Recent content by novaroam

Question for you technical gurus. I'm replacing my burned out lite bulb (only lasted 3 years). The mfg recommended bulb 840211 from the pool stores is between $100 and $150. Interesting enough the P/N printed on the bulb (UHI-S150Dm/a/uvp) runs about $40 from online vendors. So my question is...

Followup to my SWG experience. Ended up using the Costco salt pellets and had no problem dissolving them - took about 30 minutes. One interesting thing to note - I added 50 lbs less than recommended from the Pool Calculator and too my surprise the salt content was about 20% higher than I...

I think I'm going with the pellets - they are cheaper and dissolving with me feel sounds like a new experience. Thanks for everyone's comments and feedback.

Thanks for your response. Why is the Extra course solar salt a better choice? I know the pellets take longer to dissolve.

I'm in the process of converting my pool to salt water so that I can use my new SWG system from Hayward (Aqua Rite) and was wondering if it is ok to use Diamond Crystal salt pellets (yellow bag). My local Costco is selling 50 lb bags for $4.99 and from the package it is 99.8% pure, however...

Thanks for the advice. I just pumped out 1/3rd of the water and in the process of refilling. Will retest the water sometime tomorrow.

Just opened up my pool a couple of days ago and noticed it was green so I shocked it kill the algae. Also, using my TFT 100 test kit recorded a CYA in excess of 100. Used the drain/fill method to reduce the CYA. Now that the pool is up and running (20 hours) the water is still cloudy -...