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It's my understanding that CH isn't as big of a thing to monitor in fiberglass pools. Both my installer and a company I had test my water at the beginning on a spectrometer. Is that correct? It tested today at 150ppm and Pool Math says the "ideal range" is 350-550. I haven't done anything for...

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Just a general question, no specifics. Can CYA increase without adding anything to the water? Or does a CYA "increase" without chemicals just exhibit an error with the testing? I know the CYA testing is somewhat the most "subjective" (when exactly does the black dot disappear?), so if you...

That's what I was kind of getting at: Is it as simple as the water flow really just isn't enough at 1800rpm or it SHOULD be running at 1800rpm so something else must be going on. No one has jumped in to say that 1800rpm should be enough, so it must not be. I'll ramp up the RPM when I need to...

Quick post: My heater is saying that the water flow rate is too low to operate when my pump is running at 1800rpm. The max on it is 3450rpm. Filter doesn't need cleaned out. Pump is a good 50 feet (maybe more) from the skimmer. Any thoughts? Thanks!

So I have concrete streaks and a film from the sticky stuff that the concrete forms had on them all around the edge of my pool. I bought the standard Mr. Clean Magic Eraser, but it didn't do anything. Any suggestions? Thanks!

Tested today as my son is having friends over on Saturday. If I need to add any chemicals, I wanted to do it today. pH - 7.8 FC - 5.5 CC - 0 TC - 5.5 Calcium Hardness - 200 Total Alkalinity - 100 CYA - 50 Salt - 3400 Water Temp - 72 degrees Pool Math is recommending 30 lbs of Calcium Chloride...

The temperature was at 78 degrees when I was out there a few minutes ago and the low salt light was on.

No worries! I appreciate all of the help and feedback!

What production rate (not sure if that's the right term) should my SWG be on? Right now it's only at 2% because my chlorine had been high (much higher than the 7.5ppm it's at currently).

My testing kit showed 3400 ppm (assuming that I'm doing it correctly, haha). The SWG does have the Red light on indicating that the salt level is low.

Thanks to everyone for the help. Signature has been updated and completed the rest of the items for setting up my account. So, where does that leave me, haha? Don't trust the SWG Manual it sounds like. Chlorine and CYA are fine for right now. So I'm just adding some salt to bring that up to...

My SWG Manual recommends 2.0 to 4.0 ppm and a CYA of 30 - 50 ppm. So they are both high according to the Manual. Also, I'm new.

My SWG is a Pentair Intellichlor IC20. This is what it has for "Optimum Pool Water Chemistry Conditions for Salt Water Pools": Free Chlorine - 2.0 - 4.0 ppm Combined Chlorine - None pH - 7.2 - 7.8 CYA - 30 - 50 ppm TA - 80 - 120 ppm Calcium - 200 - 400 ppm Salt - 3600 - 4500 ppm (ideal 3600 ppm)