SWG Install and Opening Help

[reaton]

I moved into my house last August and purchased the TF Pro testing kit. When I moved in all my levels were good, so the only thing I had to add the rest of the season was liquid chlorine once weekly. I did purchase refills for my TF Pro and also added in the extra dropper bottles that come with the TF Pro Salt kit, but I didn't buy the TF Pro Salt kit since I already had the other one.

We just opened the pool and are getting a SWG and variable speed pump installed tomorrow. My question is, how do I go about treating the water to open it? The pool people said to get my Ph in the right spot and then shock. He also said the SWG won't actually produce chlorine for a while until the water temperature gets above 50 degrees. I'm in southern Pennsylvania, so April and May don't get too warm. Do I need to SLAM with shock from the store? Just a boatload of liquid chlorine? Once I finish the SLAM will I need to continue with liquid chlorine until the water warms up? I've never opened a pool before, and I don't know if doing this conversion at the beginning of the season makes a difference or not. I'm going to scoop, skim, and brush today just to clean up the visible debris before anything is running.

Any step by step help to get my pool back up and running crystal clear would be awesome. I have read these forums last year and they did help a lot. I appreciate any help that is given.

Inground Pool Dimensions: 16ft x 32ft
Vinyl liner
20k gallons
Pentair IC-40 SWG
Pentair SuperFlo Variable speed pump

 

[duraleigh]

for us to help, it will be best if you post a current, complete set of test results, Once you provide that "starting point", lot's of folks will be willing to help.

 

[Newdude]

Hey reaton and belated Welcome !!!

1) mix for a day

2) get a FC baseline after the first 30 mins and bring the FC to 10. If the CYA depleted over the winter it's still safe and if you still have moderate CYA from last year, it's a healthy buffer above min.

3) get a good CYA reading after mixing 24 hours. Remeber you want overhead sun so it may have to wait for your schedule and the weather.

4) report back with full test results

 

[reaton]

Ok I'll remove debris and let the new motor run for 24 hours, then do a test and report back with my results. My last results before closing at the end of October had my CYA at 50, so we'll see where it went from there.

 

[Newdude]

Hows the pool look ? Is it green, a little hazy, some algae growing on the steps (etc) ?

Explain and post up some pics too.

 

[reaton]

Turns out the pump and SWG was a little too much for the current breaker setup so I'm getting that squared away. Hopefully I'll get the pump running and test results shortly after Easter.

 

[Newdude]

Turns out the pump and SWG was a little too much for the current breaker setup so I'm getting that square D

^^^^^ i see what you did there.

 

[reaton]

Well, before we deal with actually treating the water I need to get this electric situation taken care of. I have a QO Square D panel that previously only has 1 line out to the pool area. It was on a 20 amp GFCI breaker. This breaker trips within 3-5 seconds when the pump turns on and starts to spin up. I've read that the pentair VS pumps need to be on a dedicated 2 pole 20 amp specialized siemans breaker, and the SWG also needs to be on it's own dedicated 1 pole 15 or 20 amp breaker. Does anyone has any experience with this situation and what would be the simplest correct solution to it?