pH keeps creeping up

[Amir]

Richard,
your links don't work! Would you please repost the links.
Regards

Amir

[fcfrey]

Richard / Amir

I just tried all of the links --- They work just fine. The first 4 are statistical charts not graphical but if you are skilled in Excel you could convert them if you wanted to. The last 2 links are logrithmic graphs.

All these should be Printed, Framed and kept where you can refer to them regularly. They are EXTRE E E E E MLY useful.

Quick related question for Richard, does aeration reduce pH along with TA?

Frank

[Amir]

Frank,
You are right! they work in internet Explorer but not in Firefox! I am not a big fan of microsfot so Firefox is what I used first and tried IE after your post.
Regards

Amir

[chem geek]

Amir,

I use Firefox on the Mac and the links work fine so this must be something specifically wrong with Firefox on a PC -- very strange.

Frank,

Aeration only causes the pH to rise by the outgassing of carbon dioxide. It does not change the TA. When you add acid, then that lowers both pH and TA so the combination of the two is a net result of lowering TA. Carl explains this here and I have a chart about this here.

Richard

[fcfrey]

I don't know why I said "lower pH" I knew that it didn't do that. DAH!!
Thanks Richard,

I checked my pool test log spreadsheet from last year and the year before that and I see where we had a very minimal amount of pH rise last year unless there was rain or "rug rat" activity, but then it seemed to stabilize without acid addition. I will watch it for a while to see where it goes.

I will be discontinuing the use of the Bleach pump for a couple of weeks while I use some pucks to get the CYA up to 30. Right now it is below the capability of my test equipment but I believe it is around 20 ppm. If the pool is uncovered all day the FC depletion goes to around 3-4 ppm so I think a bit more CYA will be in order.

Thanks for your thoughts on the pH, after searching and finding a lot of pools getting several pints a day, I do not feel too bad.

By the way, NO!! I do not add anything surrepticiously that Jakebear is unaware of (See post #8).

I value my life

[mariner09]

I also use Firefox 2.0 on Linux and the links display just fine.

[Amir]

I run firfox on PC. I even copy and pasted the link
http://richardfalk.home.comcast.net/pool/FC.htm
and got "can not find server"
I can get to his site
http://home.comcast.net/~richardfalk...tml--logo.html
but not to the links with firefox!!
amir