Folks,
This problem has been ongoing for a couple of months now. Salt levels for the pool started dropping to 2400 and as expected had put in 3 salt bags. The reading barely crept upto 2700 and then I noticed that the reading would drop 100 ppm by the day. At that point we had heavy rain and so I figured would add more salt on account of overflow etc. Now added 3 more bags. And the salt reading went upto 2500. This seemed kind of odd. And then added 3 more bags after and the level went upto 2600. At this point the pool tech did his own test and showed 6000 ppm. Water also tasted a lot more salty. He cleaned the salt cell which seemed to be dirty and after that the ppm on the display went to 3000. I checked the voltage, amps on the aquarite at that point and it was 24.8 and amps was 2.7. Today morning I did a re-calibrate and the reading settled at 3200. Did a run through the readings and got 89 as temp, 26 as voltage, 6.7 as amps and cycled through the rest until the t-15 and so on.
The cell was replaced in May 2016. Has anyone seen or been through similar situations? Does this smell like a cell gone bad? I also did salt testing myself with aquacheck strips and they still show 6000.
Thanks in advance.
This problem has been ongoing for a couple of months now. Salt levels for the pool started dropping to 2400 and as expected had put in 3 salt bags. The reading barely crept upto 2700 and then I noticed that the reading would drop 100 ppm by the day. At that point we had heavy rain and so I figured would add more salt on account of overflow etc. Now added 3 more bags. And the salt reading went upto 2500. This seemed kind of odd. And then added 3 more bags after and the level went upto 2600. At this point the pool tech did his own test and showed 6000 ppm. Water also tasted a lot more salty. He cleaned the salt cell which seemed to be dirty and after that the ppm on the display went to 3000. I checked the voltage, amps on the aquarite at that point and it was 24.8 and amps was 2.7. Today morning I did a re-calibrate and the reading settled at 3200. Did a run through the readings and got 89 as temp, 26 as voltage, 6.7 as amps and cycled through the rest until the t-15 and so on.
The cell was replaced in May 2016. Has anyone seen or been through similar situations? Does this smell like a cell gone bad? I also did salt testing myself with aquacheck strips and they still show 6000.
Thanks in advance.