Recent content by BkdGrain

I tested CYA every 2 or 3 days in last 3 weeks, I got Leslie's store to test water also, and their numbers were within 3ppm of mine. Yes, I am planning to build up CYA VERY slowly.

I am pretty sure I lost over 15ppm CYA in 3 weeks, we had lot of rain for 2 weeks and over 90 heat for last 1 week. I under estimated how much TX summer reduces CYA, should have stopped drain/refill when I got to 60/70, looks like if I don't add CYA or use pucks CYA will disappear by end of the...

How often?

I am getting to know my backyard more between lot of rain and trees loosing leaves (especially one day after rain) requiring more pool upkeep. My CYA seems to have gone <40, I tried several times with sun to my back, I feel like I can't see the dot and if I look at it for couple more seconds I...

Thanks, I will try that.

I used "GO-KIT-5" seal for non-salt water pools. I don't hear it at 1350, the whine/hum starts becoming audible at around 2000 RPM. The waterfall isn't effective at anything less than 1850RPM. I wish the fan only turned on based off of thermal switch. I just wanted to make sure the motor itself...

I am running 2850 - 2 hours, 2100 - 2 hours, 1350 - 6 hours, these settings are few hundred RPM less than default settings that it came with, my previous SS motor was running 3450 RPM for 5 hours. I thought my lowered settings are conservative enough. I find it hard to believe that the previous...

I switched from Century single speed 1.5HP motor to Century VGreen 165 VS motor, this motor has whine which gets louder with RPM increase, it's louder than single speed at similar RPM. Once you hear the whine that's all you hear, it can be heard from far (50ft even over the waterfall) at any RPM...

The 2.7 has better controls but doesn't show up as replacement for my 1.5HP SS motor, and it doesn't have setting to limit max RPM. I was afraid if I ever accidentally run it at max speed it will damage something in my plumbing or equipment. Does the VGreen 16.5 allow you run randomly just the...

I am unable to find Pentair Intelliflo (Model 11028 or 11056) pump at reasonable price, online companies who have it at normal price are cancelling orders saying they don't have in stock or won't ship to Texas and local installers are asking $2100 for VS pump w/ install. I am tempted to buy...

Your lucky day. I have this exact setup. My stupid polaris would go around randomly stirring up dust using >1kW dedicated booster pump for 6 hours a day. Now I spend 15 minutes/day to clean manually and use the booster pump during cleaning only. The below pictures were earlier version, first...

@mknauss @Texas Splash Happy to report that I got CYA down below 50 (45-50) after few drains. Next updates have to be VS Pump(so I can run pump longer) and Robot, but they seem to be OOS or overpriced right now. Hoping international shipping resumes soon to bring prices down.