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Flow reading okay for a while then going to zero makes me suspect an air bubble accumulating over the sensor. Is your installation cell position one of those shown in the manual? If horizontal, the sensor plug must be down. nb: I'm just a fellow Aquapure owner. If one of the experts chimes in...

Fwiw, I have a CCP 320 cartridge filter, 320 square feet, which is 30 square meters for 20,000 gallons, 76,000 liters. There are 40 foot, 13 meter, evergreen and other trees and shrubs within a few feet of the pool and 80 foot, 25 meter, pines next door. They rain down pollen, needles, leaves...

Here is the chart @HermanTX is talking about. It's kind of obvious, but another loss for the generic system is ability to monitor or control it with the rest of the Pentair system, i.e. the app. It's not clear why, but afaik, there is zero cross-brand compatibility of controls for SWGs.

Hi. Lots of threads here on this topic. I think I've read them all. The consensus goes like this: Experiment to find the minimum RPM that meets the flow requirements of your SWG and other devices that have one (like heater, though you can configure that to bump up rpm just when it's on). Add a...

It's been both. The heater was reportedly 2 years old when we bought the house in summer 2020, I'm pretty sure using liquid chlorine because the salt system was broken. Fixed that and have been using the salt system for 5 years now April to November. The rest of the year it's pucks in a floater...

A fellow Mastertemp owner here. A practice that can cause early failure is running the heater with the water consistently cold. (The manual says 68F, which is 20C.) This causes combustion gasses to condense in the heater, and they're quite acidic.

My take is that if the 280 does a good job, and you can keep it going without pain, do so.... Why I make that recommendation: My pool had a 380 when we moved in. It was 14 years old and in bad shape. I changed many parts, and it worked well for another two years. But then more parts needed...

With good water chemistry, acid cleaning the cell just isn't a thing. I'm going on 5 years with TFP methods. Never had to clean the cell except to poke out some seeds when my filter's vent screen failed. Of course if you have very high CH fill water, that's not possible. Mine's 300-400.

A detail... If you find that the really fine stuff goes through the bag, some of the 3rd party bags are somewhat finer than the OEM Polaris jobs. They really help me in the spring when pollen is a problem. Here's an example.

I'm just an owner, so trust the experts over me. The sensor works by heating a little metal button exposed inside the cell. The more water flow, the more heat is drawn away from the button, and the more current to the heater. The electronics in the box sense this current. So what can cause a no...

I disagree with the "turnover doesn't mean anything" concept in some cases. If you have a lot of neutral buoyancy particles falling into your pool (as I do) due to surrounding trees, heavy pollen, very dusty environment, etc. then turnover rate gives a clue of how quickly stuff will be removed...

I'm sure the experts will have advice, but one thing to note is that bubbles result from air being sucked into plumbing on the pump inlet side rather than the return side. That air gets pumped through the system and shows up at the returns. The same flaws that let air in can leak water out...

Just a note. The common wisdom around here is that cell reports of salt level should not be trusted. The gold standard is the Taylor salt test. If the cell is tracking the Taylor test, that's great, but don't assume it will be so forever. A little crust on the sensor can change things.

Shop vac sounds great. Another idea: I use my "Spa Wand" hand pump, originally meant to get junk off the bottom of the spill-over spa where the robot can't reach. The plug on my filter is fine, but dancing the limbo is necessary to get hands on it. :)

Yeah the housing looks like a perfect clone of the Pentair I have now, so should fit. It's not UL listed, so not within code. The CE listing is only good for the European Union. My concern is that it also looks 100% like the Pooltone products, which are often reported to have seals that don't...