Recent content by aholmes5

For anyone stumbling on this thread, I'm on year 15 of my Master Temp with a salt water pool in Houston, TX and still going strong. During that time I've had to replace the manifold o-ring, the thermal regulator, and the high limit switch (~$105 in parts). To me the titanium system is in no...

Here's the rectifier part on the SWC board at Digi-Key: https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/micro-commercial-co/MB251W-BP/773591 Its listed as having an operating range of -55 to +125C (-67 to +257F). 125C is pretty hot and there has to be some decent heat transfer to the metal...

Man - I'm so grateful for this post. I just upgrade a "legacy" easy touch system as well and @tclayton10's instructions are perfect. I believe he might have listed the part number wrong for the upgrade kit - it should be 522046 for legacy systems with joint pool/spa. I followed all his...

Thanks! Did you have to move the salt cell board from the floor of the low voltage section to the back wall?

It looks like in the manual for the IntelliCenter Legacy Upgrade there is an issue upgrading from the Legacy EasyTouch 8 that has a circuit breaker for the SWG. I have the legacy ET8 with the IC40 and it has a round circuit breaker that sticks out through a hole in the control panel. Does...

For those that have an intelliPh acid dispenser, you will eventually have a pump tube rupture. There is a good possibility that you won't notice this until your pH has climbed significantly. Unfortunately, when the pump tube (Pentair 522480) breaks, muratic acid will tend to get everywhere...

OK thanks. My grids are pretty old (~10years). Maybe time to replace them all.

Possibly - I had DE in the pool the last time I refilled the filter with DE. I had assumed the multi port valve didn’t seat right but it could have been one of the screens.

I took apart my heater (Pentair Mastertemp 400) to replace my manifold bypass. Inside the manifold I found 3 of these pieces. Inspect the outflow through the salt cell and return valve and didn't find anything else. They are a stiff plastic and it looks like one side was glued to something at...

Great thanks. I'm definitely going to put that in the next time I take the filter apart. I assume you've had no issues with leaking?

Do you have a picture of the ball valve you used? That seems like a great idea.

I have a DE filter on my pool. I have stopped backwashing. When its time to clean the filter, I shutoff the pump, turn the valve to backwash and open the air vent at the top. This lets most of the water drain from the filter into the drain line. Then I disassemble everything and scrap the...

Hello - My gunite salt-water pool has the following chemistry by the TF100 kit: FC 5 CC < 0.5 CYA 40 ph 7.5 TA 80 CH 210 Bor 50 Salt 3000 Do I still need to raise the CYA to the 70-80 range (recommended for SWG pools) if I am able to keep FC in the recommended range (5-7)? I have a...

My problem is that I need something to run daily and can't be pulling something in and out of the pool constantly. Are there robots that can be left in the pool, plugged in all the time and scheduled to run daily?