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A few years ago, I accidentally punched a few holes in my liner which my pool store patched with extra liner material and glue. It worked well but over time the patches started to lift at the edges. The liner was ten years old. Even with the patched holes, I thought the rate of water loss...

Choots, I've used TightWatt digital timers for three years and love them. I can program them to run the pumps for different amounts of time according to the season. The timers know the date and vary the run times on their own. I simply tell them how many summer hours to run and how many...

If you have three wires providing 220 in the conduit, my guess is they are red, black, and green wires. If so, you can get 120 between either the red and green or the black and green. No need to pull new wires for 110. Check it out with a simple volt/ohm meter which you can buy at any...

Adam, I'm having difficulty uploading the schematic to the forum. I'd be happy to provide you a copy by email. Respond to: [email protected] if you'd like to try that. Ralph

I leave my pool in the hands of relatively inexperienced maintenance people from time to time and need to have it fairly well automated and electronically controlled. I use two timers, one on the main pump and one on the cleaner robot. And I have a thermostat to protect against frozen pipes. (...

dschlic1: Thanks for the suggestion. Do you mean that there may be a thermal switch built into the bulb itself? I had suspected that there was a thermal switch in the light housing but it never occurred to me that there may be a thermal switch within the bulb. If that were so, it would sure...

My latest thoughts (and efforts): Yesterday I had concluded that the pool light transformer itself must have an intermittent open in the winding. But I needed more time to think on further diagnosis. I've often found if I'm faced with a tough or incomprehensible issue, if I just walk away...

re: Pool light malfunction Here's the latest post to the Yahoo Pool group and the current status of my search for the problem with my pool light: MR 14, 2008 My poollight issue continues. I got the replacement thermal/overload protector for the transformer today. An engineer at the...

Here are my posts on a Yahoo pool group concerning a problem with my pool light. It's not resolved yet. I'd appreciate any ideas. I have one more post to the group which I'll bring here as soon as it's published and I can copy it. Basically, it concludes that neither the light itself or the...