Recent content by ChrisNorcal

Thank-you, thank-you!! Mark and Dave!! I was wondering what those tan items were, thought they were some type of patch kit. If I'm going to be cutting into the pipe, would it be best to replace them or do rarely go bad? If I'm going to do this, should I also put a flowmeter in on the solar...

It works, not as good as I think it really could but it works. The panels are on the 2nd story. I looked at all of the valves and it currently doesn't have any check valves and all of the valves are manual. I noticed if I had both valves (to and from) to the solar open, I don't get a flow...

Mark, Appreciate the reply. Below is a picture of the pad with everything called out as I have it today. Sorry about the pumps/motors, did I mention that I'm a newbie? :| The main pump is a Hayward pump, don't know the model yet. I can't find a tag on the solar pump. To answer your question...

I'm a new pool owner and the pump to our solar isn't working. According to the pool service, it hasn't worked for at least 4 years. I did some testing of the solar system and it appears to be in working condition otherwise, no leaks. The broken solar pump is connected to the return line via a T...

Sorry for not posting back earlier on this. Just wanted to say thanks a bunch for all your help. I ended up doing about 85% dump of the pool two weeks ago and everything looks great, except my marriage took a hit. Probably will once more when the bill arrives, but I was able to get some water...

Appreciate the info. I'll be draining it this week after I get a chance to see if I can get the solar working. Not sure what would be dumped in after 6 years of sitting. Also, I don't think my groundwater is close to the bottom of the pool. Where would I check on that?

Okay, So did I say I was newbie? So I don't now how, but I missed the 9.b part of tap water and originally read that as filling it with the reagent. This makes more since :hammer: So I've ran these tests twice (sometimes 3x's) FC=9.5 (19 drops) CC=1 (2 Drops) TC=10.5 pH=7.2 TA=80 (8 Drops)...

@JohnN: I didn't either until I was looking at ordering a bunch of other stuff and saw they sold the TF-100. Then when I was checking on shipping and noticed it ships right up the street from me. Figured I'd go see them instead and had my water tested at the same time.

That was helpful. I remember reading it before but forgot about it when I got the kit, I was a little eager. I didn't let the test warm up to room temp and I'm pretty sure I didn't have my back to the sun. I'm not a chemist but on the post mentioned for High CYA tests, 9.E, shows that you...

Don't know about who sells it, but I found out that they are 5 mins from my house. Since I saw their name on this forum and when I search the web I figured I'd save on shipping. Unfortunately they don't sell, I didn't ask, the XL option but I figured this will get me started for now.

Sorry, should have been more clear. My notes show that when the tube was being filled I didn't even make it half way to the 100 mark. I'm going to do this test again today as I'm not positive if I had my back to the sun when I did the test.

Thank-you for catching that. I've edited the original post and I see where I went wrong. I was using the FAS/DPD test for this as the blue kit shows it at or above the color chart. I'm prepared to drain, just didn't want to because I'm not positive if I'm metered yet. If I'm not, I will be in...

I just bought a house, short sale, with a pool and since I’ve never owned a pool before I was doing some research and found this website. First off let me say, this doesn’t look to hard and with the help of TFP I’m sure it’ll be easy. Besides I love to tinker with things and this looks like a...