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Hello fellow TFPers! It's great to be back to a site I haven't visited in ages. I am winterizig a Jacuzzi J480 - winters are way to cold up here near Montreal, Canada. I emptied the spa, and was able to remove all but ONE diverter. All the lines have been blown dry, except for this one...

A contractor doing work in our yard recently accidentally damaged the power chord going to the spa. We changed the power chord and subsequently I replaced a fuse, but the circulation pump didn't work. I jumped it, meaning I bypassed the electro-mechanical relay, and the pump does work now...

Folks, I fear the worst. To make a long story short, in the course of routine yard work, the power cable to the spa (240V, 3 lead) got damaged. The GFCI tripped, and the control panel was blank. I switched power to that circuit off from the home circuit breaker panel. Prior to replacing the...

Hello group, The circulation pump had been running fine, according to scheduled parameters (starting at midnight, running for 12 hours, per mfg suggestions). A couple of days ago, I noticed it was not running in the morning hours, at it is supposed to, till noon, that is. When I manually...

This post relates to a friend's pool - not our hot tub! Volume of pool: 60,000 liters; water is sparkling clear. Numbers this morning using Taylor test kit: FC: 8.5 ppm pH: << 7 (below bottom end of color scale pH (according to pool store, notoriously unreliable) 6.8 Base demand: 10 drops...

Hello forum managers! Late last November (2017) I put up a post in the Salt Water Chlorine Generators (SWG) section. I was interested in designing a simple SWCG board, and control it with an Arduino microprocessor. I received one or two very interesting responses. For some reason this post has...

Hello, Our 24' pool has a sand filter. Debris (dead algae, DE) flow back into the pool from the filter. Never having seen this before, I wonder whether to consider this normal or if something is wrong. A bit of history: the pool came with a house we bought; we have no history of how the...

Hello group, I've found our spa relatively easy to manage for about one year now; the pH typically slowly drifts upward from 7.3 to 7.8 over a period of 10 days before needing adjustment. So now, the water in the tub is 60 days old, and twice this week, the pH has jumped from 7.3 to 8.0 in...

We're looking forward to taking our spa out of hibernation within the next couple of weeks or so. We did a line clean & purge (with Ahh-Some) just before winterizing. Is it advisable to redo a purge with Ahh-Some again upon restarting the spa? Ron Montreal

Hello TFP members! Our Sundance Cameo hot tub came with an add-on SWG - which is awesome! The spa is serviced with 240V; a power cord carries current from the main controller panel to the SWG unit, which also runs at 240V. Once the snow finally melts, :kim: I am planning a minor change to the...

Hello, I'll be winterizing our hot tub shortly - it gets very cold up in Montreal, our area is prone to power failures, and sometimes we are away from home days at a time. I noticed that the drain plugs on two of the pumps are not oriented at the very lowest position - see what I mean here...

Hello, I'm curious as to how often other tub owners find they need to balance their water, particularly pH & TA. Our 350 gallon tub has a SWCG and is covered when not in use. Over the summer, I've learned how to deal with the typical upward drift of pH. What is working relatively well now is...

Hello I've already started the build for this project - an outdoor grill island. The idea is originally from DIYPETE, who has great how-to videos on building your own patio furniture and on making concrete counter tops. The counter will be 9 feet long, 26 inches deep, and have a concrete...

A couple of days ago, I noticed that the 20 day old water in the spa had lost a bit of it's sparkle. The FC, pH and other parameters have been OK since the refill; still, for good or bad, I decided to treat with MPS. I should have put in 30g (6 tsps), but wasn't careful enough and ended up...

Hello! I've had the tub for 2 months now, and started getting a rash 10 days ago. Details: Drained water 3 weeks ago after 'flushing/cleaning' for 24 hours; Shocked to 10 ppm after refilling and once again 10 days later; Water is crystal clear and never got murky in that period; Have had no...

Hello I recently bought a spa with SWCG. Having trouble with managing pH, and following suggestions on this site, I decided to invest in a Taylor K-2006 test kit. Here is an unboxing video of the kit. Here is a link for the Taylor K-2006 test kit from amazon.com. After recording the video...

Hello group! A spa I recently acquired came along with a SWG as an addon. The SWG manufacturer no longer distributes or supports this product. All I was able to find on the internet was a brief document describing the proper use of the SWG. The unit does seem to work fine. But I'm looking...

Hello group! What a great site this is! I acquired my first spa a few weeks ago and am very impressed at the quality information I found on this site. I am confident I'll be able to better manage my spa with the expertise found here! In a nutshell: I have a SPA with a SWG and the pH is...