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    Spa Blower turns on by itself

    Good Afternoon, We have a Spa/Pool combo, about 6 years old. Lately the spa blower motor (Air Supply Silencer Air Blower) turns on by itself and only a reset of the pool pumps fuses shuts it off. We have no remotes or complex electronics, just a plain old dial for the pool pump and a dial for...
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    Replacing water (high CYA) - what steps?

    Hi Everyone, I have gotten very good a balancing my pool with the BBB method and using a good Taylor test kit. Over the past 4-6 weeks I could not keep enough chlorine and identified high CYA (~200) as the culprit. So this weekend I will drain about 2/3rds (or 8000G) of my pool and replace with...
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    Spa Blower Operation Question

    We have a spa blower that works wonderfuly when we operate the Spa. The other day our kids pushed the blower botton however when the main pumps/valves where operating the pool. The spa jets went ballistic - too the great fun of the kids, but I am concerned about burning out equipment. Any...
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    Adding a small, basic slide

    Hello All, Our small kids are asking about adding a small slide to the side of our pool and I am not in the market for a $600-$1K version unfortunately. Two options come to mind: 1. Inflatable: http://www.target.com/p/Intex-Water-Sli ... u=11936316 I am wondering about the hassle of...
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    Borates - Refreshing Qty Question

    Hello All, I apologize if this has been touched upon before, but the 16+ pages post on Borates is a tad long ;-) I am using Proteam's Supreme (they did not have the acid neutral PLUS version) and got my pool all set last year, right after it was build. In order to keep my optimizer level I...
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    Booster Pump ran w/o main pump

    Good Day Everyone, We have our first pool build last year and are wrapping our hands around a lot of things to learn. Do to mis-setting the timers, we ran the booster pump for the pool cleaner (Pentair 280) without the main pumps running. Other than the vacuum not doing the cleaning (lack of...