Recent content by fabsroman

Exactly what water parameters does the Guru measure? Is it just chlorine and PH, or does it test for more than just chlorine and ph? I am asking because I am thinking about getting it. Thanks

Looked at the label and the manufacture date is 5/31/2011. Guess I should be ecstatic that it actually made it through last season. How it only has 6,000 hours on it is beyond me. Time to buy a new chlorine generator and it looks like I am going with the IC60 since I cannot find the IC40...

I can get an IC60 for $959. Would this be a drop in replacement for the IC40, but with a longer useful life since I would need it to generate chlorine a lot less often than the IC40. The IC60 produces 2.0 pounds per day versus 1.4 pounds with the IC40? Since the useful life is supposed to be...

We have been in the house for 18 months now and this will be our second season with the pool. The IC40 was working just fine up until yesterday. Had 7.0 fc yesterday. Yesterday, the "Cell" light was flashing, which translates to "Inspect Cell". I found some debris on the cell fins on the inlet...

Yep, I had an ammonia issue when we opened up the pool. Poolgate helped me with opening the pool and figuring out my water parameters. Ammonia was above 8 ppm according to my aquarium test kit (highest it will measure since all the fish would be dead already) and dumping in 10 gallons of 10%...

Sorry for getting back to this so late. As Poolgate mentioned, this pool required 50 gallons of 10% pool chlorine to get rid of the ammonia issue. In the process, the ta and ph became what it is. I measured the ph with an aquarium test kit and that is how I was able to test down to 6.4. I added...

Got my SWG up and running yesterday. FC went from 3.0 yesterday morning to 7.0 today running the IC40 on high for 24 hours. CC went from 1.0 to 0.5 or less. Pool is around 37,000 gallons Today's tests resulted in: FC - 7.0 CC - 0.5 TA - 20 CYA - 20 but still have some in the skimmers and...

Thank you very much. Just bought 24 pounds of sodium bicarbonate yesterday. Thing is, I think I am going to end up using sodium carbonate (pot ash) right now because both my ph and alkalinity are low in the pool. Pretty sure I will have the "pleasure" of using the sodium bicarbonate at some...

I added 120 pounds of salt to my pool and raised the salt reading by 325ppm. I am trying to work backwards from this to get a better feeling for what my pool size is. The previous owner told me that it was 37,000 gallons and I am just trying to confirm this number. I have used the Pentair...

Breaker at the house for the subpanel is 50 amps and there are two 20 amp breakers in the subpanel (i.e., pool pump and booster pump) and two 10 amp breakers (i.e., lights and IC40). This does not shock me because no repairs done to this house were done well, much less to code. I have room in...

I have 50 amps running from the house to the Pentair Easy Touch panel by the pool. I am about to install an Intelliflo 3hp variable speed pump, which would most likely go on a 20 amp breaker at the pool panel. This is the same breaker powering the current 1.5hp single speed Pentair pump. Only...

Thanks for that link. I was going to put PVC unions right before and after the pump. Those pump unions are what is on the current pump, so I will just order them too and use them on the new pump. Of course, that reminds me that I need to deal with the unions for the Pentair CCP420. Whoever...