Recent content by J4CKBOLT

Hi all, I have had a Pentair Kreepy Krauly Prowler 820 that has worked well for 5 years. Last night we had a lightning storm that I think zapped the robot. It gets power but does nothing. I was looking at the Prowler 920 as a replacement. Recommendations? If

Happened to me recently also

Thanks we really enjoy it!

So CYA is at 70. Losing 3ppm FC due to Sun per day. Therefore I am looking at 1 gal of 10% per day. This is better than 2 gal per day for sure. Looks like I need to keep my CYA a little higher on the recommended end here in Houston (or go through tons of bleach).

And the answer is “yes” I am perfectly fine with dumping the ozone dilly bopper. Pretty sure it does nothing.

That’s going to be tricky. Not much room in the pvc spaghetti bowl.

This is all very encouraging. It will be pricey to convert but it sure does sound interesting. I may start asking around for local PBs to get a system design and pricing. My orig PB prices for materials such as led lights are higher than I can get on Amazon. Thinking about asking for quotes...

Not that great with electrical items, but looking at the panel I see the Intellichlor portion has a cap instead of a rocker switch. I am going to assume my panel does not have the SWG transformer. That’s fine, until today I just assumed there was no way I could consider switching to SWG. But...

Thanks for the detailed reply and pool compliment. We really like it. I have a variable speed pump that I run on a fairly high speed 24/7 so I am already accustomed to the electrical bill. I switched to chlorine primarily because the idea of using trichlor/shock/drain/repeat is just plain...

I like the alternative idea of SWG but I have a lot of natural stone around my pool. I have numerous water features including a grotto and waterfall all on soft moss rock. PB told me very early to stay away from SWG with the type of stone we chose. In addition our coping is very flaky as it...

My CYA is up to 70 and yesterday I lost 4ppm FC from the sun in my 26k gallon pool. My plan forward is to check CYA more often in the summer, stay around 60ppm+ and add bleach as needed. If that’s 2gal/day or 1gallon/day I will do it.

Ok I have some early results of my sleuthing... the liquid chlorine I had from Home Depot has degraded from 10% to 8%. Not surprising. I added the last two gallons checking FC before and after. I had a rise of 6.5ppm so my pool size is close to 26,000 gallons using Pool Math app. Then I...

I get these once in a while, just scoop them out with a dip net.

Probably backswimmers... photo from another website.

Do they fly, crawl or swim?