Recent content by hightechburrito

The tubing between my Ozonator and the injector fitting sprung a bunch of leaks (hose was brittle and had a bunch of pinhole leaks). Attached picture shows my temporary fix (kinked the tube and zip-tied it). I'm sure the kink will eventually leak so I need to fix this long term. I'm debating...

I saw a puddle under my hot tub today and noticed that seal by the heater that was leaking. I had to partially drain it to undo the coupling to check out the seal and found the gasket underneath had a bit of a cut in it. Already ordered a replacement to fix it, but there was also a bunch of...

Ambient temps are just a little cooler today (just under 110F), and the inside of the subpanel was over 140F when I measured with a non-contact IR thermometer. Makes sense to me that the breaker might trip at a lower than expected current (on top of the issue brought up my wireform). Breaker...

Do I do anything about it if this is what happened? Or just accept that it may trip when it’s 115F outside?

Thanks. Reading online elsewhere I see a lot of people saying this has happened to them, so it kinda makes sense. I also see 140F tossed around as a minimum temperature where a breaker should trip. I can see the inside of the sub panel getting there in direct sun when it’s 115F outside...

The breaker is the same age as the tub (little over a year). How would I rule out over current issues? Run the tub and see if it happens again? Only the low speed pump would have run in the last day or so (high speed pump only runs manually, and it’s hot enough that the heater shouldn’t have...

I can’t comment on your question exactly, but I have a MasterSpa tub as well with the same filter insert (mine is a 500 gallon though). As a baseline, it will use up about 2ppm per day without any use. I assume this is due to the ozonator and the water being at 100F. It doesn’t seem to be an...

I went outside today to test my water and noticed the breaker had tripped at the sub panel. My last test was 2 days before and I haven’t used it since then so I don’t have any way to know when it tripped exactly. Flipped it back on and it’s working fine. The outside temperature has been...

Thanks. I'm assuming it's most likely just getting consumed. I did a test of my chlorine (10ml chlorine into 1L water, 10ml of that into 1L water) and got roughly 10ppm FC, so my raw chlorine is about 10% still. Checking back on my PoolMath logs I just got lazy, I added 200ml of 10% bleach...

Thanks. I found the ahhsome instructions that say to have a sanitizing level of chlorine during the purge. Should I shoot for SLAM level or just the standard level for my CYA? Another few questions I’m mainly just curious about: 1) I put what should have been enough chlorine to bring it to...

Just got back from a trip and I have some cloudy water (I thought o have it enough chlorine before leaving but it burned through more than I expected). I’m due for a refill so no big deal, I’ll be draining and refilling rather than adding a bunch of chemicals to recover. I have some Ahhsome...

Second test today and it’s behaving like 6% like the first bottle. I’m certain that my test yesterday was correct (tested with FAS-DPD, DPD drops and a strip and they all agreed). So my guesses are: 1) I just put more LC in that I thought. 2) The bottle had been sitting for a few weeks and I...

I bought a 2-pack of gallon containers of liquid chlorine from the HW store a few months ago. They're supposed to be 10% LC, but the first one acted more like 6% based on how much it raised my FC when adding to my hot tub. I started the second bottle today and added what should have raised...

What’s an appropriate cue for when it’s time to drain and refill my hot tub? I’m about 2 months into using dichlor/bleach (dichlor until about 50 CYA then bleach). Water is clear and never registered more than 0.5 CC, and even then it was the faintest pink so might be 0 CC. Does the CC start...