The pool is mostly covered and the IC40 is on full (5 LEDs) for the last 4 days and still almost no free chlorine. We are only running the pumps about 6 hours per day, the pool is fiberglass 22000 gallons. The cyanuric acid is a little low, about 40 ppm, will be fixing that this weekend. I am concerned that the free chlorine doesn't come up at all... or even show if I dunk a test strip right into the return jets which I would think should read high...