I have been worried about my SWG all season. It will barely make chlorine, as I can't get my levels over 1 or 2 and it used to be in the 5 to 7 range, no fail, until this season (3rd season, Pentair IntelliChlor IC40).
My thoughts are to replace the cell at the beginning of the season next year, as I only have until mid Oct. until the water temp falls below the needed operating temp to generate chlorine.
I have always supplemented with chlorine pucks during the winter as I don't close the pool and we use the attached spa.
When I went to pool store Friday, they said my CYA was 100 (when I tested before I went in to store it was around 40), which blew my mind as I couldn't imagine how it got so high as I had only added burnout 70 (or 73) two weeks ago...I just retested today and it is still 40. I had planned to buy stabilizer when I went in there Friday until I had been told it was 100. I think they confused my sample with someone else's sample.
So...either my SWG isn't working or my stabilizer is low....or do you think things are working and I am on the verge of a BLOOM, which makes it appear my SWG ISNT WORKING.
FC 1
CC 1
TC 2
PH 8.0 plus (2 drops will bring it to 7.6, so I need to add 1.5 qts MA)
TA 80
CYA 40
I was beginning to think I should just supplement with leach since I had thought my CYA was so high.... I don't have a FAS-DPD (I know, slap my hand)....so I didn't know that I would be able to SLAM...
OK...DONE RAMBLING, WHAT ADVICE DO YOU ALL HAVE FOR ME?!?
28,000 gallon, gunite, SWG, Pentair filter, attached spa
My thoughts are to replace the cell at the beginning of the season next year, as I only have until mid Oct. until the water temp falls below the needed operating temp to generate chlorine.
I have always supplemented with chlorine pucks during the winter as I don't close the pool and we use the attached spa.
When I went to pool store Friday, they said my CYA was 100 (when I tested before I went in to store it was around 40), which blew my mind as I couldn't imagine how it got so high as I had only added burnout 70 (or 73) two weeks ago...I just retested today and it is still 40. I had planned to buy stabilizer when I went in there Friday until I had been told it was 100. I think they confused my sample with someone else's sample.
So...either my SWG isn't working or my stabilizer is low....or do you think things are working and I am on the verge of a BLOOM, which makes it appear my SWG ISNT WORKING.
FC 1
CC 1
TC 2
PH 8.0 plus (2 drops will bring it to 7.6, so I need to add 1.5 qts MA)
TA 80
CYA 40
I was beginning to think I should just supplement with leach since I had thought my CYA was so high.... I don't have a FAS-DPD (I know, slap my hand)....so I didn't know that I would be able to SLAM...
OK...DONE RAMBLING, WHAT ADVICE DO YOU ALL HAVE FOR ME?!?
28,000 gallon, gunite, SWG, Pentair filter, attached spa