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I have 2 underwater lights about 10 years old, before LED's. Have changed the little thin tube halogen, same as work lights, just about every year. I think 500w each. This year, when I pulled one of them out, however, there was a little water inside, so I must have screwed up when I put the...

My 10 year old Thermospa Park Avenue just died. Fortunately, I have a neighbor who's both an electrician and who also owns a hot tub. When the break was tripped and the spa went down, his first guess was the heater. Sure enough, he unscrewed the two screws above the tube to disconnect the...

Never seen a setup like this. My pool, installed by the previous owner, does not have a separate PVC suction line from the main drain to the pump. One of the skimmers, the one closer to the pump has two holes in the bottom. One of them is the draw from the main drain and the other is the...

Jason, you nailed it. Thank you so much. I found that I had two air leaks in PVC joints on the suction side. One is on the vertical joint coming out of the pump on the way to the filter, there's a drip and another one on the last joint before the pump. Both look like there was some goo...

I can't get my pump to prime. It will get close and bubbles come out of returns, but then in less than 5 minutes, loses everything. Isolated each skimmer & main drain and in all three cases, with only one source open, same effect. Removed diffuser and visually inspected front of impeller, no...

yesterday, I bought a new O-ring for the cover at the pump where the basket is. applied jack lube to it as well. No difference. I'm getting scared that perhaps the very cold winter may have cracked an underground line and I'm going to be digging up a concrete deck and losing the season. $$$...

ok i think i have a problem. i don't have a skimmer isolation valve at the pump. so i replugged each skimmer, one at a time, just to see if that would isolate a clog or air leak and no go. then, just for kicks, something made me think to unscrew the 2 lower little plugs at the pump. the one...

I opened my pool easily last year, but did one additional thing this year, I removed and power washed all of the filter membranes from my Triton FNSP 60 and put everything back together. I removed all return plugs, inserted the plug into my pentair pump, ran a hose backwards from my pump to...

that's where I'm at now. cover off, gear module stored, now improvising on compressor hose with 2" opening. I guess this is why they sell a schrader plug with the tire style valve. any ideas other than that for back pressure?

Follow up: It just seems like with the 6 gallon compressor, there isn't enough pressure to get the Paramount module to spin around and blow out the zones one at a time, so I have to bring the air right to the dome.

My inground concrete pool has the in floor cleaning system from Paramount, which has a dome just above ground with one incoming chamber and 6 outgoing chambers, 1 for the side returns, and the other 5 for the 5 sets of pop ups on the floor of the pool. Most sites/forums/videos do a good job of...

While I have everyone's attention, how is my setup? I just bought this house and the pool went in around 2007. I'm particularly interested in the effectiveness of the Natural2 "sanitizer" that claims to greatly reduce reliance on chlorine and the 2 Aqua Doc magnetic things that I think are...

Bama Rambler, you nailed it! After each plug came out, a puff of built up pressure was relieved. I guess I'm lucky I didn't blow anything. put the gear in place and set to run, then closed up tight. Turned on the pump and water flowing everywhere. Skimmers working fine and I can see the pop...

ok, inside the "space ship" there's 7 chambers, each looks like it has a plug. found a matching piece in the shed that appears to go on top of them and has a series of gears at the top. the cover has a little handle that can point to run or stop. guess i have to pull all those plugs, too, but...

yes, there is a black dome thing a few inches out of the ground with a stainless clamp on it! maybe that has more plugs. what is it?