Recent content by heckofagator

Did these recently jump in price? I am also shopping for an IC40 replacement and looked up the Apex p60 and its almost $1300.

IC40 is 1099 at Marina Pool and Spa and I believe you get 10% off for being a paid member here, which is a grand, but still...not cheap like they were. The knock offs seem to be $600-700, I guess for that difference, I'll just buy the real thing. If there were a good knock off for $500, I...

Ok, will probably add that new heater bypass valve automation to round 2. First round is getting the heater working again and a new SWG. The pump is much louder now after the flood but still seemed to be working fine, so going to leave that alone for the time being. thanks again.

yes, makes sense. I guess the heater is causing some drag/resistance that doesn't necessarily need to be there in POOL mode. Is there any limit to the number of intellivalves an Intellicenter can support? I want to almost say they said it was 2, which I already had, but again, maybe they just...

yes, 100%. Going to add a few concrete blocks underneath the new one. our area floods with heavy rain and high tide, so gotta be careful. We actually originally had 2 pumps when we bought the house, so that's why we have 2 steps for the pumps. Although the pool company figured out we only...

well, maybe I'm confused. I do have a pool mode which doesn't run the heater and runs at 1600rpm and then spa mode which turns on the heater, moves the in and return intellivalves to spa only and turns up the pump to 3000k rpm or whatever. But the spa bypass valve doesn't move. does it need...

When we re-did the equipment 3 years ago (minus the heater and air blower), the plumber did put in a heater bypass, although it is manual/handle. I remember not really understanding how it worked and asking why we didn't have an intellivalve on this bypass, thinking I'd have to come move this...

Thanks again. Although the Hayward seemed to integrate fine with the Intellicenter, I was thinking of just going with the Pentair. This seems to be the MasterTemp series for propane and they appear to have 250 and 300 BTU models. Since we are only heating the spa, I guess higher BTU will...

ok, noted, we'll leave well enough alone and just start shopping for a new heater. thanks all.

pretty sure the water level made it up to cover 75% of the AC, which mean the heater was likely totally submerged. Looking thru my pics from that night but I remember the water level relative to the AC for sure.

Gas shutoff is pretty close to it, so shouldn't be an issue. thank you! Will give it a try a little later today.

It's an older Hayward. I've been unable to ever find a model number but I think the gas guy told me it was 250BTU.

As previously mentioned, some of our pool equipment was under water for a period of time for Hurricane Helene. I have not tried to turn on the propane heater again since this happened as someone said it might be dangerous. I'm not exactly sure where I heard that but I think we're either...