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Yeah that why was my next step. I’m gonna play around the equipment, maybe there is 2 gfi breakers because I swear all the lights worked a week ago except for 1. Very strange to now have only one light work.

Sorry forgot to mention the same lights light up the attached hot tub. So I see a light in the hot tub does turn on, but the ones in the pool are all off. Looks like power from the transformer is good. Maybe in the transformer the connections came out?

I inherited this when I purchased the home. I’m in NY as well, Long Island here.

I just purchased a home with an IG pool. We got it open and I finally got the hang of testing and keeping it in balance. At opening I had flipped the breaker to turn on the pool lights, one was out. Today I flipped it to check it out today - seems all are out. Any clue why all pool lights...

Looks Beautiful! Also my first season as a pool owner! You must be so excited. Congrats! I finally got a handle on my pool, so clear I can see the robot vacuum and the betta skimmer in the same shot on my surveillance camera.

Tested FC today. It was 3 drops so 1.5 ppm for chlorine. I’m still unsure if my pool is bromine or chlorine at the moment. I kept the SWG at 50% and put in about 2/3 gallon of LC. I’ll test again later but I reckon if I try to keep it at 1.5-3 ppm as per my Taylor test kit I’ll be safe. Still...

This is great info. So I was thinking to just use LC and check levels every evening before and after the addition and try to keep them a bit elevated. Maybe 4-6 ppm. I figure the test is giving me value of FC and Bromine together (is this correct?) which is basically sanitizer. Once I see...

No, last week when I posted I had algea, the pool guy came and put 16 oz of sodium boride to fight it. I didn’t know anything then - it was at that time I decided to look into TFP and posted here. I know the only way to 100% out of bromine is drain the pool - but I can’t do that. I don’t think...

Alright. Unfortunately missed my alarm and woke up late. I ended up testing around 7:30. Approx 2 hours after sunrise. My FC levels are 13 now!!! This seemed very strange to me, I checked with my pool guy on what he did to remove the algae last week. He vacuumed to waste all the green but I...

Oh boy, definitely over shot it. I checked FC levels twice, both times I got FC of 12 😬 Turned off the SWG, removed the CYA and kept it in a bucket. Will check in the AM.

By the way the pool is super clean, I still have the pool guys come for a vacuum and scrubbing which they did. So hopefully no algae!!!

Alright got it. Will do! I’ll test FC after dinner and report back.

Alright. I didn’t squeeze those out. Should I remove the 4lb sitting in the skimmer. Or leave those be? I can throw them away. I still have 8 more lbs that I purchased.

Alright update for today. Came home from work, checked levels FC - 0.5 maybe even less. After two scoops of powder the 10 ML sample became slightly pink. After a drop of reagent was clear. CYA - I used the method where I fill then put it waste height and glance. Around 30 I couldn’t see the...