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guardrail22

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Artesian South Seas 965L w/iFrog
« on: April 19, 2018, 12:09:38 am »
For those who have one, what do you set your chlorine and silver cartridges to?

We are fine on total chlorine with silver on 6 but can’t maintain free level with chlorine on 3. 525 gal of water filtering four hours every 12.

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Artesian South Seas 965L w/iFrog
« on: April 19, 2018, 12:09:38 am »

castletonia

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Re: Artesian South Seas 965L w/iFrog
« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2018, 07:06:22 am »
That’s a big hot tub, I would up the chlorine to 5.

guardrail22

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Re: Artesian South Seas 965L w/iFrog
« Reply #2 on: April 22, 2018, 12:26:37 am »
Set at 5 and still filtering 4 hours out of 12.

Standby

What’s anyone else doing?

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Re: Artesian South Seas 965L w/iFrog
« Reply #3 on: April 22, 2018, 06:41:23 am »
For those who have one, what do you set your chlorine and silver cartridges to?

We are fine on total chlorine with silver on 6 but can’t maintain free level with chlorine on 3. 525 gal of water filtering four hours every 12.

How much use?
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guardrail22

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Re: Artesian South Seas 965L w/iFrog
« Reply #4 on: April 23, 2018, 06:18:29 pm »
Nightly for 60 minutes or so.

Hottubguy

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Re: Artesian South Seas 965L w/iFrog
« Reply #5 on: April 23, 2018, 07:05:47 pm »
How often do you shock?

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Re: Artesian South Seas 965L w/iFrog
« Reply #6 on: April 24, 2018, 01:42:58 pm »
Instructions say one per month

Been running one per week?

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Re: Artesian South Seas 965L w/iFrog
« Reply #7 on: April 24, 2018, 02:35:31 pm »
Once a month is not enough, regardless of what the directions state.  Weekly is what I tell my customers.

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Re: Artesian South Seas 965L w/iFrog
« Reply #8 on: April 24, 2018, 04:37:55 pm »
Agree once a month isn’t enough. Especially with how often you use the spa.

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Re: Artesian South Seas 965L w/iFrog
« Reply #9 on: April 25, 2018, 07:06:03 pm »
Yep, you are considered a heavy bather load.  Max out the smart chlor cartridge number (can't remember if it's 5 or 6) for that size hot tub and supplement with a tsp of dichlor maybe after every other use.

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Re: Artesian South Seas 965L w/iFrog
« Reply #10 on: April 26, 2018, 04:21:28 pm »
Moved chlorine to 6

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Re: Artesian South Seas 965L w/iFrog
« Reply #11 on: April 26, 2018, 07:11:51 pm »
Moved chlorine to 6

Yeah, that's considered a very large hot tub.  You also may need to supplement with small doses of dichlor as well.  The good news is that dichlor is cheap and we're talking a couple of teaspoons after heavy use.

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Re: Artesian South Seas 965L w/iFrog
« Reply #12 on: April 29, 2018, 03:09:29 pm »
So the tech has had me superchlorinate two nights running. Tonight is shock only, then going to see how it holds.

Test strip had been showing 4-5 total CL and very little free.

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Re: Artesian South Seas 965L w/iFrog
« Reply #13 on: April 29, 2018, 04:23:46 pm »
So the tech has had me superchlorinate two nights running. Tonight is shock only, then going to see how it holds.

Test strip had been showing 4-5 total CL and very little free.

Sounds like you are also using the wrong test strips. Need to use the @ease ones for accurate readings

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Re: Artesian South Seas 965L w/iFrog
« Reply #14 on: April 30, 2018, 12:48:37 pm »
I just got the Tropic Seas Tahiti Elite which I believe is almost the same tub. (550 gals). I think I am set to 5 on smartchlor and 6 on mineral. Only been a few days but so far so good. I had water tested and added a whole bunch of chems before I put the cartridges in. Also used the start-up packet when I added the cartridges. I will keep you posted on my progress. I am expecting the smartchlor to last at least a month. I do use the @ease test strips.

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Re: Artesian South Seas 965L w/iFrog
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