Chlorinators And Ag Pools

[angelfishgurl]

Hello everyone,

We recently moved into a new home which has an exsiting 15ft round AG pool. I have a little knowledge about pools and water chemistry from working summers in a retail pool store. I know that too much stabilizer is a problem, and that it is found in chlorine pucks. The system we inherited has a Hayward chlorinator and a Nature 2 filter.

After opening the pool and balancing the water, we put pucks in the clorinator and set it at 3. After the next next test the stabilizer was at 45ppm, so we shut it off. After testing today, having had the chlorinator off for more than a week, we are at 75ppm, and have to drain and add fresh water.

In my opinion a chlorinator is too much for a pool the size we have. Does anyone else have one on an AG pool?

Thank You.

[PaulR]

Chlorinators in general are not a great idea. In a small pool like yours it's easy to get the stabilizer up much too high. I wouldn't use them for normal chlorination because of the stabilizer issues you mentioned.

They are handy when you go on vacation, so it's worth getting to know how yours behaves. Probably 1 puck on the minimum setting would maintain your FC for about a week, as a guess.

--paulr

[angelfishgurl]

Thanks PaulR. I don't want to try to use it again for the rest of this season, but I like your one puck suggestion which is something to try next summer.

[britinusa]

We also have a 15ft AG pool with a nature 2.

It is not a filter as such, it is a purifier that uses minerals to purify the water so you do not need as much chlorine.

I agree that you do not need an auto chlorination system.