Hello! I have 2 questions that are semi related…
1. My SWG has suddenly stopped making chlorine. I left it on super chlorinate for 24 hrs and still reading 0 FAC. We cleaned everything and tried again and still nothing. I suspect the cell needs to be replaced (I have no idea how old it is, but we’ve been in this house for 2 years). Is there any other things I could try in the meantime? It is reading way lower salt than I have in my pool as well.
2 - because I didn’t know my SWG wasn’t working, my pool sat without chlorine for prob 5-6 days? (I test weekly). No algae growth or anything. Is it necessary to shock the pool? I dumped a couple gallons of bleach in and got the chlorine up to about 10ppm. Is that ok? Is super shocking it only necessary when there’s algae? Or should I be jacking the chlorine up higher than 10 after brief periods of no chlorine?
Thanks!
1. My SWG has suddenly stopped making chlorine. I left it on super chlorinate for 24 hrs and still reading 0 FAC. We cleaned everything and tried again and still nothing. I suspect the cell needs to be replaced (I have no idea how old it is, but we’ve been in this house for 2 years). Is there any other things I could try in the meantime? It is reading way lower salt than I have in my pool as well.
2 - because I didn’t know my SWG wasn’t working, my pool sat without chlorine for prob 5-6 days? (I test weekly). No algae growth or anything. Is it necessary to shock the pool? I dumped a couple gallons of bleach in and got the chlorine up to about 10ppm. Is that ok? Is super shocking it only necessary when there’s algae? Or should I be jacking the chlorine up higher than 10 after brief periods of no chlorine?
Thanks!