I guess I'm curious now..... did you do it? Did you add bromine to your chlorine pool?
Maddie
I figured someone was going to eventually ask, but I hope it doesn't turn into a topic about my pool and instead for just higher level understanding about the topic at hand.
Because I really want to understand how it works and I've searched online for information and it's just the same nonsense with a comparison with chlorine and how its more expensive. mknauss link was nothing but explaining HOW to use the bromine method, and not how it actually works. And anything chemgeek says looks like Chinese.
I did about a year ago. I mentioned it in a Thread on this website. The city I live in doesn't allow you to drain your pool due to a drought.
The CYA is the biggest issue. Around this time of year, yellow algae forms. And it costs me around 40-50 bucks of shock and chlorinate to get the pool to even 10-15 ppm. The rest of the year, even if we don't add any chlorine or a minimal amount, we won't see any algae forming. I did end up using some Yellow Trine to kill off the yellow algae, and it worked beautifully. But I did end up using the entire bottle. 3 LB (98% Sodium Bromide).
After reading Donldson's Post. It all makes sense to me now. Yes I was 100% confused on how it actually worked. It makes perfect sense now. Thank you. I personally think that should be added to pool school, because that would of helped me a great deal before I purchased this cr@p back then.
My biggest issues with my pool. I can't drain. No one uses the pool EVER. And yellow algae comes around once a year (this time)
Readings as of today. (After recent shock)
FC: 2 (Going to buy more chlorine today)
pH: 8+ (Need more acid)
TA: 120 (When I first took over it was at around 200).
CH: 825 (We were getting water from the Colorado river due to the drought) So scaling is a huge issue. Nothing I can do about that.
CYA: 90-100? maybe less maybe more, that black dot test is the bane of my existence.
So yea, it's all screwed up. And because we've been using pucks for such a long time before I took over. And all the pool equipment problems. I've been struggling to say the least. And now this freaking Sodium Bromide issue came creeping out of no where.
I've decided to buy a personal water pump. And pump water out of my pool into the garden, tree's and bushes (and turn off the sprinkler system) 1 hour a day, and slowly refill the pool.
Until CYA is at 50, and CH is at 400 at least. Because I really don't see any other choice. And i'm spending an arm and a leg on chlorine.
I guess my final questions are...
Since you can't measure sodium bromide, and I've dumped 3lb of it awhile back.
How much should i worry about it?
How much sodium bromide does it take before the entire pool converts to a bromine pool?
I'm thinking since I've already decided to slowly recycle my pool water, it should probably take care of it's self.