Revised planning calculator
Pool Salt Calculator
Salt increase with nominally pure pool-grade sodium chloride. Obtain the target from your generator manual; the tool does not select it.
Enter your measured values
Salt increase with nominally pure pool-grade sodium chloride. Obtain the target from your generator manual; the tool does not select it.
Use decimals, simple fractions such as 1/4, or grouped commas such as 10,000. Blank or invalid values never become defaults.
Method, supported products, and references
Concentration is approximated as mg/L. US gallons × 3.785411784 × selected ppm increase / 1000 gives grams of the measured constituent. Alkalinity and hardness use calcium-carbonate-equivalent conversion, then divide by the selected product assay. Ounces and pounds are weight units, never fluid volume.
Pool-grade sodium chloride at nominal 100% purity, without additives. Use the target specified by your actual salt generator manual.
Testing and measurement
Start with reliable information
Use a salt strip, digital salt meter, or the salt-cell reading after the pump has circulated.
Keep the product label available, never mix pool chemicals together, and ask a qualified pool professional if you are unsure how to interpret a reading.
Companion Guide
Maintaining Salt Levels in a Texas Salt Water Pool
The companion guide remains available for background reading. Its examples are not a personalized dose or a substitute for product instructions.
Read the guide