October 30th, 2011 by Elise 
No Comments We start the second day of our CPO class with the homework review. Did somebody say, “Homework? Ugh!” Well, yes, it IS school — AND there is HOMEWORK!–sorry….you’ve got to practice those math problems to do well on the exam–it’s a fact! After the homework review, we spend some time online showing the students the National Swimming Pool Foundation’s website. We also introduce our [...]
September 13th, 2011 by Steve No Comments We had a little surprise occur during our CPO class this past Thursday and Friday, September 8-9, at PoolCorp’s SCP store! At 3:45 p.m. on Thursday, the lights went out – literally. The whole power grid went down in all of San Diego County and parts of Mexico and southern Orange County. When the power went down in our classroom, there was no more projector, [...]
July 10th, 2011 by Steve 1 Comment It’s already July, 2011 — and this year is more than half over. Time is just FLYING by as we have fun teaching CPO classes! Last Monday was July 4, and we celebrated our country’s Independence Day with family and friends with picnics and fireworks. As a nation, we have declared ourselves to be independent and sovereign now for 235 years…..but that freedom has not [...]
June 6th, 2011 by Steve No Comments The new NSPF Pool & Spa Operator Handbook - 2011 Edition – from the National Swimming Pool Foundation has been updated to include a GREAT overview of the Virginia Graeme Baker Pool and Spa Safety Act (aka “P&SS Act”). This law was signed by President Bush on December 19, 2007 and compliance was mandatory for all public pools after December 19, 2008. The overview in the [...]
May 3rd, 2011 by Steve No Comments Part of the CPO class curriculum is Chapter 3 of the CPO Handbook, entitled “Essential Calculations.” On page 25 of Chapter 3, is a chart of “Useful Conversions and Constants” (right). We go over each and every item in the chart and really drill down on some items in particular, such as BTU, PPM, PSI, as well as “Water Column” (the item circled). Did you ever wonder just [...]
April 17th, 2011 by Steve 2 Comments As we were going through the chemical dosage exercises in our CPO class this past Thursday and Friday at Superior Pool Products in Anaheim, the question was asked, “Is there a general formula that we can use to add chemicals to the pool?” In class we use a worksheet (developed by the Foundation) that simplifies the elementary algebra — and reduces it to simple [...]
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