Hi Everyone.
I have a Aquarite Salt pool. Been A-OK for 5 years (which I think is pretty good). Texas had a heck of a heat wave and drought this summer. The salt cell went and I replaced it about a month ago.
Not a week later, the lights on the control box would come on (No flow, etc) during startup, then go off and show chlorine level at 4000. We knew that was incorrect cause we had it analyzed. Called Aquarite, they had me run a voltmeter between the 2 yellow wires and I got something like 22V and they said .. "Your system board is bad"
I searched on Internet and found this site.
THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU !!!
The black round thing on my system board was in one piece, but I could easily see burn marks on the board. I ordered 2 new ones using information from this board...
"West, you are my hero! Just checked for the "black thing" and sure enough...it is cracked and it looks like burn marks around it! I am ordering replacement part from Digi-Key Corp., the part# is 570-1062-ND, for 2.42 each. I am ordering two! Thank you"
The price for 2 of the black things was <$ 6.00 with shipping.
I bought a soldering iron from Lowes for approx $15 (I have one but it was way too big for this job)
I bought some solder from Sears (thin solder ) for about $3.50
Took the board off (easy)
Unsoldered the black thing (easy) The thing crumpled while I was taking it off, there was a crack down the back under the black coating.
Soldered a new one on.
Salt Generating working fine.
If you need help with the de soldering and re soldering, let me know. This was the first time I ever did a system board component and I researched all over. It was no where near as hard or detailed as the articles on the internet said. Knowing what I know now, I could do it in about 15 minutes from uninstall system board to re-install system board. Being my first time, I just took it slow and easy.
Here is my email if you need help.
[email protected]. This saved a ton of money.
Thank you to all of you again. I love these sites.
Matt