Two pool store samples, CYA way off

stygz

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Jun 30, 2020
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Middle Georgia
I had an interesting thing happen. Last season I last left off with a CYA of about 40. We leave our pool uncovered and pump running at night in the Georgia winters. I needed some liquid chlorine so I decided to take a sample in for my opening. I took the results home and compared them to my Taylor kit. All results showed near the same as mine. I looked at their CYA and it gave me a number of 100. While I did not test my CYA as I am out of the R0013 I knew the number was way off. I added a adjusted a few levels and still needed to pick up some calcium increaser. I took in another sample to a different store since I had to buy something. Their CYA came out to 19. This seems much more plausable as I left off last year at 40 but after a lowering the water level due to rain this seems about right.

The first store that gave me a CYA of 100 uses the Bioguard Alex system I believe. The second store that gave me a CYA of 19 uses a electronic ClearCare Expert analysis. I got to wonder how they could be so far off. i actually had this happen last year with the same stores. Weird. How can they be that far off?
 
Lack of quality control on the test units.
Contamination of pool samples from the customer before you.
Lack of experience by the person performing the test.

It gets worst as the summer progresses and pool stores hire temporary summer help.
 
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