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8,000 Gallons Best Way Pool
- By Newdude
- Testing and Balancing Your Water
- 5 Replies
It is in fact meant to be emptied and stored each winter, so if the situation arises you need to drain it fully, its safe to do. Other pools might pop out of the ground, or wrinkle their liner.
You said it was cloudy.
If the algae is dead, it will take a long time to filter it out the with intex equipment. Up to you, but i wouldn't fight it, I've seen too many go a month here, sometimes even using a second intex system to help. The system is great for what it is, but its terrible at this.
You can drain it without taking it apart.
VS / VFD Pump & Flickering LED lights
- By Jimrahbe
- Pumps, Filters, and Plumbing
- 3 Replies
AC,
I removed the last sentence in your post, as that is not how our site works... Everything else you said is perfectly fine.
That said, until recently I had three pools that all had Pentair VS pumps.. The three different houses all had plenty of LED lights, cheap and other wise.. None of the houses had any flickering at all..
This complaint is not one that I have seen here before, so it must not be very common..
Not sure if you just got a bad pump, or your electrical gird is different in some way, or???
In any case, let's see if any of our members have seen this same issue.
Thanks,
Jim R.
I removed the last sentence in your post, as that is not how our site works... Everything else you said is perfectly fine.
That said, until recently I had three pools that all had Pentair VS pumps.. The three different houses all had plenty of LED lights, cheap and other wise.. None of the houses had any flickering at all..
This complaint is not one that I have seen here before, so it must not be very common..
Not sure if you just got a bad pump, or your electrical gird is different in some way, or???
In any case, let's see if any of our members have seen this same issue.
Thanks,
Jim R.
I'm going to lose my mind - plug stuck in skimmer pipe
- By allentam911
- Just Getting Started
- 13 Replies
First time pool owner. My pump is quite a bit higher than the pool level so I was told to get this priming plug so that I can easily reprime the pump.
It works, but then the black rubber part separated from the metal part and got sucked into the skimmer pipe.
The pipe is 2 inch and the plug is 1.5 inch. It allows some flow but it's not completely blocked. The pool company tried vacuuming or blowing it but it won't work because it's not a complete seal. But the flow is impeded enough that my filter only gets 2 psi.
I'm at my witts end here. I just got this property and just want to swim, already spent over 7,000 dollars and it's still not swimmable. The pool company can't get the plug out. Do I need to dig the pool out and basically remake the pool?
VS / VFD Pump & Flickering LED lights
- By aquacruise
- Pumps, Filters, and Plumbing
- 3 Replies
Just installed a new Pentair Superflo VST and immediately noticed all LED lights in the main house flicker when the pump is on. I've read about this issue several places and understand it's due to harmonic distortion from cheap VFD circuit back-feeding into the supply. Some say it's to do with cheap quality LEDs but I wanted to check this claim for myself (since mine aren't cheap LEDs!) So I hooked up a scope to the main load center and when the pump is running at full rpm the below pic shows the added noise on the bottom half of the sinewave of the 60Hz / 230V supply. Scale on scope is 20V per division so roughly 40V peak-peak noise - which is quite frankly ridiculous, regardless of high much you spend on LEDs, they are going to flicker with 40V noise @ 300-400Hz!! I am wondering if anyone has come up with a solution to this? I am looking at line reactor filters (e.g. LR2-21P0-1PH-A) to connect just before the supply, or possibly just an isolation transformer (not sure how effective it will be). Anyone tried this or have any insights? Thanks.
(P.S. before anyone asks, yes the wiring is 100%, no neutral or earthing issues, correct gauge wiring, separate subpanel, etc. In fact to double test, I switched it over to the old 2hp "on/off" style pump and the lights don't even blip when the pump kicks in with over 35amps of in-rush current! So this is definitely a VFD issue. Edit by Jim R.
(P.S. before anyone asks, yes the wiring is 100%, no neutral or earthing issues, correct gauge wiring, separate subpanel, etc. In fact to double test, I switched it over to the old 2hp "on/off" style pump and the lights don't even blip when the pump kicks in with over 35amps of in-rush current! So this is definitely a VFD issue. Edit by Jim R.
New Walls or no?
- By Maverick2022
- Above Ground Pools
- 4 Replies
Installing a new liner tomorrow, home owner has 20 year old walls. I suggested new walls because it is unsafe.. am I wrong?
New pool finished, but having issues with spa spillover.
- By ducknc
- Under Construction
- 11 Replies
