Recent content by Bill Winston

Grabbing my popcorn - can’t wait to see your progress! Pics, pics! My wife loves dr pimple popper - I love slam pics. Very satisfying.

I also just blow mine off each time - I keep a can of dielectric grease spray - just a quick spray on both the S1 and the charger once every few weeks - seems to keep the connectors from corrosion. Silicone lube probably works better? spray easier to apply. All good - just to slow the pool...

Yes the plan is to run it as low as I can to save money and filter better etc. Seems we only have a choice of 1.5 or 3. I could get the 1.5, but apparently the way the power is consumed it would eat probably triple the power all else equal. The other problem is now that I have all the plastic...

thanks 1poolman1 for taking the time to comment on this - I learn so much from you and the other experts on this forum! I do like that the equipment that I have tends to be overkill for my little pool. The whisperflo 2HP and the FNS 60 and the 400k heater make this pool super easy to take care...

Mine still working since November - not very long yet - here's to hoping. I'm actually impressed with the filtering size. It seems to be able to pickup very very fine silt. Now if it would just get the horizontal bench surfaces and the corners between the wall and the floor. I am going to...

Good catch. I made a DIY nodejs PoolController from tagyoureit and the relayequipmentmanager from rstrause and got it running last June. I didn't know a lot at the time as I had just got the pool - I never finished the heater control part as it's quite easy to run from the front panel of the...

Hmmm... not sure why it's brittle then. All of the grids are brittle - as I was removing them from the manifolds the pipe part that goes in the manifolds were breaking and you could just snap them off with your hands. All of them were quite brittle. I opened this one as it had the most free...

Mystery solved. I figured I would just follow up in case it may help someone. They came from my filter grid elements. Who knows how old they were - not a single tear in the material covering the girds, but the plastic grids themselves were brittle and coming apart. I cut the worst one open...

I do not the versa bypass on the JXI heater. Here is a couple pics of the chlorinator. I couldn't see anything broken or missing in there... I get what your saying on the not making it through the heater... therefore it's not likely parts from the filter or the multi port valve. It looks...

I started getting low flow in my spa jets, upon inspection I found these pieces logged in the jet housings. I have also heard a couple times what sounded like pieces racing through the plumbing hitting corners and parts (not a pleasant sound at all). I replaced the check valve a year ago when...