Artesian South Seas 965L w/iFrog

[guardrail22]

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.

[castletonia]

That’s a big hot tub, I would up the chlorine to 5.

[guardrail22]

Set at 5 and still filtering 4 hours out of 12.

Standby

What’s anyone else doing?

[Tman122]

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?

[guardrail22]

Nightly for 60 minutes or so.

[Hottubguy]

How often do you shock?

[guardrail22]

Instructions say one per month

Been running one per week?

[castletonia]

Once a month is not enough, regardless of what the directions state.  Weekly is what I tell my customers.

[Hottubguy]

Agree once a month isn’t enough. Especially with how often you use the spa.

[Sam]

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.

[guardrail22]

Moved chlorine to 6

[Sam]

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.

[guardrail22]

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.

[Hottubguy]

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

[fraff2]

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.