Recent content by jallison86

Responding to some of the questions... The old pump is disconnected and the new one is not installed yet. No, apparently not. There was no bonding connection on the old pump, just the conduit connections. Nope. The feed is straight back to the panel. No pucks used for chlorination, just the...

I'm replacing my Pentair WhisperFlo pump with a new variable-speed pump. The reason for this replacement is that the old pump looks like this: That pump was here when we moved into the house in February, 2016, so it's at least 8+ years old. It's been rusty for a while, so I knew the replacement...

Thanks Matt, good info. "high pH water and an SWG" is my exact situation.

Hello, I'm looking for some input on adding borates to my pool. I've read the So You Want to Add Borates to your Pool - Why and How article (which is awesome, btw, very detailed). But I'm still a bit nervous about dumping a sh*load of borax and Muriatic acid into the pool. Who's done this? How'd...

Figured I'd post here to close this loop. I wound up purchasing a Dolphin Triton PS. Had it for about six weeks now and am very happy. Drop it in, press the button, and away it goes. We have a large-ish pool, so I'm finding it generally takes two cycles to hit all the areas, but that's fine. I...

Thanks for the info. I'll do some more checking around on robot types.

I've got a Hayward 2025ADC PoolVac XL purchased in 2016. It's worked reasonably well over the years, but we have a PebbleTec finish on our pool and it's pretty rough on the plastic parts. I replaced many of the moving parts a couple years ago with a tune up kit, but now it's effectively immobile...

I hadn't been tracking CSI in PoolMath. Turned it on and it looks like it's largely a matter of keeping the pH lower. Will keep after that. Thanks for the quick responses!

Hi all, We redid our pool in early 2018 and went with a SWG. For the most part it's been great, but I've had difficulty with the salt cell. I'm currently on my third cell, which seems like a far too frequent replacement rate. I think the first one, a Hayward that came with the system, I didn't...

Hi all. Pool owner for a little over five years now, but new to the site. We replastered our pool three years ago and converted to salt at the same time. Happy with that decision in that I don't miss constantly buying chlorine, but I do battle keeping the salt cell clean. We've got pretty hard...