Recent content by thedingo13

Ha - making all the mistakes myself is so much FUN though! So - just for everyone else who has been following this thread - I disassembled the suction side of the plumbing and added teflon tape and silicon grease. Luckily one layer of each was enough to do the job, and now everything appears...

So - tried the impeller intake - nothing in there. I found that, if I poured water over the suction-side exposed plumbing, that the pump seemed to prime up. I tightened everything up on that side as much as I can, and now I have a much better prime, but there is still a lot of froth, and the...

Sorry - not a vortex ... there but you can see a strong inbound current, if that makes sense. There is no whirlpool down to the bottom.

Hi Richard - good question on the skimmers. In one skimmer I have a pretty reasonable whirlpool ... the other is much less (but it is further away and that has been fairly typical). The water pull appears to be consistent, but relatively weak. The water level is high and it does not appear...

I just tried to open our pool for the year, and the pump simply will not fully prime. It pulls water, and air and water spits out of the returns, but no prime. If anything, the pool is overfull, so that is not the issue. I have checked the pump basket seal, and it appears to be seated...

I believe that is correct. I am work, and have to double check. Does the fact that the light goes on and off intermittently suggest that I will not have to disassemble the light to check for water? I would have thought that, if water were leaking, the light would have gone dead completely...

The light is currently working. I am not 100% sure, but I believe that the GFCI is downstream of the switch. I will give it a shot with the power to the light on. I would think that the GFCI has to be at least working to some degree if it keeps tripping when the light is on, but I will double...

Hi everyone, I was hoping to get some help with a frustrating problem with my pool light (and avoid getting electrocuted in the process). We have a Pentair pool light and niche, circa 1997 or something like that. The light has not been working for a couple of years. This year, I decided I...

Oh - chlorine is in, believe me. The AquaPearl is a DE replacement that is supposed to not give you cancer or something, at the expense of being less of a PITA.

Dave - I appreciate all your help in walking me through to the solution. Ultimately, the problem ended up being a stuck weir door on the near skimmer, which was starving the skimmer of water (resulting in the pump sucking air). After leaning over the side of the pool I was able to jam my hand...

If I recall, from last time I could see clearly into the bottom of the skimmer, there were what appeared to be two small holes in each. I can say that, when I plugged one hole in the near skimmer, the far skimmer continued to operate, while the near skimmer stopped entirely. I would think...

They both have weir doors. It is difficult to say whether or not there are one or two unplugged holes, because I can't even see that far down with the current water clarity.

And then, the big question I had was whether or not adding DE and putting the system in filter mode might slow the flow enough so I can reopen that skimmer back up (obviously this is dependent on a number of variables, but was just trying to figure out how much power I add to the system by...

Ha - no worries, and I appreciate all of your help on a holiday weekend! So - I had posted those pictures earlier in the thread of my setup, but they are not labeled. Essentially, what I know for certain is that skimmer lines join somewhere underground, and they come up as one line into a...

Hi Dave - Regarding the line being blocked - not disagreeing, because I have no idea how any of this really works. However, I do have a question as to how a blockage would cause the skimmer to drain faster. I intuitively would think a blockage would actually SLOW the pull of water, but I am...