Hey everyone! I've been creeping a while, but finally decided to join up and chip in where I can! I live in Texas and have a 20k gallon pool with a hot tub (which I love) that I take care of myself (which I hate). I'm running pretty much all Pentair stuff, and am not afraid to do stuff myself or take things apart when needed. I look forward to getting to know you guys!
Correct as mentioned it does nothing. I set it to 100 and it did nothing but turn green. I will have to figure out where the firemans switch (loop) is on that heater and change over to that. But I might run a new control wire first to make sure its not just the wire.
I did see they have a bunch of control wires tied together with wire nuts. Where I have all of mine going to the connector itself.
Owned a pool for a few years. Before I found this site, I was going to the pool store and taking their advice. Pool chemistry was out of control. 1 year ago I bought the recommended pool water testing kit and have not gone back to the pool store since. No giant algae blooms, wasting chlorine, etc. Online pool calculator makes it such a breeze that I don't even bother to use the chemicals add charts from the kit anymore and have not had any issues.
Do I need to drain? It’s a chlorine pool with a cartridge filter. Weighing cost and time associated with letting the filter get all the matter out vs. the water replace method. Any opinions?
I have been fixing my pool for about 10 years. I have waved the white flag and called in professionals a few times but pretty determined to do it on my own. Even if I had the extra money, it feels wasteful if I can do it myself. Thanks all!
Got it up to ~9.5 FC with the last addition! I added a small amount as instructed by pool math and will wait a bit to test one more time tonight. Thanks for the help.
This is why my wife is frustrated that I still have two 4 packs of cartridges in the garage. They were old stock Pleatcos at $125 per 4 pack. Kind of hard to beat.
I tested my water and my pH is 7.4 and Total Alkalinity is 100. Pool math recommends adding 4 lbs of Borax to increase the pH to 7.6. But it also recommends lowering the pH to 7.0-7.2 to reduce the Total Alkalinity.
Pool math is only a calculator, not a set of guidelines. The targets can be edited and initial values are just set to the middle of the recommended range.
