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Hi all I've been trying to help a friend' with his newly built pool .He has a problem with what I'm guessing is calcium scaling .He has had flat plate like build up on his chlorinator cell almost over night. The cell is self cleaning so can just be washed out between the fins but there is a lot...

Hi all since i have adopted the trouble free pool way of doing things i have had a nice clean balanced trouble free pool for the last 2 years plus . That is until a few days ago. i bought a Emaux brand 45gr/ph SWG 15 months ago which after a bit of a learning curve and the purchase of a good...

I have another question for you all i have been testing the T/A and CYA and CH once a month which seems to be fine they are pretty steady untill the last 6/8 weeks we have had some really heavy rain upto 10cm in one go.so ive had a fair bit of run off had to open the overflow several times ...

So here goes again having a pool through monsoon season in Thailand has been interesting over the last couple of years this is the first year with the SWG and after nearly any heavy downpour (can get upto 10cm of rain in one go) i get the salt low light on the SWG i have been testing it with...

Hi all im trying to confirm the Salt level in my pool getting a red light on the swg unit a emaux 45g/ph which this error light means not enogh salt /check cell .The unit is not very old been having this problem on and off since i bought it and have blindly added salt untill the light went out...

Just thinking aloud really thought i would throw it out there see what people think .My pool is about 15 months old now and all is well happy with the trouble free method havent drianed down ,no green water etc .So now my pool gets a lot more use than i originally expected when i bought the...

I recently bought a Emaux 45gr/hr SWG when i first got it there was a lot of visable bubbles filling the whole return tube , now after a month or so of running it there seems to be visablly less bubbles in the return Tube . So i done a over night test running it over night testing at 8pm then...

Hi all ive been running the TFPC method now for 6 months really happy with it no cloudy pool no green pool all is good .Then we decieded to let the local kids use the pool for a small fee towards running costs ( i live in a relatively poor area in north east Thailand) so now we have had temps up...

" EMAUX SSC50T when running at 100% it will use approx 15 amp at 220V-230V" This is the email i got back from Emuax today when i asked about the power consumption of there 45g /hr SWG as i understood reading various figures it should be in the range of about 300w power usage .Im going to put...

Ok looks like im near ready to buy a SWG after 5 months of driving a 160mile round trip each month to pick up 90L Liquid chlorine and using the trouble free pool method (which im really happy with) .The choice is limited and expensive here in Thailand the one that ive sort of choosen is a Emaux...

First of all i would like to say thank you to everyone who has pointed me in the right direction with my pool and i have been running it on Liquid Chlorine since 11/14 with no problems and perfect crystal clear water. I test PH/CL every day and T/A CH CYA once a month that seems to be fine not...

Hi all been using the bleech method for several months now and couldnt be happier pool stays crystal clear and i finally feel i have some sort of control on whats going on in there after many hours of reading on here and learning lots of usefull information . My question is my T/A has dropped to...

Im not sure if it has been mentioned on here before couldnt find it in a search . I was thinking in my situation where i need to buy 10X5 gallon drums about every 8-10 weeks of 10% LC would it be worthwhile diluting some of it (maybe 5 drums) as soon as i get it down to say 5% as it would store...

Having drianed and refilled my pool and getting everything back on track the TFP way i was wondering about my CYA levels . I live in Thailand where the temp doesnt really drop much below 30°C most days and can reach 40°C+ sometimes , the pool is in direct sunlight all day and last year in the...

I have been reading a fair bit on here and i couldnt find it .My problem is that i have to ship liquid chlorine from 500 miles away so i would like to buy it in reasonable amounts . The room i will keep it in is well ventilated but will have a temp of anything upto 85-90 in the day time .The...

After reading a lot on here it would seem that using alum as a floc is generally frowned upon . Its something that a few pool owners i now here in N/E Thailand (as recomended by there pool builder) do on a regular basis maybe once a month for some of them i have used it before with good...

Hi all im new here same as a lot of other people found my way here after the "problems " started too much Trichlor after checking a CYA of over 150 so i enede up with a swamp not a pool all the locals "experts" around here just seem to chuck Alum in once a month and keep going like that . After...