Recent content by houstonguy

I have a ~15,000 gallon pool (pebbletec) that I began maintaining myself last fall. We recently had a pretty heavy calcium scale line (12-year old pool) blasted off and I was hoping the draining required to do the work would help with CYA, but it wasn't really enough to make a dent. Chlorine...

Yes. My initial thought was to schedule spa mode (sans) heater to run for a short time at the end of each day, and also set the blower to run for a shorter time in the middle of that window. Just to get some additional filtration for the spa and churn things up bit. I think that, plus running...

Yes, ajw22, the spa and pool share a pump so the spillover runs whenever the pool pump is running and the equipment is set in pool mode. I agree, circulation & water chemistry should be fine under these circumstance. My concern is mainly that without using the spa drain regularly, any...

The pool at the home we bought less than a year ago has an attached spa with spillover design. We don’t use spa mode regularly. It recently hit me that relying on just pool mode/the spillover might not provide enough filtration for the water in the spa. Am I overthinking this, or is there a...

I have a Mastertemp 400 at a home we purchased a couple of months ago. It's about 10 years old. A nearby lightning strike damaged some of the pool equipment recently. The circuit boards in the EasyTouch and wireless link both had to be replaced and the surge bricked the heater. I replaced the...

While I did replace the COM cable running from the outdoor antenna to the EasyTouch, I was using the same four-pin connector at the EasyTouch motherboard that had been there when storm happened. Apparently, it was also damaged by the surge. The wiring was correct and tight, but as soon as I...

A lightning strike fried my EasyTouch Board and the Outdoor Transceiver a couple weeks ago. I replaced the board right away and it works as before. I just got the High Power Wireless kit I ordered and swapped out the indoor and outdoor transceivers (the protocol adapter seemed to be fine)...

Found the problem with the Intellibrites. I had not assigned the relays and synced them in the Configure menu in the EasyTouch. If the new fuse fixes the heater, everything will up and running except the screenlogic, which will likely require replacement of the antenna/transmitter. Thanks all!

New board is in and panel is working properly now. All the pumps and valve actuators now work as expected, but still a couple of things to sort out. I'm not sure the heater survived. It doesn't seem to be getting any power. Not responding from the EasyTouch or the main panel on the unit. It's a...

Yeah, that's what I was just starting to wonder about. The board that blew out has two stickers on it. One says Pentair Inc. EZTCH 8P Replacement 520711. The other smaller sticker has a barcode that lists P/N 520657. It looks like the former might be for a pool or spa configuration and the...

Motherboard showed up faster than I expected. Got it swapped out and the load wires moved back where they belong, but still have some problems and trying to figure out what's damaged and what's a programming issue since the new board means I lost all the previous setup. It seems like nothing...

That did the trick. Main filter pump appears to have survived unscathed so I will run it manually until the new board arrives. Hopefully everything else is still working after that, too. Thanks all!

Thanks, ajw22. Seems simple enough. I'll take a look at it in the morning and see if I can manage that.