Recent content by gkw4815

Same thing happened with one of our original PacFab Hatteras pool lights...the potting compound on the back of the light melted and ran into the fixture and against the lens. The light still worked and did not leak, but the missing potting compound affected the heat transfer out of the fixture...

My 280 is 21 years old according to the serial #. I got the $100 rebuild kit off Amazon this year and used roughly half of the included parts to fix up mine - it's back to running like new. Hoping to get another 5-10 years out of it. I also have a robot, which cleans better than the 280, but...

5 and 50, although I admit I haven't been testing and adjusting as often as I should (before the SLAM - 1-2x weekly, but currently 2-3x a day).

Thank you ajw22, that's what I'd figured. The right fix is probably to rebuild the waterfall and/or "shallow" the basins so they can't hold water, but that sounds pretty involved. Maybe will do so when we replaster the whole pool in ~5 years or so. In the meantime, I'll thoroughly clean the...

Am entering my fourth season with our pool (third season during which I've maintained the pool myself). Despite (mostly) following TFP practices and testing my water several times a week, I tend to struggle with algae growth whenever my water temps are in the upper 70s or higher. Last season, I...

Thanks to this community, I've sorted out the "important stuff" with my own pool (installing VS pump and SWG, properly maintaining and using pool cleaner, etc). Now that my pool mostly takes care of itself I can start to think about "nice to haves"... Our kitchen has a warming drawer, which was...

I have that same Dolphin cleaner. I think it's about 7 years old, got it used last year. Mine will climb all the way to the waterline in our pool. If yours doesn't, may want to check if treads or the foam grips on the rollers need replacing. I can't really fault how it cleans. Leaves my pool...

Your pool must be particularly shady...I'm also in the Houston area and we started swimming a couple of weeks ago. Pool is currently at 79 with no heater use. When we covered the pool at the start of November last year (just ahead of leafpocolypse) the water was in the low 80s and swimming was...

Oops, sorry, I missed that part. I'd think you'd be okay as long as you keep proper chlorine levels maintained in the pool, but will defer to the experts.

Thank you both. I agree that faulty / cheap LED bulbs are the likely culprit. I installed the light fixture fairly recently (last two years) and it's pretty well protected from the weather, so I don't think water intrusion or corrosion is the issue. I'm more baffled by the fact that the...

I fill my pool with one zone of my sprinkler system. No water quality issues observed (at least none that can be attributed to fill water quality) over the couple of years that this setup has been in place.

Noticed a minor but strange issue today - one pair of LED flood light bulbs on the exterior of our house flicker slightly but noticeably, only while our pool lights are on. No other incandescent or LED lights inside or outside of our house are affected - only two bulbs in one floodlight...

After the 2021 TX winter storm experience, I leave a "power off alarm" plugged in during the winter months. Pool runs as needed on freeze protection. If power goes out, the alarm sounds a shrill siren that is loud enough to wake me up (and everyone else in the house, unfortunately). I can then...