Start Up Instructions for Your Swimming Pool's Aqua Smarte Plus Filter System

Starting up your swimming pool can be a time-consuming process involving many swimming pool supplies, particularly if you utilize an elemental filter. Are you searching for startup instructions for your swimming pool's Aqua Smarte Mineral Plus Filter System? (Pictured right is the Aqua Smarte Mineral Value Package.) Well here are your instructions:

1. Fill up the swimming pool with water to the proper level, typically right at the second screw on the faceplate.
2. Turn on the system by simply priming the pump and turning the filter on.
3. If you have well water, be sure to treat the pool water with Iron Remover (view Iron Remover here) or Metal Free (view Metal Free here). Be sure to follow the instructions on the bottles of these products before using them.
4. Test Your Swimming Pool Water: The alkalinity should be between 80ppm and 120ppm. If the alkalinity is high, add Muriatic Acid (a very volatile substance only available in stores) one gallon at a time, very carefully, with the water circulating. Wait 12 hours to swim or retest. Keep adding Muriatic Acid until the alkalinity reaches the mentioned range above. The pH balance should be between 7.2 and 7.8. If the pH is too high, add pH Reducer (view pH Reducer here). If the pH is too low, add pH Increaser (view pH Increaser here).
5. Condition Your Swimming Pool Water: Add Conditioner / Stabilizer (view Pool Conditioner here) to prevent chlorine loss due to sunlight. Place the conditioner in a sock or panty hose and tie it to the ladder. Placing conditioner inside of something that can sit in the pool is the best way to dissolve most conditioners, since they do not dissolve quickly. The ideal range is between 30ppm and 50ppm, with a safe range for swimmers up to 100ppm.
6. Start the Aqua Smarte Plus System: Be sure the Mineral Activator (pictured right; view the Aqua Smarte Mineral Activator here) and the MizerMax Pac (view the MizerMax Pacs here) are in the Aqua Smarte Plus Docking Station (view the Aqua Smarte Docking Station here) and turn the dial to around 1 or 2. Aqua Smarte MizerMax Pacs will last approximately two or three weeks, depending on the size of the pool, the amount of heat it requires and usage. The Aqua Smarte Mineral Activator needs to be replaced every season.
7. For weekly maintenance, add one pound of Pool Blast (view Pool Blast here) once a week; one pound of Blast per 10,000 gallons of pool water should be enough. Test the pool water weekly for pH, Alkalinity and Free Chlorine.
8. Phos Free: Test your water at the beginning of the swimming pool season for phosphates (view a Phosphate Test Kit here); if you find high levels, add Phosphate Reducer (only available in stores). Add Pool Magic (view Pool Magic here) and Phos Free (view Phos Free here) at the beginning and end of every swimming season, while every week adding one capful for every 8,000 gallons of Pool Perfect (view Pool Perfect here) and Phos Free a week.

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