6
Balance the Water
To find out if your pool water is balanced:
• take a water sample to your dealer to be tested regularly, or
• ask your dealer to recommend a pool test kit for water balance.
Element: pH
Range:
7.4-7.8
Element: Calcium Hardness
Range:
200-400 ppm
Element: Total Alkalinity
Range:
80-150 ppm
If it’s too low:
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The surface of your pool can become etched.
Metal parts in the pump and plumbing will corrode.
Add pH increaser.
“Scale” forms on the surface of your pool.
The water can become cloudy.
Equipment can become damaged.
Add pH decreaser.
Water is less stable.
In plaster pools, the calcium is taken out of the plaster,
causing the surface to deteriorate.
Add calcium hardness increaser.
Rough, discolored deposits (“scale”) will form on the
pool surface and inside pool equipment.
Drain or dilute the pool water.
Consult your dealer.
It provides no buffer so that you constantly get
fluctuating pH readings, which can damage equipment
and pool surfaces.
Use an alkalinity increaser.
White deposits (“scale”) form on the tile line.
The plaster on pool surface becomes rough or
discolored.
The water becomes cloudy or milky white.
Add acid to bring alkalinity down.
Install the Cartridge
1.
Install the cartridge into your pool filter after water is balanced.
2.
Superoxidize the pool
water with chlorine according to manufacturer’s instructions to burn off
contaminants and activate cartridge.
Important:
Initial superoxidation with chlorine is required to burn off contaminants and activate cartridge.
3.
Run the circulating pump
either:
• 24 hours a day for 4 days, maintaining 1-2 ppm free chlorine throughout, or
• 6 hours a day for 14 days, maintaining 1-2 ppm free chlorine throughout.
4.
Let chlorine dissipate
to 0.5 ppm once start up period is completed.
• Do not enter the pool if the free available chlorine residual is over 3 ppm.
