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    No More Salt Water Chlorine Generator -- What's the Right Salt Concentration?

    Jason, Jason, Elwood: Wow, thanks for the quick response and Jason, thank you for the link on chemicals and pool water quality indicators. I love this sentence about using the tablets... Message received loud and clear. What's a surprise is everyone here swears by them. Again, thanks.
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    No More Salt Water Chlorine Generator -- What's the Right Salt Concentration?

    Well, I've finally had just enough of the tempermental salt water chlorine generator system. Too fickle, too many failures, lots of expensive repairs. I think the weather in Las Vegas is just too hot for that stuff. When the generator cell went out again (after just 24 months) that was the...
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    Spa Drains Back to Pool (Las Vegas NV)

    Dunno about the water level relative to the pump equipment. Its quite a long distance from the pump to the pool area. Way too far for a string level, 90 feet away and around the corner of the building from the spa. I'll measure it again, but I'm nearly positive the level in the spa is...
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    Spa Drains Back to Pool (Las Vegas NV)

    Is that the control valve at the downstream side of the chlorine generator shown in the photo? I can certainly dis-assemble and review... What I don't understand is... what precludes drain back with this pop-up design. On this pool, the spa has 1/5th of the outlets in that circuit. Is this...
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    Spa Drains Back to Pool (Las Vegas NV)

    Help! First posting here. We are the new owners of a home with pool. Yowza! House built in 2006, so the pool equipment seems to be of that vintage. There is an 'attached' spa that drains into the pool. The water level of the spa is approx. 18" above the water level in the pool. Pool filter...
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