Recent content by entropic

Happy to see this thread. We got our Instapark Betta in July of 2021 and had issues where it had to be sent back in Jan '22, Mar '22, Aug '22 and Nov '22. In the Aug '22 repair, they sent us a refurb unit, I believe it was a refurb Betta 2.0, an upgrade from our original order. Since that Nov...

Thanks Jim! Much appreciated. I do use the weekly scheduling feature of my current unit, sometimes, but I don't think it's a must-have for me. It's funny that it's not there.

Hi Jim. I know it's only been about a week since your last update, but are you still feeling the same way about the 614i? Our 5yo S300i seems to have bit the dust over the weekend and I'm mulling our options...

Loving the update! Had an issue at first where it wouldn't take a new log entry but clearing the data and cache and re-signing in made it all work. Great job team!

In Tucson... Basically my entire yard was in the pool yesterday. Came close to ordering one of those top-skimming robot do-hickies.

Thanks for all the help, guys! Yeah good call. I didn't add any CH, it was just testing at 250 at that moment. It tested back at 225 yesterday. I don't plan on adding CH if I can keep everything else in check. It was 1100 when I drained it so I can forsee problems. My city fill water tests at...

Yep, sure did, about 5 pounds of dry CYA from a sock. Spent a lot of time brushing to mix in the bits that escaped. Yep, been reading as much as I can for the past few months and going to try to take it on myself. Was able to get the FC up to 6.5 and pH up slightly, and the CH up to 250...

Indeed! What I was told was a 18k gallon pool, and thought was more like 15k, measured out at 13,150 gallons on the meter. We had some light sprinkling yesterday (I was thankful for the clouds and temperature drop) but I don't think it added much water, probably made up for splashing-out we did...

Yeah, and I can very much see how that could happen! I get the sense that for many people that as long as the water's not green or black it must be perfect but I've got higher standards than that. It's a good point you make, triptyx. My apprehension is probably unnecessary, but was based a bit...

Thanks guys! With FC in the 30s/40s because of the ridiculous CYA, we haven't even been in the thing yet. I was the skim/brush poolboy for my parents when I was a teenager and didn't want another pool ever again, but we loved the house so took the plunge. Reading this site and forum has really...

Thanks Dirk! No autofill on this pool, which was a disappointment at first but now I've come to appreciate as I think it helps me understand more about what's going on. I've actually had a lot of meter-checking experience on this house trying to track down an irrigation issue and I've been...

And we are underway! Thanks for all the help y'all.

Indeed, that jives with my research as well. I have confirmed that they read our meter already this week for the February usage so we should be good to go. Thanks for the tip about the sprinkler, that's a great idea. I did plan to wet the plaster as much as we can.

Thanks for the advice, Dirk! We were planning on doing something like this, and seeing how the pool has reacted to chemicals since October has made me think the pool is much closer to 14k-15k gallons than the 17,770 quoted by the previous owner. Beginning to think he meant 14,770.