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Yeah, I have a 2 stage drain on a DE filter, but essentially you vacuum while backwashing, so in essence vacuuming to waste. Thanks all, any more questions and I'll be back.

I believe I understand now how I got the excess calcium build up in the pool. Shortly after I opened the pool I had to travel out of town and my salt generator wasn't keeping up with the demands of a still somewhat dirty pool and I asked my daughter to add shock to the pool after testing each...

I have checked this morning, I pull a pile like that out everyday or so....there is still a lot of this at the bottom of the pool (brushed to the deep end), what would happen if I vacuum it? Would the filter catch it? Then backwash thoroughly and "maybe" the excess calcium will be removed...

Here you go...pics of the "calcium spots", these are all over and are raised, almost could peel them if you know what I mean. The second pic is of the substance which I believed is DE from the pool after it's been dried out, however it definitely fizzed like a soda with rock candy poured in...

Folks, actually have two questions tied to Calcium Hardness..... First, I have excess DE coming into the pool, replaced the grates in the filter figuring a tear, but there is still some in the pool although I've been getting it out through either the Polaris cleaner sucking it up, or vacuuming...

Thanks for the feed back, problem resolved. Turns out not only was the pressure side leaking out of the booster pump, but the suction side as well, and this is what was leading to air in the system. All is well now, and as always thanks for the support from the site.

Thanks for the feedback...and yes I meant union...essentially if it needed to be done again, I would have to keep cutting pieces and those pieces get smaller and smaller and eventually you run out of pieces to cut :) Now onto the suction side leak...hopefully someone can chime in there...going...

All, I've had issues all season, probably longer and never really paid attention to it prior because it just wasn't a big enough problem...well now it is. 2 issues, which may or may not be related - a) Booster pump leaking at the outlet end b) air leak somewhere I would assume suction side...

So as the title says, I opened the pool this year and noticed some of the finish (pebbles) on my feet as I walked in the ledge. As I started brushing the surface of the pool and got over to the ledge, large amounts of "finish" started coming up...so I then vacuumed it all up and now have quite a...

All, just to close out this thread in case someone else comes across it. I replaced the salt sensor with the new variation, set the correct firmware and away we went, everything working as advertised. Thanks again to everyone's assistance. JD

OK, so Salt content is where it was prior to the unit failing....3.3 which is the reading I get. So I guess this means the Salt Sensor is bad? As for which Cell I have: My sensor screws in the bottom so I'm guessing I can just replace that. To your point, I think what I'm understanding...