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In the spirit of the 4th of July weekend I thought I would post my electronic ignition system I built last year for fireworks. Basically its a plastic box with momentary switches that sends a current to 6 different feeds that will ignite an electronic match. Cost about $30 to build. I have ~200...

So, I've had a rough time with my pool this year for some reason..... It was a very warm winter so the pool was extra swampy when I opened it up. But, I SLAMed it, got it sparkling, raised my CYA up to 70 and off we went. Then I went on vacation for a week and the pool was slightly green when I...

I'm setting up my pool for the season and I'm going to hard pipe it. My pool came with the beloved Summer Escapes skimmer/filter/pump combo, but I quickly upgraded to the sand filter, pump and SWCG that they had on sale last year. My issue is finding a way to get rid of the pump that attaches to...

I'm helping a friend get his pool balanced and teaching him how to properly maintain it. He recently installed a SWG and now has yellow stuff covering most of the floor of the pool. I ran a full test on it last night and got him started shocking. Most of the "stuff" on the bottom comes up when...

I've seen reference to cold water making a SWG read low salt. Does this work in reverse for higher temps? I keep getting a high salt error on my Intex SWG, 2 weeks old, but my salt concentration reads 2500ppm, manual says it should be 3000-3500. I don't seem to get the error if I run the SWG in...