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The way I’m reading it my levels are good…is that right?

Ph reading added.

I’ve had the frog system since I installed it when we moved into the house 8ish years ago. Has been a good system once the pool was up and running. But at $30 a cartridge now that last 3-4 weeks it’s getting pricier every year. So once this cartridge is done I want to switch to the system you...

Checked last night and this morning and i'm still holding steady at FC 15 but the water is still cloudy. Do i seriously just keep the FC up until it decides to clear up?

Unfortunately we will be out of town from Thursday-Monday, so i'm need to have it stabilzed before we leave. I dumped about half gallon in last evening and i checked again at 6am and i only had a FC loss of 1-2. I'll check again when i get home in a little bit, but as of this morning it was...

So my pool went green so I immediately started the SLAM process. I dumped 3 bottles of shock in last night and this morning it looks a lot better. I got 24 for the FC this morning at 6am and when I got home at 3pm these are the readings I’m getting: Ph 7.2 FC 14.5 Cc 0 TA 110 CH 80 Cya 50 While...

Thanks everyone. Not sure why i had it in my head that you couldn't swim in anything beyond target FC.

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Pool water clarity just isn't looking right the last few days, but the numbers all seem to be in check. Water has a cloudiness to it and a slightly green tinge. I wanted to check here first before i SLAM it and render the pool out of commission as we head into a HOT weekend.

We purchased Diver Dave about 5 years ago when we purchased our home which had an above ground pool. Well, Dave hasn't always worked the greatest since day 1 which resulted in me usually getting frustrated and just pulling him from the water and vacuuming manually. His feet, flaps and...

When we tossed our solar cover at the end of last season due to it disintegration, we forgot to salvage the clips/rope that worked with our cover reel. Our reel is mounted across the center of our 24' round above ground pool. The old kit was the Horizon Ventures which has the plastic clips...

I've never had to continue SLAM'ing this long after surviving a night of 1 FC loss. Whatever is causing the cloudiness is one heck of a fighter.

So it looks like i passed the overnight test per this mornings sample. Here are my numbers as of right now: FC 15 TA 90 Calcium 70 CYA 20 PH 7.5 Water looks clean, but it's still really cloudy. Suggested next steps?

I'm testing using one of the TFKits (sp?) that was recommended to me on this site. I work during the week, so i can only test before and after work. As for the Frog system, normally i put a cartridge in and i don't have to touch a single darn thing for 3'ish weeks. I recently added the job of...

Left on the 4th for a 5 day weekend only to come home to a dark green pool :( So Monday morning at 6am i started SLAM'ing with 12.5% since the water was so dark green you couldn't see you hand 6in into it. By Monday afternoon the water already looked a ton better. Added some more 12.5%...

Since i finally got the heater to actually work, i'm reviving an old thread! My heater is actually a H150 model, so it's 150k BTU. So based on Chem Geek's equation, at 85% efficency i'm running 127,500 BTU/hr. This would take 50 minutes to raise the pool temp by 1 degree. My current gas rate...

UPDATE: So i was able to lightly sand all 3 rupture areas and solder them back together without any issues. Cleaned out the entire heater since i had the whole thing stripped apart anyways. Got it all put back together and she fired up, leak free!! WOOT WOOT!!! I did notice i've got a few...

;) Is something like this caused by inpromper winterizing (I'm in WI) ?

I had 3 ideas for a fix. 1. Try to squeeze the cracks closed as best as possible and then try to solder it closed. 2. Cut the "U" shaped ends off and then get a roll of copper tube that fits as snug as possible inside the existing tube. Bend a piece into a u shape long enough to sleeve the...

So i've got an older doughboy pool and the original skimmer basket was destroyed. The last 2 years i was using a different basket that the previous home owner had laying around which worked fine as well. That's now breaking and falling apart. It looks like the 1300-1002 basket is darn near...

Been trying to get this heater up and running since buying the house. Replaced the pilot assembly and got that working. Opened the valves to let water into the heat exchanger before I tried igniting the main burners and suddenly saw water blowing out the side opposite of the inlets. Ripped...

So i gave up on this heater shortly after this post in 2016....needless to say here i am 2 years later ready to try again. So step 1 is to get this pilot lit. Is it safe to say i'll have to remove the left panel to reach this pilot? When i look at page 32 of this manual...

Well I just pulled the filter again and boy she was green. Cleaned it and put it back in and then got the FC levels up to 13 or so. It's pitch dark out now so we will see what's waiting for me in the morning. Of course this happens on a long holiday weekend :mad:

Yes it's connected, and I assume its working given my FC has been holding steady all week. Is there a way to test for copper? It's been raining a fair amount lately, would that cause any of this?