wrote:
On 10 Jan 2007 07:53:20 -0800, "basskisser"
wrote:

But remember, those pucks have stabilizer in the form of cyuranic acid,
the higher the cya,


I keep an eye on the stabilizer level. You are right, when it gets too
high the amount of total chlorine necessary to get the free chlorine
up is excessive. We get so much rain here that the chemicals wash out
pretty fast. It is not unusual to get 12" of rain in a day or two in
the summer. In the winter I can cut back on my pucks to one a week or
less. I still whack it with the bleach once a week.

And if you get algae, and the pool store tries to sell you an
algaecide, all you need to do is keep your chlorine up to shock level
for a few days, and the algae will die! No more blonde hair turning
green because of copper from algaecide! If you look at the URL's I gave
you, there is a "best guess" table that shows the free chlorine and
shock levels for any given amount of CYA.