Recent content by Jeff McGuire

Your valves are Jandy. The actuator on the valve is Hayward. If your return is straight to the pool then you can get away with only 1 valve. If you don't have a dedicated return to your pool like myself you must have one on the return side also. My cooler returns right in front of the pump...

As i concluded before, there is no provision to seal that completely. Any type of seal you tried to rig in there would impede the wands ability to spin freely. Its just a cheap design. Previously I made a upside down funnel that i placed on there to push the water out into the cooling pleats...

The thing that got me investigating this is that when i was checking temps of the water in the wands then in the basin i had my hand next to the center pipe and could feel it was noticeably warmer water running down it. A quick check with my thermometer confirmed this. The majority of this...

Right here.

So after reading your reply I got a wrench and went out and took mine apart. Mine must be different than yours. Mine has no sort of seal in there to deter water from coming out the bottom of the wand hub. There is no prevision to add a seal either. Just a cheap design.

Do all your wands have a lot of water that comes out from under the wand where it rotates on the shaft? I assume there is no sort of o-ring there as it would cause a friction point but i seem to loose a good bit of water from under the wand that just runs down that pipe and down into the bottom...

I'm in City of Katy. The physical install is quite simple if your already plumbed for it. Getting the ball valves set is the mystery that we all play with in order to achieve the optimal cooling from it. I have a omni logic controller so there was a bit of work to get it all working properly...

I agree. Give it a try and see if you see any difference. Any bit of help is appreciated when its as hot as its been here lately. We have friends down the road that have a pool built within a few months of ours by the same builder and we are in a new neighborhood with 0 tree shade. I...

Haha, I sure wish I knew!! I'm still trying to figure the optimal setting for mine myself. :D

So by doing that you are letting both skimmer function fully and just cutting down flow from the floor drain. If you adjusted only the valve on the west skimmer line it would cut flow from east skimmer and floor drain.

I can't see in the picture but I assume the line coming from the right side, into the west skimmer at that valve is your east skimmer? If you restrict that other skimmer to the right a bit it should pull more from the cooler and west skimmer. Mine works for this situation because my cooler...

Let me see if I can offer some help. (I'm in Houston area- Katy) Went through this 2 years ago and installed and programmed my own cooler. There was some trial and error involved and I will tell you its not like a night and day difference but we are still happy with the overall outcome. I...

That is amazing that you were down to 84° yesterday. It was a hot one and i believe I was at 86-87° by late afternoon.

Benkg43 - I'm late to the party here, but sorry to hear about your poor experience and frustration. I'm by no means a pool expert. I just had mine installed last year but hope i can offer more advise. (Mine is 17k gallons/ 6ft. deep end and in full sun all day like yours) Within a month of...