Hi,
For the past few weeks, I have been battling with losing water from the spa to the pool when the pump turns off unless I shut off the spa return line. I replaced two check valves I have and the problem persisted. When the pump is off and the spa return line is on, water will start coming out from the pool bubblers until the spa water level reaches below the spa return jets.
Today, I went outside to continue my inspection and decided to turn the whole system off and open up the chlorinator. Water in the chlorinator was sucked completely! I closed the lid and ensured the spa return line was open, and noticed water was no longer coming out from the bubblers.
I continued to experiment by turning the pump on with the chlorinator lid off until it was full of water, closed the lid, turned the pump off, and noticed water released from the pool bubbler. Opened up the chlorinator lid, water was sucked immediately, closed the lid, and no water was released from the bubbler.
I am currently running the pool without the chlorinator lid on just to see what happens when the pool turns off tonight. I have also turned the dial to 0 on the chlorinator so no water is flowing to it but at least let air to equalize pressure and not lose spa water. But my goal is to fix the problem now and am not sure what to fix.
Any thoughts on what the culprit is in a situation like this would be helpful. Thanks.
For the past few weeks, I have been battling with losing water from the spa to the pool when the pump turns off unless I shut off the spa return line. I replaced two check valves I have and the problem persisted. When the pump is off and the spa return line is on, water will start coming out from the pool bubblers until the spa water level reaches below the spa return jets.
Today, I went outside to continue my inspection and decided to turn the whole system off and open up the chlorinator. Water in the chlorinator was sucked completely! I closed the lid and ensured the spa return line was open, and noticed water was no longer coming out from the bubblers.
I continued to experiment by turning the pump on with the chlorinator lid off until it was full of water, closed the lid, turned the pump off, and noticed water released from the pool bubbler. Opened up the chlorinator lid, water was sucked immediately, closed the lid, and no water was released from the bubbler.
I am currently running the pool without the chlorinator lid on just to see what happens when the pool turns off tonight. I have also turned the dial to 0 on the chlorinator so no water is flowing to it but at least let air to equalize pressure and not lose spa water. But my goal is to fix the problem now and am not sure what to fix.
Any thoughts on what the culprit is in a situation like this would be helpful. Thanks.