Mr. Muriaticacid said:

I was afraid that it would totally separate one day when I wasn’t around and cause major chaos to my equipment! It was painful to shell out $1400 but you can’t put a price on safety.

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I fully agree that Murphy is a jerkwad.

Here's the deconstruction thread so you can see what's going on inside.


I'm 99.6% sure its a hairline crack inside that would never cause a problem. So long as you don't leave the property for more than an hour. And sleeping is out too. But otherwise, it'll never fail.

LordNorth said:

I have been running high speed on the pump trying to turn over the water as fast as possible

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I am firmly on team 'more flow makes more mixing'.

You can also speed it along by adding DE

DaveInPhx said:

Scrolling through the menus to toggle a circuit is more complicated than I'm interested in

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Dave,

Whatever works for you, but it is right at the first page and takes less than 10 seconds..

I suspect that what is happening with the heater is that they have a speed assigned to the "Either heater" circuit, on the pump speed page. So, when he pushes the heater button, the system calls for heat which in turn tells the pump to increase to whatever speed is assigned to "Either heater". Not quite the same as assigning a random circuit name to the heater button..

ScreenLogic is old and does not work well with the new mesh home Wi-Fi systems.. Is that what the installed?

Thanks,

Jim R.

paul1971 said:

Just surprised about their salt reading at 1000.

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Salt, CH and CYA need 24 hours to mix at opening the same way they do during the season.

I have the sock attached with the clamp. And I ordered a replacement for the broken part

The precise level of borates is not important. Any level over 50 ppm gets the desired results. Test strips can indicate when it is time to add some.

Jimrahbe said:

Dave,

"Pool High" is just a Circuit Name.. It could be "Jim"... It is just a name, that by itself, does nothing..

What does it do on a schedule?? I suspect it just changes the pump speed.

I don't see how you could assign it to the heater button...

If it just changes the pump speed, then most likely it is a Feature Circuit.. If that is the case, it can be turned on or off by using the little 3" LCD

Menu, scroll to find Feature Circuit with a name of "Pool High" and turn it on or off..

Edit... What is it you are actually trying to do??

Thanks,

Jim R.

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Edit: Well, nevermind. I just read through the manual and it says that the Solar button can only be used in Service mode. But it also says the same thing about the Heater button, and also that it does not activate the pump(!), so now I'm curious about what I thought was going on with Customer B's panel. We shall see....

Edit 2: The plot thickens! The manual says the Solar button can be used outside of Service Mode to control the AUX EXTRA circuit. It looks like I can assign Pool High to AUX EXTRA, set it as an egg timer schedule and activate it with the Solar button. I will post back my results.

Thanks, Jim. I knew that about the circuit name, and Pool High does in fact just kick the pump speed up for the cleaning cycle.

Scrolling through the menus to toggle a circuit is more complicated than I'm interested in, and I'd just as soon put the panel into timeout and hit Quick Clean on the pump.

I have another customer that I'm certain has the heater button programmed to run a higher pump speed and nothing else (he has no heater), but I'll have to check this when I'm at his pool this coming week. I don't know if Heater and Solar operate differently, but I'll confirm and, if I'm right about Heater, I'll poke around in the settings to see how it was configured.

Customer A has his panel connected to a Screenlogic interface which would be just fine, but something happened with his home internet and now neither of us can connect to Screenlogic from the app.

That is normal.

fabsroman said:

An analogy that I can use is a vehicle starting up, you driving a mile down the road, the vehicle deciding that the mpg/efficiency of the engine is not optimal, and then shutting down. I guess another vehicle analogy is that an emission sensor returns a code and the vehicle's computer just decides to shut down.

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I have owned cars like that.

ajw22 said:

Seems the cell was not insane all along.

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Yeah, you continue to harp on that.

I still think it is insane that it WILL produce chlorine upon startup, but it then determines that the parameters are not good enough to create chlorine anymore.

An analogy that I can use is a vehicle starting up, you driving a mile down the road, the vehicle deciding that the mpg/efficiency of the engine is not optimal, and then shutting down. I guess another vehicle analogy is that an emission sensor returns a code and the vehicle's computer just decides to shut down.

Sort of like somebody saying, "Sure I can do it, but I just don't feel like doing it because it is too much work."

Sounds like insanity to me, but we can agree to disagree on this one.

I wrote about that recently...

PoolStored said:

Yeah, turn it off, and let FC come back down into range for your CYA. Link-->FC/CYA Levels
Then turn it back on.
In the future, tell them you want a "no chemical" opening at a reduced cost.
You can handle startup.

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Totally also because the only thing they put is LC…..
Just surprised about their salt reading at 1000. They were ready to add 200 LBS of salt…..crazy

Jim,

This morning both buttons worked just fine. It seems there was some sort of electrical connection issue in the switches that wore off after many presses. I saw the blinking (once or twice) of the power light today that let's me know the robot is ON. However, this afternoon the Start/Stop button had problems again. Rapid pressing again did get it to turn ON, so I'm thinking it will just improve over time.

If others have problems initially with the buttons on the control box, just press them firmly many times in rapid succession. That should get you going.

For the dust, I don't really mind that it takes a few runs to get it up. It is such great help to me versus manual vacuuming that I don't mind it at all. I do need to help it out a little in areas like corner platforms, steps and sharpish pool corners, but I just brush those to the bottom and the bot gets them there. Yes, I use the optional Fine Filter Canister (it is truly EXTRA fine!) and recommend that to others if you have fine stuff to vacuum up.

And the filter is so fast & easy to clean! Just spray it briefly with water and everything just slides right out.

Until I make or buy a caddy, just a couple of 7-inch scrap 2x4 pieces side-by-side works well to elevate the treads and brushes off the floor for storing out of the pool (and in the shade).


Thanks Jim, for your robot (and other) expertise helping everyone here.

seemed ok. It hasn’t leaked anymore but I see the water level down a little each morning. I skimped on lube when putting the lid gasket for the pump so maybe that? And the gasket is still original so 4 years old but seems ok. At least no more leaking

1poolman1 said:

Spoke with a friend who is a builder. While the diagrams usually show the installation in a horizontal orientation, the fixture can be installed in any way that will provide the desired effect. That may be what the builder of your pool did.
Its not pressure, but flow, that determines the way those falls look, usually requiring 20 - 30 GPM/foot of length.

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Thanks for the additional information. If this waterfall fixture is designed to be installed upside down, as it was in this case, then the design would have considered water that is retained after winterization, and that shouldn't have been the cause of the damage. So still curious about that.

Welcome to TFP.

I would use a mortar, not hydraulic cement, to create a smooth bed for the tile.

See the products listed under 2B or an equivalent.

Clean off all the old mortar or cement down to solid gunite using an oscillating tool with a grout blade. Preparation is 70% of the project.

That is a good sand filter if you have 1.5" pipes.

If you have 2" pipes get the same model with the SP071621 2" control valve.

I am in the screen logic app on my phone. This is within the speed control portion of the app, not pool or cleaner although they are indirectly affected because the speed set in Pump section tells the pump what speed to run for each of those settings. Here is a screen recording. You can see when I change the speed of the last two, they just revert back and actually change the speed above them. When I change the speed on the Pool setting at the top, it holds, maybe because it doesn't have a setting above it, IDK. Turns out I can't attach a screen recording. but here is a screenshot I have used for many years to change speeds.

Oh, and you can change the speeds with the remote. I believe it is/was called the Mobiletouch. I still have it laying around so I tried that too to no avail.

They don't care. They just want to sell their product.

Good catch!

1poolman1 said:

https://poolpartstogo.com/products/automation-variable-speed-adapter.

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Dead link for me...

duxthaman said:

It says model is WF-28

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Uprated Whisperflow. You can change the motor to a variable-speed one.

With rodents in the heater and blowing out two transformers, I would have advised replacing the heater three years ago. Rodents can trash a heater.

Arrived today and plan to install this weekend. Just out of curiosity, did yours arrive all wired up? With a 110v plug and ifi module already wired into the controller?

justjenn33 said:

How do I check the if the connection is RS485? The model is BT-IGV150.

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That pump is the same as the Calimar/Circupool/Black&Decker. It will require the automation adapter to be controlled somewhat automation. It allows relay inputs to change the speeds that are set in the motor itself. That makes any brand automation able to have some control.

It says model is WF-28