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What help do you need. Will be happy to help if I can

Jets are turned down but have spillway from the spa to keep water balance 2 hours a day The PH goes above the max on the test kit in just few days

Hi all, I am going in vacation for 20 days and I have some questions regarding the pool. I have SWG and it works awesome. I also have rising PH as you can tell. I have no one that I can trust to mesure the PH and adding acid every other day :( I don't want to het the PH crazy high and damage...

The pool has direct sun from sunrise to about 5 pm and it is in vegas - sun is shining every day ;)

Hi all, I received my new reagents for the tf-100 kit and tested everything. The FC came up to 12 with CYA at 70 the normal levels according to the pool math are 5-7 so I decided to turn off the cell until in the target range then to adjust the cell duty. For the pas two days I lost les than...

I have TF-100 kit. Just ordered replacement reagent since I am not sure mine are still good. The results with iron and copper are made at pool supply store and confirmed with my kit. I also ordered from tftest salt water test so I can monitor the salt level since the cell gives me wide range...

Hi all, I have strange problem with my easytouch regarding solar heating operation. I set the target temp as 86F/30C, pool temp is 86F/30C, Air temp is 92F/33C, Solar temp is 107F/38C, start temp is 6F/4C, run temp is 3F/2C. Once the target temp is reached the solar valve and pump speed...

so after today's test of the water I got this results: SALT - 3700 /the cell shows 3900/ FAC - 5 /the cell is at 40%/ TAC - 5 CH - 300 CYA - 65 TA - 110 PH - 7.6 COPPER - 0 IRON - 0 TDS - 1500 PHO - 200 It look like I am within the specs according to this link: Pool School - Water Balance for...

Hi Jim, Thank you for your help. I tested it with different speeds for the pump and spillway on aux 6 and 7 and it works. I might be working last Friday but I expected to see the LED illuminated which obviously not going to happen but it dost what I want it to do :) Thanks

I brushed the salt and the pump was running for 6 hours and at the moment there is no trace of undissolved salt in the pool. I am going to be out of the town for the weekend but when back will test again

Hi Jim, I played with my easytouch 4 this afternoon and even called pentair cust support but my battery went dead after 40 mins on hold :( I can asign functions to aux-4-7 and schedule them but no luck with calling them with button press. Can you please explain ho did you make it to work...

I expected answer like this but couldn't resist ;) is it normal the salt reading to lower or to rise after first 24 hours?

OK, I got replaced about half of the water with fresh one and CYA came down to 70 :) this is the whole test: FAC - 3 TAC - 3 CH - 300 CYA - 70 TA - 120 PH - 7.6 COPPER - 0 IRON - 0 TDS - 1200 PHO - 200 This is before adding salt. According to the Water Balance for a SWCG pool link my TA is...

I also w0nder if I can still AUX4-7 wit easytouch 4 for futures that don't require relays. Any ideas?

Thanks for the link. My CYA was well above 100 /may be arround 140/ which i double the recommended in the link.