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I would ignore all product names, and just look at the ingredients. “Shock” usually means it has chlorine as one of the ingredients in it, but not always. If it doesn’t list the ingredients, run away.

SLAM is an acronym..should really be S.L.A.M. It stands for Shock Level And Maintain. If you need to SLAM, you bring your water up to Shock Level (40% of your CYA as shown on that chart). And then Maintain that level until you meet all of the requirements to end it. And yes, as Marty says...

It worked like a charm! 30 secs worth of work (not including driving to Home Depot). No stains Thanks again!!

Ha ha. All good. Enjoy!

Sorry, re-read your post. Yes, you’re right, it’s either filtering/chlorinating the pool or spa. My spa is 5% the volume of my pool. I don’t need to run my IC60 very long to produce enough ppm for the spa. I’m just suggesting the OP run in SPA mode long enough to produce enough chlorine...

Yes I am. I’m filtering and chlorinating. IntelliCenter even allows me to enter different a SWG % for spa and pool modes.

Can’t he have his SWG chlorinate while in spa mode (at a lower %). The water will get filtered and chlorinated. I do have a spillover run for 30 mins a day, but I can also chlorinate while in spa-only mode.

Ha! I just texted that same thing to my wife. I spent $3.50 on the hook, and it costs me $1.75/hr to run my heater. I just re-cooped my TFP donation. BOOM!!

Just bought a magnet hook. I’ll try it when I get back in a few hours. thanks all!!

No magnet. I tried the bush/net combo trick for about 20 mins, no luck.

I’m having some siding work done on the house and there are 2 nails in my pool I can get out. My robot can’t either. So...my plan is to run the heater all night (current water temp is 56) and go in tomorrow and get them out of the shallow end. They fell in today...is waiting until tomorrow...

Looks good to me!

Looks like all manual valves. Are you going to replace any with Intellivalves so you can control them with your IntelliCenter?

Here’s some reading for you: https://www.troublefreepool.com/blog/category/pool-school/algae/ 7.5 is likely too low, but you’ll need to know your CYA level. https://www.troublefreepool.com/blog/2019/01/18/chlorine-cya-chart/ How are you testing your water?

If it’s not too late, consider IntelliCenter instead of Intellitouch. Intellicenter is Pentair’s latest automation product, and should be about the same price. You wouldn’t buy a 10-year old iPhone, no reason to buy the old automation product.