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Almost finished the season and the ICRF60 has been flawless for me. Once I had the CYA dialed in, I may have adjusted the salt cell up or down a few times over 5 months, but it maintained the FC nicely. I did ask the manufacturer about buying the salt cell separately down the roa dwhen I need...

Taylor. Just bought fresh reagents last year. I replace every 2 years.

My CSI is slightly negative... so I would find it hard to believe this is scaling... is it possible that these small white spots are leaching? ie. calcium coming out of the plaster? If so, they were not there when the calcium was 180 when I opened the pool, but they are there now when the...

SGM = manufacturer of Diamond Brite... I always used their numbers as a guideline for warranty purposes. FC=5.5 CC=0 pH=7.4 TA=80 CH=260 CYA=70 Salt=3600 Water Temperature=80

It is early in the season right now, so I test frequently... every other day. FC has been at 5.5 +/- 0.5 for a couple weeks. Very steady. I have not had to add any chlorine to boost. I have turned the SWG from 60% to 100% to get the level up closer to 10 and see if that helps... but, I'd...

I have had the pool for 9 years. Never had any major issues... all little things that I have learned from. Salt water pool, Diamond Brite finish. I have always kept the CYA on the low side and just run the generator more than probably necessary. Also, the calcium has usually been on the very...

After a few days, even though my CYA is still about 15 below where I keep it, I am able to maintain 3-8 FC with the SWG at 50%, and pump running 15 hours a day at 30 gpm. Once CYA is up where I like it, I may even be able to reduce SWG to 40%. I will post back after a week or so, but so far...

So far so good. After running for 18 hours (I let it run from 2pm to 8am next day) at 100% (30 gpm) to see what it could produce on max, FC went from 3.5 to 8.5. I am still in the process of getting my CYA up to 60-90 range where I maintain it, but it is at 50 right now and it was full sun...

The ICRF60 arrived two days early. I installed it in under 5 minutes. Simply shut off pool relay, disconnected IC60 power from Intellicenter, removed IC60, installed IRCF60, plugged into Intellicenter, turned on pool relay. The unit took about a minute to cycle through start-up tests. I...

I will be the guinea pig... :) At $700 for an aftermarket IC60 with 1 year warranty and $1750 for a Pentair IC60 with 1-yr warranty I am going aftermarket. I can buy 2.5 of them for the price of a Pentair... actually, more than that, because the cell can be replaced without buying a whole new...

Thanks for the replies... I see that Pentair's definition of "EC" is "pay me $250 more and I'll give you a warranty for something I should be confident enough in to warranty from any place of purchase." :( I have been disappointed with almost every Pentair piece of equipment I have bought...

As I am researching, of course, Pentair makes things difficult... I see they now have Intellichlor and iChlor. No real details about whether iChlor is replacing Intellichlor, or different use. And, of course, I see that Pentair is only honoring 3 mo warranty if bought online... so if I want...

Hoping to hear people's experience with aftermarket IC60 replacements. If I can get 7-8 years out of aftermarket and it integrates fully with IntelliCenter, then spending $800 vs $1500 for Pentair IC60 is worth it. I could buy two aftermarkets for one Pentair. I am assuming my cell is bad...

I have Intellicenter with the built in swg transformer. I need to replace my IC60. I see a couple aftermarket cells that say they are a direct replacement. Does anyone have any experience with them? Do the use the same internal power supply and connector I already have on Intellicenter? Do...