High Chlorine since adding IntelliPH to system

[PoolDoc]

. . . membership upgraded.

I have no idea why you are experiencing apparent increased efficiency . . . unless controlling pH is keeping your cell plates cleaner.

[Poolsean]

I don't think its a fair assessment to compare your ability to control the chlorine with the out of control pH vs in control, so let's deal with the current conditions. The Intellichlor operates in 6-7 LED increments, so you're not able to fine tune the output of the system unless you're running the salt system through an in-house electronic control system (like the intellitouch).
1) Are you controlling the Intellichlor through an Intellitouch?
2) How many hours per day is your pump running?
3) You mentioned that your colorQ test was different from the store test results on the pH. How much different was it?
4) Staining - What color are the stains? and do you have a heater?
5) Have you added any algaecides, clarifiers, metal removers?

[banjeman]

1. I have IntelliPH which allows me to control the intelliChlor.
2. I run it 8 hours a day (but I cut back to 7 hours just in case it was due to the amount of time i was running the system).
3. I have a Taylor 2005 kit with a Taylor DPD-DFAS for chlorine (basically turning it into a Taylor 2006 kit) AND a ColorQ. (These two differ on PH, but I trust the Taylor Kit more).
4a. The staining has been slowly developing over the last 3 years, I thought I had it under control until around February it started getting worse (I assumed is was because I wasn't controlling PH good enough so I purchased the IntelliPH to better control PH). I believe the staining is calcium buildup. I will post pictures in a couple days we have had tons of rains the last couple days, so right now I am just trying to get the rain water out of my pool. I do not attribute the staining to recent events.
4b. I do not have a heater.
5. Not recently, about 1.5 years ago I was told to use phosfree (which I did, but it seemed to make controlling my chemicals worse so I haven't added anything since). Last year I also had a pool guy improperly maintain my pool. He was treating it like a chlorine pool, even though it was a SW pool (I was out of town for a couple months). When his boss got on him he came and dumped way to much salt in the pool and I had to partially drain it because the TDS went through the roof and the Salt content was like 4800. I immediately fired them because they wanted to charge me to do a partial drain of the pool due to my high TDS which was because their tech over salted the pool.

I believe the chlorine is because I am running the pump too long and the temperature/Sun isnt hot enough. Generally in the winter months i only run it like 4 hours, maybe I jumped the gun on increasing the pump run time, because I was trying to dial in the intelliPH dosing and the percentage i figured wasn't enough so I increased run time, when i should have just increased dosage percentage.