Temperature and Salt levels

[Mlg8303]

I’ve seen a couple of posts that may address this but wanted to get advice on when to start adding salt to my pool. Vinyl liner, SWG (Hayward AquaRite), opened this week but the water is hovering between 50 and 60 degrees (around mid 50s). I turned on the SWG a couple of times and it’s flashing lights for low efficiency which I’m assuming is due to both salt reading (started out at 3000 when I turned it on, fell to 2500, my husband added 1/2 bag of salt and it’s now down to 2300), and low water temps. I remember last year (first full summer with pool) the salt readings went up as the temperatures rose so I am thinking my best bet is to wait to add any salt and use the SWG until I’m consistently in mid to high 60s for water temp to ensure we don’t over add salt. I did a stick test that also reads 2300. Does that make sense? For now I got the rest of the chemicals balanced and I’m using liquid chlorine, keeping the SWG off so I don’t stress it. It’s not burning through much chlorine at all which I’m also guessing is due to low temps.

 

[mknauss]

What does your K1766 salt test kit show for salinity?

 

[Mlg8303]

My Taylor kit doesn’t test for salt, I used a stick test.

 

[Jimrahbe]

M,

Most salt system do not work until the water is consistently mid 50's or above.

I find that my cell (IntelliChlor IC40) reports lower than actual salt readings until the water is 65 or so.

Thanks,

Jim R.