Recent content by KOBrien12

Hello, This is our first time having our pool closed after converting to a SWG. We live in Connecticut and I've read mixed things about leaving the salt cell in place for the winter, vs. removing it and replacing it with a dummy cell. Our pool guy says to leave it because if you take it on and...

Thank you for confirming what I suspected....’pool guy’ is right, it’s frustrating when I feel I know and understand more about pools than the person who should be teaching me - much gratitude to you and TFP for the knowledge I’ve built this summer! What would you do? Keep SWG at 100% and...

This summer we added a VSF pump, SWG, and Intelli pH. Another member was helpful with advice on getting everything up and running and suggested I run the VSF pump at the slowest possible speed (RPM) that the Salt Cell (ic40) requires to turn on (I'm at 1765 RPMs, 20 GPM) for 15 hours @ 100% to...

Ah okay thanks so much for your help!!! That's where I was stuck, so many websites say you should turn your water once in a day had be confused on how to do that while running low GPM....so what I need to focus on instead is just generating enough Chlorine...Pentair told me not to get the IC60...

Thanks! I might post this as a separate question but I'm able to set my VSF pump to the 20 GPM that are required and then the RPM vary some days they're higher than others but by setting the Flow rather than the RPMS, the pump is doing what it has to do to meet the minimum flow rate required...

Felipe - thanks so much for your reply it was definitely helpful. I fought the fight and with backwashing frequently, and going through a ton of DE because of it, I finally have my pool crystal clear! Now I just have to figure out the proper schedule for running the VSF Pump in order to make...

Hi Everyone, After a month of work I finally have my pool clean and I just ordered the water test kit recommended from TFP. Now I'm on the boards seeking support for maintaining the pool and have some specific questions. This year we bought all new equipment and had the following installed...

As an update, during the night the error changed from Max Pressure to low flow on the chlorinator. I turned it off for a few hours, backwashed in the morning, added some DE, started it up again around 8:45am, it's just 11am now and the flow is already reporting "low" already after going through...

Hi Everyone, I'm new to TFP and to pool ownership. We purchased a home with an 30k gallon IG gunite pool 2 years ago (this is our third summer). Here is a quick run down of the first issue I want to tackle with this pool: Year 1 We swapped out the old pump for a VS-SVRS pump and had no issues...