The following article is from Kim Skinner — part of the research team of onBalance. I received this via email from Kim a few days ago. Enjoy. __________________________________________________________________________ By Kim …
Manually Adding Chemicals to the Pool
Chapter 9 of our Pool & Spa Operator™Handbook is all about adding chemicals to the swimming pool; using automated controllers/feeders or adding them manually. Before you even approach a pool with …
Pool Water Balance
What is balanced pool water? Balanced water is when calcium carbonate does not precipitate out of the water and stick to the plaster, plumbing, heater and ev erything else in …
Available Chlorine Content
On page 50 of our Pool & Spa Operator Handbook in chapter 5, there is an excellent chart that lists all the chlorine compounds and their respective characteristics/properties. One of the properties listed …
Salt Water Chlorine Generators
We need chlorine in our swimming pools to disinfect the water and to oxidize the contaminants. Various chlorine compounds are available to the Pool Operator/Owner: liquid chlorine, quick dissolve granular (Dichlor), …
Flow Rate and Water Velocity
We finished out the year of 2011 at PoolCorp’s Superior Pool Products building in Anaheim this past Thursday and Friday (December 8-9). The CPO students were energetic and ready to learn about …
You Need to Know How Much Water is in the Pool !
When you maintain a swimming pool – residential or commercial – you MUST know how much water is in it. If you know how much water is the the pool, you …
GFCI (Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter) vs. Circuit Breaker
When we are in Chapter 14 (Facility Safety) of the Pool & Spa Operator Handbook, discussing electrical safety during our CPO® class, we talk about the difference between a Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter (GFCI) …
Grounding and Bonding – What’s the difference?
Halloween will soon be here, and Betty Davis, the Accounts Receivable Manager at PoolCorp’s SCP store in Riverside, is always ready. She has a tradition of decorating her office to the …
TriChlor and DiChlor — What do they have in common?
Chlorine is an element of nature – it is number 17 in group 17 (Halogens) on the Periodic Chart of the Elements. It is a gas in its elemental …