Hello,
I've recently gotten my pool from a total swamp state to clean water and I've been having an issue with my salt cell. At first it would warn of low amps (26V 2.8A). So I decided to clean the cell using water and muriatic acid according to instructions in the manual. I don't believe there was much or any calcium build up because it didn't bubble much at all and I don't see any white stuff on the blades.
Looking at the blades in the salt cell I see what appears to be black or maybe dark green build up in between the blades. I thought maybe it was some kind of algae considering the pool was in a swamp state. Even though I couldn't find any information on this, I tried putting some liquid chlorine in the cell to clean it. Adding the liquid chlorine caused it to bubble a lot, I only let it sit a few minutes out of fear that it would mess up the cell even more, but it was obviously reacting to something. There was a large chunk of gunk near enough to the edge that was stuck in between two blades that I managed to get out with a plastic straw.
I also noticed that the two outter most blades were slightly shorter than the middle blades.
I reinstalled the salt cell and cleaned the connectors and cell cord contacts as well as I could. The salt cell appeared to be working again fine (17V 4.9A) with no warning messages all evening.
This morning I go out and check and I have a different error message "warning! check/clean cell" and its running at 25V 3.1A. Previously it was a message specifically about "low amps". EDIT: Now it cycles between "check/clean cell" and "low amps" messages.
Should I try cleaning with liquid chlorine again? Or some kind of way to manually clean between the blades? Really trying to avoid spending $400+ on a new salt cell when this one is only 3 years old.
Thanks!
I've recently gotten my pool from a total swamp state to clean water and I've been having an issue with my salt cell. At first it would warn of low amps (26V 2.8A). So I decided to clean the cell using water and muriatic acid according to instructions in the manual. I don't believe there was much or any calcium build up because it didn't bubble much at all and I don't see any white stuff on the blades.
Looking at the blades in the salt cell I see what appears to be black or maybe dark green build up in between the blades. I thought maybe it was some kind of algae considering the pool was in a swamp state. Even though I couldn't find any information on this, I tried putting some liquid chlorine in the cell to clean it. Adding the liquid chlorine caused it to bubble a lot, I only let it sit a few minutes out of fear that it would mess up the cell even more, but it was obviously reacting to something. There was a large chunk of gunk near enough to the edge that was stuck in between two blades that I managed to get out with a plastic straw.
I also noticed that the two outter most blades were slightly shorter than the middle blades.
I reinstalled the salt cell and cleaned the connectors and cell cord contacts as well as I could. The salt cell appeared to be working again fine (17V 4.9A) with no warning messages all evening.
This morning I go out and check and I have a different error message "warning! check/clean cell" and its running at 25V 3.1A. Previously it was a message specifically about "low amps". EDIT: Now it cycles between "check/clean cell" and "low amps" messages.
Should I try cleaning with liquid chlorine again? Or some kind of way to manually clean between the blades? Really trying to avoid spending $400+ on a new salt cell when this one is only 3 years old.
Thanks!
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