Our Intex SWCG for our intex easy set agp is not raising FC levels as expected since we had a lot of rain storms. Does this mean we probably need to take it apart and clean the electrodes? Do we need anything special to do that?
Everything had been good for a while up until the rain storms. The pump show no error codes currently, and is at a good pressure of 8 psi. The pool is clear. we use a clear solar cover when not in use and it does have some funk on it from the trees above and the storms.
The FC is steadily decreasing despite increasing the time for running the pump and swcg. Our FC is currently 4.5 from 8.5/9 a week ago. It thunder-stormed several days and I did a backwash, rinse and waste to get the water level to where it should be (bottom of the blow up ring). I knew my chemicals went out with the water so several days later I tested the salt and it was 2400-2600ppm, the cya was around 50/55, FC was still good around 7.5/8. I’m not sure how long the salt had been down, but I’m guessing within a week and because of the rain and then the draining of excess water. So, a few days ago we added more salt and cya.
Now the salt is at 3600ppm - a tad bit high, FC is decreasing and now 4.5, the cya is up to about 65, ph is down to 7.0 and TA is down to about 65.
The FC has gone from 8 to 6.8 to 4.5 over the last 4 days with no additional drain on the water. The water temp has increased a bit from about 83 to 88 degrees and we have been swimming more. The CC was zero until today, it is registering something lower than .5 - I didn’t do the .2 version of the test because I’m almost out of the reagent. I have been running the swcg 5 hours instead of 3/4 this week, and last night I ran it 6 hrs because the FC was only 4.5 and then we swam all day yesterday...today the FC is still 4.5.
We have some granulated liquid chlorine we can add if needed, but I’m mostly trying to figure out why running the swcg a long time isn’t increasing the FC.
Everything had been good for a while up until the rain storms. The pump show no error codes currently, and is at a good pressure of 8 psi. The pool is clear. we use a clear solar cover when not in use and it does have some funk on it from the trees above and the storms.
The FC is steadily decreasing despite increasing the time for running the pump and swcg. Our FC is currently 4.5 from 8.5/9 a week ago. It thunder-stormed several days and I did a backwash, rinse and waste to get the water level to where it should be (bottom of the blow up ring). I knew my chemicals went out with the water so several days later I tested the salt and it was 2400-2600ppm, the cya was around 50/55, FC was still good around 7.5/8. I’m not sure how long the salt had been down, but I’m guessing within a week and because of the rain and then the draining of excess water. So, a few days ago we added more salt and cya.
Now the salt is at 3600ppm - a tad bit high, FC is decreasing and now 4.5, the cya is up to about 65, ph is down to 7.0 and TA is down to about 65.
The FC has gone from 8 to 6.8 to 4.5 over the last 4 days with no additional drain on the water. The water temp has increased a bit from about 83 to 88 degrees and we have been swimming more. The CC was zero until today, it is registering something lower than .5 - I didn’t do the .2 version of the test because I’m almost out of the reagent. I have been running the swcg 5 hours instead of 3/4 this week, and last night I ran it 6 hrs because the FC was only 4.5 and then we swam all day yesterday...today the FC is still 4.5.
We have some granulated liquid chlorine we can add if needed, but I’m mostly trying to figure out why running the swcg a long time isn’t increasing the FC.
. Did you use liquid chlorine to start the pool off so that the cell could *maintain* that level? Also anytime you need a quick increase of chlorine to avoid algae, supplement with liquid chlorine. 
