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Questions for some of you pool chemistry gurus: I have always had to add lots of acid to keep my pH down to 7.6 - 7.8, so I thought I would try adding borates. I lowered the pH to 7.6, added about 33 lbs of boric acid a couple of weeks ago, so I should be around 50ppm borates now. My...

For those of you who use the above hard-wired wall-mount controllers on your Jandy controller, what does the display show when it is just sitting there on your wall? IE, does it show basic pool parameters, such as water temp , air temp, etc.? Background: I had started another thread (thank you...

Hope some of you Jandy experts can help with this. My pool was finished in June 2018, and my PB installed both the home wireless network box, and the PDA wireless network box, so I can use my phone or the dedicated PDA handheld remote for pool control. However, I really miss my old wired...

OK, I have a solar bubble cover, and I use it in the spring and fall. But, during the summer here in Austin TX, I would like to slow down the evaporation rate of the pool without heating it up. Just solar heating with no cover usually keeps our pool between 83 and 89F. If I were to keep the...

After last summer's drought here in Texas, with our Austin makeup water being in the "moderately hard" category, my pool water's CH is now around 500. I have rigged a gutter drain to empty into the pool to try to capture as much calcium-free refill as I can during our spring (hopefully) rainy...

I just bought an additional 4-zone Easy Touch Indoor Control Panel to add to another part of our house. I snapped out the exiting indoor panel, which is working just fine, and snapped the new one in, just to make sure it works OK. But, it lights up and just says "NO COMM", won't communicate...

Noticed some flakes of white stuff along with the normal trash in my PoolSkim sock, they are not salt (I carefully tasted - no real taste). So, not only does the PoolSkim do a great job skimming, maybe it is also and early warning device! So, I check my chemistry: FC: 3 pH: 7.8 T/A: 85 CYA...

We have sand-colored pebble plaster in our new pool, and I would like to paint the returns and drains with something that would stick to the plastic and won't bleach out. My plan is to remove the external parts, paint them and replace them after they are cured. So, how about epoxy pool paint...

We are entering our first spring with our new pool, and here in Austin the prevailing wind is from the south. Unfortunately, I am finding out that the south wind blows surface debris to the deep end of our pool, but the skimmer is near the shallow end. Even if I run the pump at a high speed...

I just installed a heat pump for our pool, and it is about 15 feet away from the equipment pad, plus about 3 feet higher than the pump (the only reasonable location for it). Usually, a check valve is required on the outlet of the heat pump to prevent high concentrations of chlorine from backing...

Hi y'all! They are starting gunite as I am writing this, and I am still trying to figure out what I want for my equipment! So, that makes me a newbie! These forums have been a wealth of information and acceleration of my learning curve.... :goodjob: The problem: I want to plan for solar...

Before I ask my question, I want to thank all of the incredibly talented and generous folks who contribute so much knowledge to this forum--it has been my elevator up the learning curve as I have boned up on pool info in prep for owning a pool for the first time! Virtually every topic has...