Recent content by danbutter

I have a pentair superflo VS pentair part# 342001 and I had planned on getting a pentair solar touch. However after reading the manual for it there doesn't seem to be compatibility there. At least not officially since they reference intelliflow pumps. So my question is what solar controller...

Thanks for the replies. My current dead pump is 3/4 on low and 1 1/2 HP on high and was a pentair so a new one is a drop in replacement which is good for getting it closed this year. Low was enough flow to keep the SWG going. So I think from what I have read that the pentair 1-1/2 hp Superflo...

My old pump has started to die and I am just hoping to make it through closing for the season. Right now the dying pump is two speed and is only working on low anymore. It just makes a very short lived try and then clicks off when I try the high speed. Next year when I open I want to redo most...

Well the shell is bonded and I can get continuity from the screws on the heater to the ground rod, but yet taking a wire from the ground rod where all the equipment is bonded all the way to the pool and tossing it in results in less of a shock. I'll have to dismantle the heater (raypak 2100) to...

That is something I was investigating tonight and if I wet the concrete then put my hand on the wet concrete and one hand in the pool I do feel it where I have a cut on my hand. This is anywhere around the pool touching just wet concrete and the water. Have not made it to the heater to try and...

Me too. From the lineman who found the issue. I'll be pressing them for info when they show up tomorrow.

Yes I do have a heater. I was just thinking about that too. It's original and rather rusty...I wonder if I would be able to re-bond it in a location that is a bit less rusty. I'll look for the heat exchanger and see what type of clamp I need. As for the deck box...not sure what that means. I...

My family is seeing a few shocks. I did a search here on shocking pools and got lots of threads which I have read in their entirety. I'm seeing Around a volt from a railing pocket at our stairs to the water. No Amps measurable. Not mili not micro, nothing. I see about .3 to .4 volts from a...

Well I can't say what happened. I usually call this CBM (cleared by magic). I inspected the cell and it looked clean, no scale and nothing in it. I put it back together and tried again and it started up and has been going ever since.

I used the taylor drop test with the silver nitrate to determine I am at 3200ppm for the salt. The "instant" value goes to 9999 and then falls to around 2600 before it says check salt and inspect cell. We just bought this place so I'll have to look and see if the previous owner left anything...

I kept reading and eventually found this post: aquarite-not-generating-lights-not-on-t18264.html where they talk about the current limiting resistor going bad. I ordered one from digikey... desoldered the old one and soldered the new one in and the thing comes right up! Now I have a new issue...

Wow! I came here searching for answers about my new (to me) aquarite and am having the same issues. I gave the unit power and it lights up does the no flow for a min then when I turn on it says generating. First time I left and did other stuff. When I came back to check on it the display was...

Just to update this thread for any who come searching and find it... I eventually did get my replacement pump after a month of having a pool on my pool cover. Now in march 2011 the replacement has broken as well. I used this one to get the water off the cover last year that had been left by...

Once I cover mine I turn the pump off until it gets cold enough to freeze and then I start running it again.

My opinion on leaving a robot in when you shock is that you must! If you need to shock then I'll assume you most likely have algae. If you have algae when your robot is in the water and you take it out to shock.... wait until that process is done and then put the robot back in all you are doing...