Recent content by Blowout

Thanks for the reply! Yes, I also leave it in the stenner all year round.

Very helpful... I've stored cheaply purchased bleach for up to a year. It was only $2.50/gal. Figured it was degrading but had no idea the concentration dropped that fast. I assume this data would be chlorine in sealed plastic containers. Wonder how much faster it degrades in a vented Stenner...

11 years ago got rid of the Polaris after we had the pool resurfaced and decking upgraded to travertine. Bought a TurboT robot which lasted 9.5yrs and bought another to replace it when the pump died. Left all the plumbing in place for the polaris, but I can't see ever going back. The Polaris...

Last cover I bought was the cheapest/lightest on the list: Sun2Solar 800. It only made it one year before it disintegrated. Usually the mid-grade lasts 2 years before it's tossed. They do cut down on evaporation and the temp gets into the low 90's when it's on. I get to turn down the chlorine...

The objective of the swim jets is to stay in one place while swimming and each swimmer is likely to want a different setting. The flow gauge was probably used to determine a setting for the swim jets. It looks like a Pentair variable speed pump on the system. If its just used for a fountain...

Maybe a better comparison is the kWh usage over a month's period of time. 15.77 kWh avg this particular month with a temperature range between 75F to 96F as a high. .................................................. ...

Thought I'd share some of the ways I was able to reduce our electric bill without adding solar panels. We have PG&E and folks on the Nextdoor forum with a pool are complaining of electrical bills coming close to $1,000/month and most are about half that. Our monthly bill is under $130/M. -...

Check to make sure your strainer isn't getting filled with debris. The Pentair variable speed pump has a feedback to detect a blocked drain. As if someone got their hair sucked into the drain and the pump would sense it and automatically shut off. Just a thought. I haven't got around to...

Used to throw it in the yard to compost. After spreading walking bark across the entire backyard for water conservation and to make it look nice, I now throw it in a garbage can that gets picked up as yard waste by the city.

I had a Aquabot Turbo T for 9.5 years and the pump motor just died. I finally just left the unit in the pool after yr 2 I believe. Water finally entered the motor a month ago. I have lots of leaves and it did good picking them up. In the spring the leaves accumulating in the pool is so high I...

I didn't have the oil in the motor so likely your right....that caused the black wire to burn off the motor. Even so, the motor didn't spin up as it should have in the moments before the wires burnt. It was moving slowly exactly the same as when I noticed the issue in the first place. Something...

It's a joke... when the (magic) smoke comes out, it doesn't work any more. This motor had rectifier diodes soldered to the capacitors. Pump motor Capacitor SURPRISE rectifier When I noticed the pump was running very slow, I thought the capacitors would definitely be the cause. I soldered the...

Well the pump just went on the Turbo T about 2 weeks ago. The pump stopped working. I disassembled teh pump motor tried changing out the capacitors, but when I bench tested it the magic smoke left the motor and that was that. I wasn't sure if I should replace the motor or look into a new bot...

Seems running the 2 injection systems unrelated to each other would make the most sense then. Probably dosing into the same pool return line at different times would be best as well.

The previous owner of our house told me their inline tablet chlorine feeder blew up once. Imagine it was from the accumulation of chlorine gas and the pool motor providing the ignition spark. Said it sounded like a bomb. He was in the military, so I expect he had knowledge of what a bomb sounds...