Recent content by ding0k

Do you remember where you got yours from?

You've never had this happen? There seems to be consensus after searching Google that these.covers tend to wind up water logged :/

I bought the house I live in about a year ago. It came with a Caldera Watkins Elation that looked to be in decent shape. I don't know how old the cover was at the time. Over time, the cover has gotten heavier and heavier. Now it's so heavy I can't even lift the cover off the tub. It feels like...

I've got a 40watt circulation pump that goes through the heater, and then two pumps for the jets. Every time I add chlorine I turn the jets on. The circulation pump is on 24/7. Turning the jets on was causing the cloudy water. I'm still having the crazy demand problem, but the cloudiness seems...

In response to the other message -- my CH is ~55. I just measured it. (I say 55 because I added two drops after 4 drops didn't change it to blue, expecting to get a reading somewhere near 90, but it changed to blue. So, it's between 50 and 60 somewhere.)

Things were fine and then went south. I check the chlorine level every other day, sometimes every three days, when life gets in the way. But usually when I know I'm going to be away for awhile, I just raise the chlorine level up a bunch so that it won't drop to zero. One time, after only being...

I don't think it's CC -- I'm doing the drop test, so I measure it. It comes out between .5 and 1, and the total chlorine test shows almost none, too. I don't usually test hardness. I'll do that and post it. This is a filter I bought last season shortly before I winterized the tub. I cleaned it...

I've got lots of problems! Hopefully this forum can help. For awhile now, I've been noticing that the water is cloudy when I turn the jets on, and it clears up immediately when I turn them back off. There were a few times I really wanted to get in, and all the levels looked fine, so I just...

But will high chlorine levels (~50ppm) actually hurt the spa? I left the cover open today to let the sunlight help bring the levels down, and I ordered a T100 last night. I'm hoping it gets here in a few days so I can actually figure out what's going on.

I see. Thanks for that good explanation. So far, I've only been using test strips. Last night I had several issues, including not being able to get the test strip to ever show that there was any FAC. I think by the end I dumped so much chlorine in that nothing on the test strip is accurate...

I have a Caldera Elation (made by Watkins) 500 gallon spa. It has a silver ion cartridge in the filter. The manual specifically tells me not to use liquid bleach (unlike what I'm seeing in this forum). It gives no reason, though. It wants me to only use dichlor. I'd like to try the BBB method...