[KevinK]

I’m bailing at this time, and sometimes have a hard time balancing things out, I run it on a BM dozer, so it should be easy to balance, but for some reason, it douse not work for me that well.

for this reason I’m debating to go with kalkwasser, as that is already balanced, and douse not break the bank, to get started with it, as I have dozers, PH control and such.

in general, there is much I have read, and all makes sense.... when used as top off, you add it slowly, and it is already balanced.

now the thing I don't understand is:

when bailing, you match the calcium you put in the tank, to the need of the tank, yet using kalkwasser it is somewhat general 2 teaspoons per gallon of top off water.

this means that when topping off, 2 gallon, I ad 4 teaspoons of lime, yet when topping off 3 gallon I ad 6,

in tis scenario my tank itself (the calcium it consumes) is the same, so in fact 6 minus-4 is 2 teaspoon's of lime is excess, so what happens with that, douse this bring everything out of whack, or will it gust flake out.

reason for the part that I don't understand is because seemingly the addition of calcium is not tied to the consumption, but to the evaporation.

the fact that adding limewater to fast, could rays PH out of whack is clear, so gust slow on with the dosing, it is the amount of actual product dosing in total, that I don't get.

because if it would just keep adding the more it will rais ( should it not be dosed by need, not by evaporation ), not ?

or has it to do with the amount of C02 in the tank that controls what happens with the excess lime : as long as I go slow and there is enough, it would always even out and not bring everything out of whack, yet once there is not enough C02, that is when it brings everything out of whack

on the end I just want to understand this, because I have fluctuating water needs for top off, when we put the wood burning fire place on, I need about 3/4 gallon more than when only regular house heating, and thus when the fireplace is on, i would add more lime, while the tank and its consumption has nothing to do with the fireplace