Recent content by donnest

I have always used my suction side pool vac with the solar cover off. My thought was the hose floats a bit and this would allow for better movement of the vac. My question is does the solar cover HAVE to be off? Ran the vac today for 4 hours and i have more bugs on the pool surface now then...

FPM, after the CYA dissolved in a day as per your last post, does it then take another week to register on the CYA test? Or once it is disolved out of the sock should you be able to accurately test for total PPM? Does it take a week for the CYA to bond on a molecular level (or whatever it does)?

Have you looked where the hose comes in to the pump from the pool? There is a filter (of sorts) there. I know mine will get clogged with "stuff" when I use my pool vac.

new2me, Perhaps this should be a new thread, {Yes, indeed. Split and moved. JasonLion}, so as not to hijack the Intex SWG thread. I have only just begun to investigate the idea of building my own pool controller. However in doing so i also found the Goldline of controls from Hayward. These...

I think kdeweeh is referring to the combination unit (filter & SWG). I have one of those that ran flawlessly all last year. There would be no problem with just not putting the filter in and running the SWG as required. Just not too sure how it will pass water from your other pump / filter...

Goose, good to see you here as well, that hearth.com site can be hard to get away from. I use a SWG on my AGP and love it. We only bought our pool last year and after some research here, we went out and purchased the SWG. The pool was great all summer! At the end of the year we just dumped...

I am about to dump the water from my AGP, I have it set up with a Chlorine Generator (Intex). I live on an acreage so i need to dump the water out on to the ground. My question is "will this hurt the trees? It seems to be that the chlorine is already hard on the grass. The pool has about...