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It’s an Ultra Temo 120

It’s an Ultra Temo 120

Hello, I have an Ultra Temp heat pump. How warm does it have to be outside to get much out of it? Our water temp is 68 and the air temps are 55-60. It’s not moving up in temp and I’m wondering if I’m wasting electricity at this point. We’ve never had much issue getting the pool warmed up but...

I found where they go. :)

I’ve decided to open our pool myself this year. We usually have a company open and close. I’ve come across these parts that they had sitting with our pump plug and I’m not sure what they go to. Can anyone give me some ideas?

will do. do I need to get the chlorine to shock level before doing the oclt test?

I did a drain/fill of about 10 inches, or about 5000 gallons and the readings were CYA 80 (high but improved) Alk 130 PH - below 7.0, base demand at 11 drops to 7.4 FC 0.4 CC - 1 Cal 300 I just drained about 6000 more and am currently filling over night. I am out of CYA reagent and will get...

The pool water calcium is at 275 Our fill water readings are: Calcium 260 Ph 7.0 CYA 0 Alk - 200 The 1/3 with 2/3 CYA test came out to be about 130. This was using RO water for the 2/3.

Thank you, you are correct. When I did the pool math I was guestimating a PH of 6 because I knew it was lower than the 6.5 on my tester. I'm just learning how use the base demand procedure. I got my new testing kit today.

Thank you, I will get started on that tonight. Should I add any ash or borax or just wait until I have exchanged the water? Also, should I keep my slide on to aerate?

I just did the diluted CYA test and got a reading of 110.

Yes, and I did the CYA twice with my new tester because when I had been testing it with the strips it was showing 0.

Hello, I am new to TFP and have been reading and learning a lot this last could of weeks. Some background on the last few weeks. And I now know do not take the advice from the pool store who keep selling me chemicals that are not helping...Having said that, I went to the pool store to test my...