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The SnowJoe I used last year is not available anymore (94% pure). Does this seem OK? It says 100% calcium chloride on home depot website. I am open to ideas if someone had a better source. This is from Home Depot and about $25 for 50lb which is cheap...

Old Jandy system - originally installed in 2000. Was upgraded to iAqualink (first version) and board was swapped at the time. Two touch keypads, both not displaying (se photo attached). I hear the system controlling my pump, but I cannot access the programming without the keypads (and...

Plan was to get the water below the return but above the lights. Went about an inch too far and the water line is at the top of one of my pool lights (and above the other as it should be). How bad is this? Should I try to top off the pool with an inch or two of water to fully cover the other...

I just had a terrible thought and wanted to run it by others who know. I drained my pool in December (eastern Long Island), getting the water level below the returns and just above the pool lights. I blew out all the lines. Plugged the pipes by the pumps, etc. But I did NOT put plugs on the...

I have had issues with my Raypak heater for years getting very frequent Raypak High Limit 2 faults. I have changed the Unitherm governor several times (most recently two weeks ago), the internal bypass, replacing the limit sensors and adding a heat shield. I finally decided that I must have a...

I went to log my pool chemical levels today and I was told I must upgrade to premium to do so. I noticed my renewal was processed July 1 so I am 100% up to date. On further inspection, my subscription seems to be for an old email that gets kept alive with Family Sharing. Since Apple would not...

I have a 3000 gal spa with it own plumbing system. I have had trouble with leaks for years. Thought it was leaking at the throat of skimmer and did many patches last year. Finally brought in a professional company last year who said the leaks were from the jet tubes and they replaced them...

Was away 6 days. Came back and Dolphin wont work at all. Power supply seems to function. Lights work as normal, but the lights on the clearer itself and motor never come on. Acts like it's dead. Any thoughts? Emailed Maytronics and sat on hold for 30 minutes or so.

I am unable to establish and hold wifi connection this year. The app tries to connect and gets to somewhere between 50 and 75% connected, then gives me a failed to connect page. I can see on my router's client page that the dolphin connects and disconnects frequently, even when I am not trying...

Pool has been open for two weeks and everything has now pretty much stabilized. CSI is low - in part driven by temperature. I am reluctant to bring my alkalinity over 60 as I typically have trouble with high pH in the summer and keeping alk=60 helps me control the pH creep. My borates are an...

Just started up my pool two weeks ago and gradually getting all teh equipment back on line. It's cold here still, but I read the AquaRite works at temperatures above 50 degrees. My chlorinator is hooked up to a Jandy system, but has worked this way for years and I am pretty sure it is properly...

I am just starting up my system for the season. I have been running the pool pump 24 hours straight as I SLAM. I noticed the pump turned itself off at the Jandy (so the Jandy went to pool pump off, not the pool pump itself reset). Confused I set up a program to run the pump 23 hours, off at...

Been so warm I am tempted to do it now, but its only mid-March.

This is my second year winterizing pool myself. One of my autofill tanks seems to have cracked last year so I want to be sure I don make the same mistake twice. The new one came with a winterizing plug where water flows into the reservoir. The plug fits in where the fluid master valve goes...

I closed my pool today. I cleaned out he DE filter but did not add more DE as the pumps were off etc. Is this OK? Can I just leave the empty clean grids in the filter container for the winter? Obviously with drain plugs removed etc.

Biggest question I have before I start is how to deal with significant upward pH drift (or should I not be concerned). During the season, I was adding almost 2 gallons of acid every week to bring pH to 7.6 or so (and I would let pH drift back up to 8.1-8.2). Between my chlorinator and the new...

I use a digital meter to read my salt level. It registers a steady 3400 every day for last two weeks or so. My 2+ year old Hayward 940 is reading 3100 most of the time. Instant reading is 3200 at one polarity and 3100 at the other. I am concerned that my cell is showing signs of failure. It has...

Seems like my wall is leaking below the skimmer but above the jets. I have demonstrated this leak three times this week with the jets plugged. The water leaks rapidly down to the top of the jets area - mostly stops leaking (leads slowly down to 1/2 inch below the top of the jets, then stops...

My pool waterfall works by diverting water from the returns to a pipe on a rock and letting the water flow down the rock and into the pool. I have some issues with water loss as some water flows through grooves in the rock onto the coping stones or even behind the rock. I was able to fix a lot...

I have a Superpump housing on my spa pump. I recently upgraded the pump to variable speed (V-green) and notices a few air bubbles in the pump window at slow speed especially. I went to check the drain plugs and the one on the side broke off when I went to remove it. I drilled it out and...

Looks good to me and great buy for less than $80 with free shipping relative to the $130 I paid last year. But want to be sure I’m not missing something (and happy to share source with others). Moderator Comment: As this appears to be a fraud, I have removed the website

My spa heater has an issue where it trips HL2 frequently as it is heating the water to 104 - the trip occurs shortly before reaching the high temperature. I typically reset the error but cycling the mode on the spa heater's physical control to off and back to spa - it then lights and reaches...

I needed to replace a broken bulb and so I removed my pool light last week. I noticed what seemed like a deteriorated seal or gasket around the niche itself - apart from the fixture. Looks like the pool refinisher simply applied fresh diamondbrite on top of the rubbery material when he...

I have a newly refinished diamond brite pool and spa and starting to see some staining, generally on patches where the surface is not fully flat (and the stains are appearing on the indentations). I am thinking to add Jack's purple to deal with potential metals (I use well water - used Jack's...

I have been trying to correct a leak from my spa that was losing 2 inches of water every 12 hours - but stopping at tile line. Over the last year plus, I have takes the following steps (leak masked by autofill, but obvious because of declining chemical levels): 1) Let water drop with pump off...

Last year I upgraded my pool lights (pentair fixtures, big and small for pool and spa) to Pool Tone LED lights. I just noticed that one of the smaller bulbs in my spa turns on OK (they go on green) but within 60 seconds or so starts to go to strobe mode rapidly shifting colors. Not sure why or...

I have an Aqualink system that has experienced many upgrades over 2+ decades, now a RS 2/6 Dual system, with Rev R and iAqualink. It controls a Pentair Intelliflo pump for pool, a Superpump for spa (being replaced with a V-Green VS pump, but ignore this for now), an AquaRite 940 chlorinator for...

I have a version 1 iAqualink connected by ethernet to my home network. It has worked for perhaps even a decade or close to it with minimal issues. Today something odd started happening. I have full access from my safari browser on my mac. I go to the iAqualink.com page and sign in, and...

Green water. I went over and measured FC=0 CYA=0. She said her pool man put 5 gallons of liquid shock in pool earlier in the week. Sand filter is set to recirculate and leaking from top (and has no pressure gauge). Looks like 20,000 gallon pool. I said she needs a new pool company. But for...

I have had my SWG running for about 10 days this season. It was maintaining an FC of about 7-8 running at 100% with the pump on 17 hours a day. Most days were sunny and my pool was getting heavy pollen flow for the spring season (lots of organics filtered out). Yesterday my FC creeped up to...