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It was not generating. I’m adding liquid chlorine to SLAM now anyway to get rid of some algae

I heated up my spa to 80 degrees and now the salt cell is reading 3200ppm- looks like it is just struggling with the lower water temp. Everything lines up. The water is a bit colder than when I normally start trying to open the pool. Weird cold weather. We’ve been swimming in March in some years...

Thanks- salt is the only thing I used strips for but it’s always been close enough. I’ve never seen it 1000+ ppm different than what the SWG reports.

Yes water is around 60. I can heat up the spa water to see if that changes anything.

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I’m measuring around 3200ppm, but the salt cell is only reporting 2100ppm. I just went and bought fresh salt test strips but got the same result. My next step is to acid clean the SWG- could that cause this discrepancy or is the SWG just going bad?

I assumed they were calcium flakes from my SWG because the Ph was drifting too high. But I have addressed that with my acid feeder and the white flakes are just as bad, if not worse. Here are the numbers from my test today (taylor Fas-dpd test kit). Nothing seems crazy to me- in fact it seems...

One quick addition- when I first started looking at this, I removed the thermal regulator to check it and found that it was bad, so I replace it, It didn't have any impact of the behavior of the heater, though.

Hi all- I've got some time at home now with self-isolation, so I'm working on my pool equipment. My 8-year-old Mastertemp 400 won't stay lit. It's not throwing any diagnostic codes- the burner fires, but it smells bad like it is not burning right, and it even sounds wrong (deep rumble- more...

Maybe to ask this more generically, what are the ways to get something like a stubborn return fitting removed, because thats basically what these lights are? If it does require damage/removal of some plaster, how big of a deal is it to fix it?

tl;dr- I can't get my Savi Melody light out to replace it. Any tips? Long version- I have 5 Savi Melody (now owned by Jandy/Zodiac) lights in my pool. 2 of them have failed and been dead for years (pool was built in 2012). This year I finally got motivated to try to fix them, so I bought a...

Just want to make sure I’m not missing anything. I am now on day 8 of the SLAM. The water cleared up after 2-3 days, so the pool looks beautiful now but I am still losing 3-4ppm of chlorine overnight and occasionally measure 0.5 CC. Do I just need more POP (pool owner patience) or am I missing...