Recent content by crabtrp

And this might be my backup. I need to check to see if it is the same dimensions as my B&D so it could slip right into place. Thanks!

I got a B&D 3HP in Feb 2022. By June of 2023 the pump had started coming apart in the middle and was leaking a little. One day I ran it on max for a quick clean and it started spraying water half way up my house. To be fair, the Amazon vendor (Pool parts to go) dispatched a replacement the next...

I’ve been handling this over the last few days. I have my waterfall going all day and the pool gets to 7.8ish on Ph, I add some acid to get it down to 7.2. Repeat. My TA has come from 150 to (just now tested) 80. It has taken about 8 days. I plan to try for 70 tomorrow then maintain there with...

I think you have all convinced me to at least explore converting to salt. I really appreciate the info. This site has become invaluable in the short time I have been on it. Thanks!

It is how it was programmed out of the box. Never felt the need to change it :) I am certainly open to run it differently if it makes more sense. It is my first VS pump, I had a 1 speed pump previously that came when the pool was built, it lasted until 2022.

I run my pump 18 hours a day at speeds of 3000 for 2 hrs, 1500 for 10 hrs, 2500 for 2, and finally 1000 for 4hrs. It gets to sleep between 1 am and 7 am. I am becoming intrigued at the idea of converting to salt.

Don't you need to run your pump a lot for the transition from salt to chlorine to take place?

I have not looked into that. I think I am too ingrained with chlorine. Though the price of chlorine is ridiculous.

Hi. I am a 22 year pool owner. I’ve basically been doing it wrong all of this time. I did some testing but as long as the pool looked fine I was OK. I got black algae in 2019 and had to have a re-surface done. Lesson not learned. All great again until a month ago, started to get some black...