Hello TFP,
I am a newish pool owner. Just opened my SW pool for the first time after closing it in october. I have a pentair intelliflo/pro3 VSF pump, pentair quad DE filter and salt cell on the 15k gallon pool. I cleaned the filter yesterday which was moderately dirty and was vacuuming the pool with the dolphin yesterday. Last time I cleaned the filter was october. After cleaning the filter and adding the right amount of DE per manual, the pool was running at the settings that I had it on all year which is 40GPM (per the app) with the pump running at 65%, 10 PSI on the filter. Several hours later in the day I checked the app and it was saying the estimated GPM was fluctuating between 3-20 GPM at the same settings. The salt cell was reading low flow. The water level is appropriate, I emptied the skimmers and couldn't figure out why the flow would be low. I re-cleaned the filter thinking maybe it was clogged because I had been vaccuming the pool and the pool is fairly green. The skimmers initially were both working. The filter cleaning it the second time wasn't that dirty and I thought I had fixed the problem as again right after cleaning it, everything seemed to be working properly. I noticed over the next several hours the estimated GPM was slowly decreasing. As of this morning the filter is showing that at my original settings the PSI is 30 at the same settings and the estimated GPM is bouncing between 5-20GPM. I have no idea what is going on as the filters to my knowledge seem to be okay, the filter manifold isn't broken and both the skimmers were originally working. Please help because my stress is through the roof rn. What could this possible be so I know where to start? :')
I am a newish pool owner. Just opened my SW pool for the first time after closing it in october. I have a pentair intelliflo/pro3 VSF pump, pentair quad DE filter and salt cell on the 15k gallon pool. I cleaned the filter yesterday which was moderately dirty and was vacuuming the pool with the dolphin yesterday. Last time I cleaned the filter was october. After cleaning the filter and adding the right amount of DE per manual, the pool was running at the settings that I had it on all year which is 40GPM (per the app) with the pump running at 65%, 10 PSI on the filter. Several hours later in the day I checked the app and it was saying the estimated GPM was fluctuating between 3-20 GPM at the same settings. The salt cell was reading low flow. The water level is appropriate, I emptied the skimmers and couldn't figure out why the flow would be low. I re-cleaned the filter thinking maybe it was clogged because I had been vaccuming the pool and the pool is fairly green. The skimmers initially were both working. The filter cleaning it the second time wasn't that dirty and I thought I had fixed the problem as again right after cleaning it, everything seemed to be working properly. I noticed over the next several hours the estimated GPM was slowly decreasing. As of this morning the filter is showing that at my original settings the PSI is 30 at the same settings and the estimated GPM is bouncing between 5-20GPM. I have no idea what is going on as the filters to my knowledge seem to be okay, the filter manifold isn't broken and both the skimmers were originally working. Please help because my stress is through the roof rn. What could this possible be so I know where to start? :')
