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Hi, I've had a permanent "Check Salt" error on my Tri pH SWG for months (salt level was fine, checked using salt drop test), I recently checked my CYA level, it was real low, I added 2kg of dry stabiliser and for the first time in ages I was able to clear the "Check Salt" error, why? Thanks...

Hi, Apologies if this has been asked before, I just got a 500 micron solar pool cover installed after a decade of making do without a cover. So in the last decade, with a lot of help from TFP, I've mostly kept the water quality correct. It's off-season here and so the pool cover will be on...

Hi All, I have a TRi pH unit, I like it. Anyway after 8 years, in the winter, the peristaltic pump gave up the ghost, it was a while before I noticed, probably quite a few months, the pool had started to go green. So I go to fix thing up and I remove the 20L acid (32% strength) bottle, its...

Hi, How do people dispose of the gallons of diluted TSP and acid used in cleaning cartridge filters? Can you add something to negate TSP's high alkalinity? I read about adding baking soda to the acid bath? Thanks. Richard

Hi, I have a 150 sqft Cartridge Filter right now with 2 cartridges, one is 6 months old and the other is 3 months. Now I changed from sand to cartridge 6 months ago (the pool was sand for at least a decade), not sure if that's relevant (is there some micron sized thing that sand lets through...

Hi, I don't want to pay A$3K for a Zodiac CV460, can I just plumb multiple cartridges in parallel? Split the pump outlet to 2-4 pipes put each of the pipes into a set of identical filters inlets and do the reverse on the filter outlets, I could even have valves on the filter inlets to allow me...

Hi, In 3 days Sydney moves to level 2 water restrictions. Has anyone built a system to save backwash water, basically a holding tank and some sort of method to get the water into a state so that a large percentage of it can be slowly put back into the pool? Maybe the holding tank has a...

Update: on reading what I have posted here I'm thinking that there is still some living algae. Hi All, Please help you lovely people. My SWG electrode connector corroded away and I only noticed when the pool unexpectedly went green, it was winter and we weren't using it, that's fixed. The...

Hi, I have a new 150 square foot cartridge filter, this thing is like 3ft tall, I ran it until the water pressure was close to the red and took it out and hosed it off for 30 mins, top to bottom, trying to get the water jet into every crease, that dropped the pressure a bit but nowhere near the...

Hi All, Thanks for all the help in the past. My (5 year old) sand filter has a hairline crack around the neck (long story), I have taken the filter out and I'm replacing it (for a number of reasons which I don't want to go in to) with a cartridge filter, which I have already. The two issues I...

Hi, Thanks for looking. We have a really old pool, the pump is pretty weak and I don't have any secondary connectors in the pool for creepy crawlers and such like. The floor of the pool is getting a lot of dust and the vacuum hose you put over the skimmer is complete rubbish. Actually from...

Hello you very helpful bunch, TRi is 4 years old, I just noticed the chlorinated side of the cell has a brown residue all over it, I took it out and cleaned it (for the first time), it could be one of the cables to the electrodes rusting, not sure. So my guess is there is brown residue going...

Hi, I replaced an ageing SWG with a Zodiac TRi Ph which I am pretty happy with, I got the large model, the problem is it's too good. It's summer here and with the timer set to 4 hours and the SWG output set to 60% the Ch level is creeping up. The solution I was thinking of would be to run the...

Hi, Hope one of you extremely helpful people can assist. I read the Jandy $15 linking to PC thread and posted there but I think it might be better to start another thread. I have a ftdi rs485 to USB adapter that I want to link to a Zodiac TRi-PH chlorinator, I don't have any controllers or...

Thanks for all the help in the past. Measured this morning with Taylor kit: 13 ppm FC, no CC, I thought it was going very green so I added a bunch of chlorine yesterday evening in a shock kit we had lying around and turned the ancient SWG up to max. Ph 2 drops to get to 7.4 so I added 600ml of...

G'day! We just bought a larger sand filter and are having a plumber modify the pipes to accommodate it. My pool equipment is higher than the pool. Does the following make sense? I would like to have each section of pipe removable, basically using like a dozen unions? I would like to add non...

We have a big hardware chain store here called Bunnings, it usually has pretty much all I need at good prices, it doesn't have anything called pool sand though, it has Zeolite but I don't want that. I called and then I just went in there are a few types of sand but none of them have the grain...

I am looking for one of the better kits but unwilling to pay $133 to http://www.tdchlorinators.com.au/tf100.php. Does anyone know of anyone that ships the Taylor K-2006, the Leslie's Chlorine FAS-DPD Service Test Kit, or the TF Test Kit's TF100 to Australia? Or maybe there is a reason you...

Hi, I have a layer of fine dirt on the bottom of the pool, the robot stirs it up weekly and its murky for a few days till it settles. What is the best way to get rid of this, I was thinking of doing a vacuum to waste, if that makes sense, should I FLOC it at the same time to maximise the...

G'day TFP'ers! I have just become the owner of my first pool, so please be gentle :) The pool and all the equipment is quite old, the SWC is about 8 years old by the stamps on it. Basically it all works but as I replace failed parts I would like to do so with automation in mind, when I say...