Recent content by johnsimion

I'd be glad to call you ... but how? What app is that? I read your bio. I am retired USAFR and also Army civilian, but that didn't teach me much about pools or electronics.

I think these are what you want to see. Only the Pool has anything set - all other circuits have nothing set for them after I took out the "Pool Sam" one. There are 8 pump settings but only the first four actually do anything. I did not set any of 6-8. I set #5 "Pool Sam" but thought that...

Here are two photos of my system and one showing the panel. There is no problem with the IC-40 SWG, I just have it covered with a cloth for sun protection. The pictures make it look like it's wet there, but it must be a shadow because I doublechecked and it is definitely dry as a bone. Also...

My pool is now 10 years old. It came with the EasyTouch system at the time (the remote is P4HEASYTOUCH2A and Model520546-520547). The pool came with a spa, Pentair pool lights and spa lights, an IC-40 SWG and solar heat. It also came with Blue Square popup cleaners (both pool and spa on same...

Egad! This is what I get when I write in a hurry while people are talking to me. "Chlorine Neutralizer." Sorry. No stabilizer was added. Three 3 lb. containers of chlorine NEUTRALIZER is what I added. And it worked, it just didn't work nearly as powerfully or as quickly as I expected.

I apologize for not responding sooner. Here are more results that seem more crazy than ever ... As of yesterday (8/9), chlorine was "down" to only 11.5. I then swam in it to see just how bad it was (not bad, it didn't hurt my eyes when swimming extensively underwater). I just measured it now...

"One gallon of MA for a PH of supposedly over 8.2 probably took you below 7 which is not good for the pool." Sorry, that may be true for most people but definitely is NOT true for me AND never has been in the last 9 years. I would add that I have never had a problem before this, either. I know...

"Believe your Taylor kit. If the reagents are much over a year old, maybe believe it less... But definitely believe it more then the Leslie's test in any case." All my reagents were new earlier this year (2024) except for the salt test. You may be right about Leslie's but they do have a really...

I live in Las Vegas. My 21K gallon pool has a SWG and the feed line is connected to my water softener to keep the calcium under control (it was partially drained and refilled in April using a mix of hard and soft water to get CH levels of 350-375). Unfortunately I got lax and I got a light...

Hello - For a while now I have had air in my pump and it comes out the floor (pop-up) cleaner jets regularly, every 2-3 minutes, sometimes big bubbles, sometimes just tiny bubbles. I can see air in both the pool pump and the leaf catcher, but not really that much, just some bubbles, but I can...

The pool is now nine years old. I drained the pool for another project and while I was at it, decided to replace a Pentair Intellibrite lamp that went bad. Once the pool was drained, I could see that the failed light was halfway full of water and the other two had condensation in them...

I don't think they caulked it to stop a leak because all three lights were caulked like that when the pool was built - we're the only owners of this property and we built the pool and we know that for certain. Thanks for your help and I'll keep it in mind in the future, but right now I'm just...

I had to (mostly) drain my pool to do some tile work. While I was at it, I decided to replace one of the three Intellibrite pool lights that wasn't working (the gasket had leaked, but that's another story). The pool has been empty below the lights now for three or four days but the wall...

We live in Las Vegas, where the water supply is both extremely hard and also alkaline. Calcium deposits are a constant problem here, which is why the automatic fill works off the dedicated water softener. In mid-March, I drained the pool and did some grout work on it, then refilled it --...