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Sounds like a good idea at construction time. This stuff looks interesting too, asphalt tape that swells, like thick insulation tape , wrap around pvc pipe penetration near centrre of concrete. Made in Japan, another Xypex product. I agree, why is this not a standard? - with water now...

Pool built 3 yrs ago, shotcrete with tile finish. The pool has a infloor cleaning system on its own circuit. (PCC2000). The pool has a about 12 wall PVC penetrations excluding the infloor pop-ups. The penetrations all had scalloped out cavity around each pipe on the internal wall that was...

Good comment, Thats probably why they recommend two 45s rather than one 90 to allow debris, leaves and stuff thru to the basket canister rather than a significant increase in resistance per se.

Paramount recommend 2 x45 instead of a 90 when plumbing their PCC2000 main drain to the debris canister to prevent cavitation on the suction side.

Sorry, I wasn't specific enough. The Chloromatic ESC36ph is already in place ( 3yrs old - put in with the original pool installation). I didnt actually realise that this unit had this fail safe mechanism until I began looking into this. apparently the salt cell detects the lack of flow and turns...

I've discovered the installed Monarch Esc36 chlorinator which has a power point for the pump has a failsafe built in. It senses the lack of flow in the chlorinator and then turns off the pump powerpoint and the chlorinator.

Its really a form of insurance to prevent the pump from running for long periods dry. It has only happened once in 3 yrs and was lucky I was there when pump started dry so I could switch it off. Checked all connections without finding anything obvious and reprimed the system and no leaks...

Is there a device that i can install on my pump/filter circuit to stop the pump starting if the circuit has lost prime. Unfortunately the Hurlcon BX 1.0 is 1.4 m above waterline. It has one way valves pre pump and post filter and holds prime most of the time. But very occasionally the prime is...