Recent content by allan1622

My water chemistry is balanced fortunately, but I’m curious to know what the protocol should be. On my old single speed, I’d run it overnight and continue to SLAM until clear. Also, is it true you shouldn’t run a VSP at max exceeding 4 hours?

It's always been quite loose, but I'd always just shut the pump off and insert it back in. I'm guessing it's time to replace the fitting itself, but I don't even know what brand fitting the jets are (the pool is over 20+ years old)

Pump has been installed! Right now, I'm reading the manual and trying to figure out an optimal speed/rpm schedule. There seems to be a ton of conflicting info in regard to that. I'm assuming it's because everyone's situation is unique. No salt system, yet..

Should I just toss the basket in there? I’m overly protective about the Dolphin and it’s internals 😂

Yep, I am like you haha. We’ll see! Fingers crossed, tomorrow is install day. I’ve never had to deal with so much algae at once so I’m weirdly looking forward to the battle :cool:

Any in particular? I feel like we have half a dozen Clorox sprays at home haha

We have a dolphin nautilus CC that I baby 99% of the time. Our 10+ year old pump took a dump and the pool has become an algae riddled mess. That being said, tomorrow we should have a brand new variable speed pump. I foolishly left the robot in the pool and now it seems to have “algae stains”...

Wow that's a better deal than the quote I received this morning for a Pentair system (I forgot the exact model). Thanks!

Just wanted to give you an update. After getting several quotes, it seems that the best price is $1400 for a Hayward MaxFlo XE VS 1.65 pump (including install). The father-in-law wants to essentially gift us a salt system, but generally, how pricey are the cell replacements? I'm sure it can...

Yeah, I think it’s a wrap. Changed everything included in the go-kit and it improved maybe ~5% at most. We’re doing repairs and renovations at home so this couldn’t come at a worse time, lol.

Opened it up…

I will consider it once I figure out this leak issue. Thank you though, I honestly never even considered doing this as an option.

Got it. I noticed you said to not use silicon or PTFE lube in that post from 2022. Do you still recommend not doing so?