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Hurricane Gio - I had the same problem with my Aqua Rite and I believe the issue is that my cell went bad. I kept getting low salt readings and would add more and then it eventually stopped working. So I took a water sample to the pool store and they tested it at 5000 ppm, so way high. I read...

Well, I contacted Goldline support this afternoon and finally found out my problem. I purchased the wrong cell for my unit. My old one was a T-Cell-15 and I purchased a GLX-T-Cell 5W - which Goldline said was for a smaller sized pool. Apparently since it was operating on my control unit -...

No problem. I appreciate all of the help and suggestions. I am going to try to call the support line from home tomorrow afternoon - since last time I called they wanted me to do something on the control unit but I was at work. If they don't have any ideas on what to do after that I will...

Jason, I don't think there is a "reset" function on an Aqua Rite - or at least not one I am aware of. You mentioned hitting "left and right" and a plus sign - and the Aqua Rite controlled doesn't have any buttons for that - only a single button that toggles through various readings. The...

Jason, on your question, I installed the unit new probably 4 years ago and it worked fine until just a few weeks ago. That's when the salt reading was way low - causing me to put way too much salt into the pool. The new cell I ordered from an Ebayer had the cable attached - so there was no...

PoolNinja, I think you may be correct. I found a guy on Craigslist today who had a new control unit - box and all. So I bought that rather than risk buying just the main board and swapping that out in current control unit. Plus he was asking only a few bucks more than I could get a main board...

As an update, I swapped out the current limiting diode but the results are exactly the same. Same low salt reading - around 1800 on the AR unit but 3400 with the electronic tester I just purchased. The unit comes on and shows its generating for maybe a minute - despite the low salt...

Thanks for the heads up Pool1999. I will be sure to check everything out before taking the old one off to make sure the new one goes back on the same way. I hope to get a chance to work on it this afternoon.

I received my new diode part from Digi-Key yesterday so I will try to put that in when I get a chance. Once I get it installed I will post what impact it had on my unit. Hopefully that will resolve the issue. I also received the TDS tester I ordered and I did a quick check of my pool water...

Thanks, Poolschoolgrad. I did pull the cover off of the unit and looked at the parts - based on other posts on this forum - and everything looked good from the front side of the board. I did not remove the board to look at the back side of it. I have seen others post that the part you are...

I should have mentioned that I set the default salinity setting to 1800 the other day - thinking that even if the reading was wrong as long as the default was lower than the instant reading maybe that would trick it into thinking the salt level was high enough (which is actually is) and so it...

Poolschoolgrad - the readings are as follows: 1. Temp - 74 degrees 2. Cell Voltage - high of 32.4 but dropped and stayed around 26.2 until the unit stopped generating (approx 1 minute) 3. Cell current - started initially around 18 to 21 - but dropped and stayed around 4.4 until the unit...

I will get that information when I get home tonight and post it. Thanks.

Thanks for the welcome, Jason. Looks like a lot of good information can be found on the site so I was happy to run across it. On your question, no, the cell connector looks clean and nothing looked burned or melted on it. Looked about like new. One other question I forgot to ask was...

I have an Aqua Rite unit - Code says AL-1 and software 1.4. I think it's probably 4 or so years old. My salt reading was around 2600 and I kept adding salt and eventually began getting algae in the pool. I went to the pool store and had the water tested and they showed a salt level of 5000...