Recent content by Pointyhead

It's coming along, although slower than it's ever been before. It still has a greenish yellow cast, but I can just see the bottom on the deep end at 8.5 ft. A couple of weeks more and it might be crystal clear again.

From what I've been reading, they go bad, usually having to be replaced once a year. Guess I've been blessed to have this one 3 years. BTW, the squirrels love to get on top of the filter and gnaw on the edges of the selector valve. I've got chew marks all around the top of this thing.

Over the past two days, I have noticed a significant drop in the water level. I filled it overnight twice and each afternoon my skimmer was sucking air. I added about 4 inches last night and during the night it occurred to me to check the discharge pipe. It runs the width of the backyard and...

I bought a Hayward leaf canister, model 560, to put in-line with my pool cleaner and vacuum. It's a petty simple construction. The inflow has a female port and the outflow has a male connector. If I connect it t my vacuum, which has a male connector on it, it will fall off if it gets bumped by...

So here's the deal. Last fall, under protest, I left the cover off the pool as the wife wanted to keep the pool open all winter so that it would be pretty for Christmas parties and such. I complied (happy wife, happy life!) until I had a major medical issue that prevented me from keeping it...

This is my second full year with our pool. Last year we had so much rainfall, we only got to use the pool maybe 10 times. It was so much rain that I was constantly having to draw down the level so that it wouldn't overflow when I was not at home. As a consequence, I never could get the CYA much...

For what it's worth, this year when I was opening my pool, my water had a green tint for several days, even though all my numbers were good and I had no algae presence whatsoever. I read somewhere here on TFP that prolonged high chlorine levels would do that. A few days after I got it down from...

That's what I'm thinking. The clock motor is pre-wired to A (neutral) and hot to Terminal 1.

No, there's just the 4 insulated wires coming in to the timer box, 2 white and 2 black (plus 2 grounds). The only thing on the circuit is the pool pump.

The pump is 110. I just changed it out this spring. It's a Hayward 1.5 super pump. In fact, I don't have any 220 lines in my breaker box.

My Timex timer broke recently (plastic shaft inside snapped) and no longer will spin. I bought an Intermatic T101M as a replacement. Beside the fact that mechI got a super deal on it on eBay, but didn't realize that it was a SPST as opposed to the DPST that the Timex is. Which means that the...

Couldn't find an answer to this on the board, so I thought I'd let the experts speak to this. My CYA is down. Way down. It won't register on using the sight glass, so it's either down to nothing or, like I read last night, levels below 20 won't register at all at times. At any rate, I got some...

My water temp was 71 on Saturday. I am waiting (and waiting and waiting) for it to drop to 60, so i can close it down and put the cover on. I'm really tired of sucking out acorns every day! I noticed that all my friends with AGPs have already closed theirs. I figured that it is because of the...

My water temp was 82 this past weekend with the air temp of about 88. I went swimming for a short time Sunday afternoon with no problems. We are planning one last pool party/cookout for next Sunday, and then I will start thinking about closing the pool for the winter.

You don't have to suck on a hose to start a siphon. You can submerse the hose to fill it, keep one end in the water, plug the other and place it lower than the water level, then unplug it.