The season is well underway now in sunny California, which has brought with it a few changes in the pool!
- Using the UltraTemp heat pump that was installed in December, to maintain a balmy 85 degrees each day (and we swim daily)
- Found another leak along the tile at the rear corner of the pool; patched it up with some epoxy putty and so far it looks like water less is down from ~190 gallons/day to ~120 gallons/day. For reference, 120 gallons against my surface area represents a 0.24 inch loss.
- Had Pentair send me a new power supply for the Prowler 920. Finally I get daily automation! But... it then broke 4 days later and I'm back to manually turning it on every morning.
- In January I had a new return line put in, taking over a defunct suction/cleaning line that used by in the old configuration. This is so that I have a direct-to-pool return option, since prior to this there was only the circuit through the spa and back into the pool.
- Installed a new return actuator and programmed the Intellicenter to use it to turn on the spillway twice a day, 30 mins at 9am and 2pm, for chemical distribution.
- Found a really heavy metal angle bracket and glued a ruler to it so I can accurately measure evaporation loss against the refill rate.
- Once the leaks are all gone, getting ready to add some boronic acid for the season! Looking forward to seeing what that changes.
- The other day I had a guest over whom swims at a lot of local pools, and he said he'd never seen a pool as clean as mine. Proper chlorination for the win.