Recent content by CivengPE

I am trying to understand the mechanics of how this thing is supposed to increase the velocity through the skimmer opening. The flow through the opening can be expressed by Q=VA. Q (flow) is determined by the pump. This number doesn't change whether the skim-a-round is installed or not. A...

I have determined that a robot might actually be the right choice for me. The distance between the bar stools is 10"-12" and most robots are wider than this so getting stuck probably wont be an issue. do you guys have any advice on a make and model? I think I would like something that is...

Just to close the loop on this, my PB came out last week and blew compressed air through the main drain lines. Lo and behold, there was debris in the lines. I am now able to confirm that flow is in fact going through the main drains. I still have a cavitation issue when I switch to main...

It is plumbed to a single eyeball return. I will give that a try. Thanks for all of the advice on this. :cheers:

When I ran the test last nigh, the only return paths were the 6 eyeball jets and the ozonator. I guess my next step is to close off the ozonator path and see what happens.

I believe the line is 2" all the way to the main drain area, it then splits to pick up the 4 individual drains. I will pace it off when I get home, but I imagine that the total length is probably 80' or so. There are 4 possible return paths. 6 return eyeballs and one for the ozonator...

It's just sch80 PVC painted black by the PB to protect from UV and look cool.

Not that I am aware of.

I also took a video of the pressure drop when I switch to the main drains: [youtube:1n7hoayj]JIA16PCXP-8[/youtube:1n7hoayj]

Last weekend we got into our new pool and while swimming I noticed that I could feel no flow into the main trains when I dove down to them and covered them with my hands. Since our PB installed 4 main drains I didn't think too much about this, but decided to perform some more tests. First, I...

Thanks for the advice. As a new virgin pool owner it is hard to ignore the constant stream of Barbara Streisand coming from the PB and Pool store. Thank God I have this place! I have been following the advice from this forum and have crystal clear pool so far!!! :party:

Well my Taylor copper test kit arrived today from TFtestkits. I ran the test twice with the same results....0 copper. Go figure. The pool company test was bogus after all...I bet the phosphate test is wrong as well.

Well I think I have it down now. I judge the PH to be 7.8 when I got home this evening. When I used the pool calculator to calculate the amount of MA it was spot on with my retest after addition. I will just have to get used to telling different shades of pink apart! Thanks for all of the advice.

I was wondering if there may be a better mouse trap out there as to measuring PH. I have been using the OTO kit that came in the TF100 kit, but I really suck at telling the difference between the colors. The drop based tests in the TF100 are awesome and leave very little to interpretation. Is...