high salt usage

[woody99]

Has anyone had to enlarge the trough in a situation like this and what were the results? Woody

[Poolsean]

Woody,
You've got to remember that with the ChlorKing unit, maintaining salinity at 5000 ppm, means you're having to add 40% more salt than you would with most other salt systems that operate at 3000 ppm. The fact is, if you don't have a water leak, you're loosing water somewhere else in the system.

Sounds like it would mostly likely be due to the heavy bather loads that splashes and drags out the salt with them. To maintain 5000 ppm, you should adding 84 lbs of salt for every 2000 gallons of water added from the water losses (but not from evaporation). If your salt bags are 40 lbs, then it's possible that you're loosing 1000 gallons of water daily, from splash out, bathing suit drag out, and run off water that's not going into the trough. Then there's the question on how frequently you're backwashing your filter!?

[kelemvor]

Is there no way to measure how much water the autofill is adding (or how much is been added to it)? Seems like if you were really losing that much water it would lead to high water bills too unless you've got your own well.

[woody99]

the auto fill is just water , we add the salt manually.