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Water Maintenance Question
Newhottubuser23:
Hello - I recently got my hot tub up and running about 2 weeks ago. I have an inline frogease smartchlor with minerals system. The water had a faint odor so I did a test strip and while the alkalinity and pH tested normal, the chlorine tested low. I checked my inline system and realized I never set the smartchlor or minerals to a setting - they were both on 0 :-[. I’ve remedied that and they are both at their appropriate settings. What is the best way to jumpstart the chlorine? Should I get another frogease starter pack? I definitely feel like an idiot! Thanks for any help!
castletonia:
The Frog jumpstart is just dichlor so you could get that or just get a small bottle of dichlor that way you have some on hand if you ever need it. Or regular un-scented bleach would work too.
Tman122:
--- Quote from: Newhottubuser23 on December 13, 2018, 06:55:23 pm ---Hello - I recently got my hot tub up and running about 2 weeks ago. I have an inline frogease smartchlor with minerals system. The water had a faint odor so I did a test strip and while the alkalinity and pH tested normal, the chlorine tested low. I checked my inline system and realized I never set the smartchlor or minerals to a setting - they were both on 0 :-[. I’ve remedied that and they are both at their appropriate settings. What is the best way to jumpstart the chlorine? Should I get another frogease starter pack? I definitely feel like an idiot! Thanks for any help!
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Yea just Dichlor, You should have some anyway for any heavy load or decontaminate situations. Use it to get 10 PPM or better once a month or more often depending on load. How much does it filter daily?
bradleyabell:
Like others already said, throw a little dichlor in the tub and you will be fine!
MarKee:
I think he has a Marquis that defaults at filtration 2 hours twice a day at 80gpm, and also it has a 1 hour clean-up cycle (total of 24,000 gallons per day when used). That should be enough. The water should look/smell good with a nice dichlor dose like everyone else mentioned. Enjoy the tub!
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