Recent content by Cloudy R718

Nice I think I'll go ahead and do that. By the way this site is amazing! I found it last year or the year before but I wasn't able to really start following the methods until this year when I finally got the proper test kit and I now have the clearest pool water I've ever seen and I'm using...

Oh wow that's way better and it looks like the same pump!

A local pool company which is a friend of mine recommended the black and decker variable speed pump.

Okay that makes sense I'm familiar with the extreme efficiency of variable speed motors so that does seem logical. I guess I need to look closer at the variable speed 1.5 horsepower pumps. Any recommendations on a particular model?

I've got an above ground fiberglass pool it's about 7863 gallons. And the pump is a jacuzzi J-P150 1.5 hp pump and the filter is a Hayward S210T. The guage pressure at the filter head is 23 psi when the filter is clean. My question is basically what can I do to decrease the power consumption...

Thanks. This site looks really good. Part of my problem is last year I was using tablets and I bought an inline chlorinator that I plumbed in after the pump and it didn't last. It quickly started leaking and then clogged so this year I hadn't really figured out how to chlorinate the pool other...

I am new to pool care and not doing so well especially with the insane chlorine prices this year so at the moment my pool is green and I hope to learn enough here to fix that affordably. I am in southwest OK and I came up with Cloudy R718 because R718 is the refrigerant number for water and my...