Hot Tub Forum
Original => Hot Tub Forum => Topic started by: Gibson00 on November 22, 2021, 05:21:37 pm
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Hi all, just took delivery of our new Arctic Spa. I'm a bit rusty on taking care of the water quality.
I plan to do dichlor to bleach method, and pretty comfy with how that works.
I have a taylor kit, but just starting off trying to get things with test strips.
Please see the attached pics.
For the test strip pic:
top row is ph
next is free chlorine
next is alkalinity
next is stabilizer
We threw a full cap of boost powder in to shock, so thus the high chlorine.
For the top row, I assume I need to add some ph down?
Alkalinity looks about OK?
I can't remember what stabilizer is!
The chemicals I have are:
ArcticPure Adjust Up
ArcticPure Boost
ArcticPure Refresh
ArcticPure Adjust Down
https://ibb.co/d0wDZxX
https://ibb.co/SvGZLBh
Please advise one what I should use. Thanks!!!
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Oh, I also have a bottle of ArcticPure Perfect Balance, which I see is for the Alkalinity...
But still not sure what the low stabilizer reading is pointing to or what to do about it
EDIT - OK, is the stabilizer CYA? And will that just come up on its own after the chlorine starts working?
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Dichlor has CYA in it so yea........Cyunaric acid (spelling) When it gets high enough switch to bleach.
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Dichlor has CYA in it so yea........Cyunaric acid (spelling) When it gets high enough switch to bleach.
Thanks. Yup, I think I have the dichlor to bleach schedule ready. I just couldn't remember if I needed to do anything right away to raise the 'stabilizer' level showing on the test strip. But I guess that will come up on its own after a few doses of chlorine and CYA starts to climb.
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I switch from dichlor to bleach when the CYA hits 50ppm and when it drops to 30 I switch back to dichlor. This method
has worked for me for many years.
I find 1/3 cup of household bleach = 1 tablespoon of dichlor.