They're in business to sell and make money, of course, so abandoning a product that's so closely integrated into the function of other Pentair products was kind of a head scratcher to me. Hopefully the prior post, wherever I found it, was just not quite right.
Pools are like BOATS (Bust Out Another Thousand)....but I have yet to hear of a quippy acronym for POOL.
I went with the Time Capsule over the Extreme. It's still in my system, for Time Machine, but I recently upgraded to a mesh WiFi setup because the Airport stuff couldn't keep up with my latest Apple devices, bandwidth-wise. I had to buy three systems. Threw away the first, returned the second, and maybe have settled on this third one that works well enough. The first two were both fast enough, they just couldn't do all that the Airport system could do. This third one is close enough.
Perfect Option Outside Labor? Please Overlook Our Liabilities? Nope, neither one is quippy, I'll keep trying.
Correction and me too -- I still have an Express and a Time Capsule, not an Extreme, in service. That Time Capsule still serves in all its functions including in-the-background automatic backups for our Macs. I try not to even think about it because I don't want to jinx them, but the fact that both of these Apple routers+ are still in service after all these years later is borderline unbelievable, especially because ... we had a terrible storm related power-surge last year. It badly damaged our HVAC, multiple networking devices, a flat panel TV, a projector, two disc players, an AVR, multiple speakers, multiple streaming boxes, created the first clicking GFCI I'd ever heard, all kinds of damage. Just figuring out what had been hit was difficult since so many things just weren't working. Within the first hour as the scope of the problem was starting to become clear, I thought Oh Crud, I bet we finally lost the Time Capsule. The TC was in the same cabinet, and on the same circuit, where I had already identified a dead ethernet switch, a dead disc player and two dead streaming devices. Not just the same circuit, but it was also wired to the same dead ethernet switch as one of the dead disc players and two of the dead streaming devices. But after replacing the ethernet switch, the bloody Time Capsule came back up and ran normally. Surge? I don't care, they built me right. Still can't believe it.
That is unbelievable. And I'm amazed mine is still ticking. They get really hot, and I can't believe it hasn't cooked itself. I've replaced the hard drive several times, still going. At one point I either couldn't figure out how to get the case back together, or did so on purpose, but I left the bottom off. Then raised it up about 3/8" with some rubber feet I had laying around. I'm thinking that helps cool it off some.
Oh wait, that's good too. A virtual tie. But you may have to come in second since you cheated a little bit.
For years I've saved the plastic tops that come on cans of (a) my antiperspirant and (b) some stranger's minoxidil. Their uniformity is helpful for raising larger devices that run hot. Two sided stickies holds those legs secure. tight. Smaller streaming boxes (Roku, ATV) can run crazy hot too. A single wine cork dead center lifts those uniformly and lets them breathe from the bottom. If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.
Just pulled the cell again and made sure that o-ring was seated properly, put the cell back in line, tightened it back up, started the pump, leak unchanged.
Thanks LP, I will do that. Did not know this was a common hiccup. I had blissfully dodged it for years over the course of many o-rings. I'll go back to it after this thunderstorm blows by.
