Managing the Ballast Water

[Rick Webb]

Perhaps someone else has tried this. I was just thinking as I used pool chlorine to clean some lines to use it for the ballast tank as well. Then I thought I could use the test strips or even take a water sample to my local pool guy to keep it stable and clean. I'll ask my pool guy if his computer program will work for 125 gallons or maybe we can use 1250 and the divide the amounts of chemicals to be added by 10.

This has to be better than adding a gallon of liquid bleach when I fill the tank and every six months or when I remember adding more.

 

[BrianW]

Swimming Pool Chlorine

Rick, liquid swimming pool chlorine is nothing but double strength laundry bleach. I'm not sure about how salt water affects the chlorine test chemicals, however.

If you take a sample to a pool supply store, they will test for free.

The following link will lead you to a chlorine calculator. I recommnend at least 20 PPM chlorine as a "shock" treatment and keep it at 5 ppm. Using the calculator for 125 gallons and a desired chlorine level of 20 ppm, the calculator indicates 0.05 gallons of liquid pool chlorine. This translates to 10 oz. of laundry bleach.

Me, I just dump in a half pint of laundry bleach or a few ounces of dry swimming pool chlorine when I smell a skanky odor in my H26's ballast (every few months).

BrianW

 

[George]

Water Ballast

And this clorine water ends up where??