r/hottubs 10h ago

Over chlorinated - 1st rookie mistake and lessons learned

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So I goofed up yesterday. I've had my Caldera Seychelles Freshwater Salt system for 6 days. I measured with my Taylor kit and combined chlorine was a bit high - 0.6ppm. So I knew I needed to add more Concentrates Chlorine to burn it off. Unfortunately I added 2 capfuls or about 4x the amount needed. My Free chlorine of course spiked to 16ppm. I used hydrogen peroxide (~6 tbs) to try and bring it down along with running the jets. I got it down to 7ppm after about 1.5 hours and ran out of time before bed and closed it up. AI said to make sure and turn the salt generator back on overnight. Woke up to 6ppm Fcl. I bet I made 10 chlorine measurements with the Taylor kit...probably 3 months worth in one night.

Lessons learned:

1) I really shouldn't need to add chlorinating concentrate. The salt system could have just been boosted.

2) I should have tip-toed. If anything i should have added 1 capful of cc, waited and measured. Then I would have only been 2x too much

3) All in all it has been on the money for all measurements: alk, ph, etc., and a slight bump in chloramines shouldn't have made me knee-jerk react so quickly. Easy does it.

Oh well, maybe this will help other newbs.