Hot Tub Forum
Original => Hot Tub Forum => Topic started by: spa-ing on January 30, 2007, 04:35:34 pm
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We left over the holidays and were gone three straight weeks. The hot tub was left on, 102 degrees, and no one did a thing to it. Before we left I filled the bromine floater with 4 pellets and checked the levels (all fine). I might have shocked it but that's it. We returned and the water was perfect. All levels (including bromine NORMAL). I am puzzled as to how this could be. Does it use less bromine when no one is in it? I was thinking we'd come home to a cloudy pool of goo, but it was crystal clear, good to go. wild.
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Clear water does not equate to good water, battery acid is very clear but I am not sitting in it. ;)
Bromine tablets will typically bring the pH down and low pH can cause clear water.
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Bromine tablets will typically bring the pH down and low pH can cause clear water.
I'm not so sure about this statement but I agree with the spirit. I believe clear water is more an indication of proper sanitization than just low pH...but I also think that Gary makes a very good point...check your water balance indicators and tell us what they say. I agree with Gary that your pH is probably depressed somewhat...not a issue for soaking if your water is indeed sanitized but certainly an issue for your pumps and associated equipment. Considering you were introducing bromine during the 3 weeks but not introducing contaminants, it is reasonable to believe that the water is clean but testing for bromine would be important.
spa-ing, after re-reading your post, if indeed all of your levels, including bromine, are normal, I'd say you are all set!
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yes, all levels were fine, including pH. That's what I posted.
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Does your tub have ozone and/or N2?
I use only dichlor and have shocked my tub and then left it for 17+ days with nothing else added other than O3 and N2 and it has done fine.
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Does your tub have ozone and/or N2?
He's on bromine, so N2 wouldn't work.