bassfisher

water should be balanced according to your ACE instructions and up to temperature(100+ degrees) before any salt is added...getting your calcium withing the recommended range of 25-100ppm is most important, if your filling with standard tap water most likely you will need 1 or 2 vanishing act bags...if your house is setup so that you can fill with soft water than you may be within range or can add calcium booster to bring it up. The best way to test your water is with a Taylor K-2006 drop test kit. My Taylor kit shows the hardness right at 5 drops 50ppm and the alk at 80ppm. Exactly on target with the ACE instructions. I will go buy some PH indicator and verify the strip reading. The dealer told me to add salt and then do the vanishing act when we initially filled it. The vanishing act brought down the hardness from 150PPM to 50PPM. It ran about 2 days with the ACE on before using the vanishing act. Should I just drain the tub and start over or do you have other advice. Never had this much trouble with my saltwater pool.

I also just bought a Grandee with the Ace system and must have something wrong because I get no chlorine no matter how many times I press the boost feature. The only thing I see that I might have done wrong was add the salt before I used the vanishing act. I have usage of 2 adults for about 15-30 minutes a night. I have been using regular chlorine to get it up to 3ppm before every soak and then the next day I check the chlorine it is back to zero. I went 3 days without using it and boosting it and no chlorine shows up on the strip. Hardness measures at 50PPm and TA 80PPM using test kit. Salt is in the middle of the green level. I was out of the PH indicator but my strips measure 7.4. I am going to buy a whole new test kit and go from there first.