Salt pool calculator

How much pool salt to add for your salt chlorine generator.
Salt now
ppm
Your salt cell turns salt into chlorine. It needs the level its manual asks for.
Salt you want
ppm
Good range: 2,700–3,400 ppm. Your salt cell's manual has the exact number.
Using pool salt.
Type your pool's size and its salt reading.

How this is worked out

Pool salt is plain sodium chloride, so the arithmetic is simple: raising 10,000 gallons by 100 ppm takes about 8.3 lb of salt. We multiply that out for your pool.
Salt only leaves when water does — splashing, backwashing, rain overflow — so a salt pool needs a top-up now and then, not every week.
The product label always wins — if it says something different, follow the label.

Questions

What salt level does my pool need?

Most salt cells want between 2,700 and 3,400 ppm, often 3,200. Your cell's manual (or the label on the cell) has the exact number — use that as the target.

My salt is too high. What do I add?

Nothing takes salt out. Replace some of the water with fresh water — this calculator tells you roughly how much.

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