I have only had my SWCG for two weeks and the "official" swimming season hasn't started yet. I am watching my chemicals very closely including the pH levels. My 24' round AG pool takes direct sunlight for the majority of the day and I still consider myself to be in the Start-up mode.

Here are my Thoughts. I am not trying to be arguementative, but I am always open for a nice discussion and maybe I'll learn something along the way.

My overall philosophy is to keep all chemicals to a minimum. I have added seven 40lb bags of salt and I probably need to add another half to a full bag. I am at 3300 PPM of salt and should be at 3500 PPM according to the manual but the low salt light is out. I am reluctant to add more salt as the water already has a slight salty taste to it even though the internet says most humans cannot taste salt below 3500 PPM.

I am at approximately 40 CYA and really don't understand why a Salt system requires more that a traditional Chlorine pool. For now, my SWCG runs 8 hours a day regardless, and if my current CYA levels keep a minimum amount of chlorine in the pool until the pump kicks on and adds more chlorine, then I want to believe I'm good. But hey, they don't call me the BTDG for nothing.

As far as my previous bad experience, I can only tell you that I had my water checked repeatedly and by multiple pool stores and the response was that my water was "Picture Perfect" except for the CYA value and I still had burning eye complaints. I did drain 25 inches of water from the pool, leaving 15-16 inches of water remaining to eliminate the high CYA and still ended up with a reading of 100-110 AFTER refilling.