Recent content by Mdh2861

Here is a picture of the valve with the hose hookup. The water goes into the filter and through pressure gets pressed through the filter fingers through the filter into the return. It would seem that water that empties through the pressure relief valve is not going through the filter. That's...

So just curious why everyone says cartridge filters can't vaccume to waste? My pentair free and clear 75 has a pressure relief valve with a spout on top that can connect to a hose. I use it to drain all the time. Sure some ends up going to the return but most goes out of the spout. I'm under...

Thank you, this is what I thought. Will copper stain a fiberglass pool?

So first off I have learned a lot through this site. It took me a while to believe the cya/chlorine chart and the slam method. With a cya lavel approaching 70 due to too many tablets, I wound up with an algae bloom due to keeping chlorine too low (pool math recommends 9ppm) had it about 3ppm...

Pool details in signature. I have an inline tablet feeder, which works awesome until my cya reaches 70 then I have to switch to liquid chlorine. I'm on a well and while I can top off, my safe limit is about 150 gallons per day so besides heavy rain (which we do get fairly frequently during...