Recent content by paulnx

Out curiousity I opened few other intermatic timer motors and they failed the same way with small gear worned out or crumbed due age/south florida heat. Planned obsolescence! My understanding is that at one time they use to make it out of metal gears. I have four of these intermatic timers in...

Got this information from this video below. Thought this might be useful. fixing $40 motor with $12 donor timer may not worth your time. Fixed My 240 volt intermatic timer motor in intermatic timer box T104 (bottom motor... zoom to see worn out gear in the red that I replaced) used donor...

Also found a "weak" electrical connection at the electrode below as you plug into the female end. It gets loose over time. You can create tighter fit by wrapping copper stranded wire (use old electical cord and strip the insulation off). This fixed my low salt warning. I had orginally given...

I have two of these units running. I found one unit was giving at 91 error low salt more often. No corrosion internally. I noticed this unit had slightly looser fit into the female plug. So I used shim (stranded copper wire) to make it tighter on insertion. One copper wire stranded one...

I took chance and I have this system on order... CMARSHA60-3Y guessing it is equivalent to CFLH60G from Ningbo CF for $680.00 Warranty is 2 year full then 3rd year 80% prorated if I read it correctly....so better than the pureline. Guessing if I get 3 years of life then I have broken...

Pureline Pool Salt System comes from Ningbo C.F. Elec. Tech Co. See below: https://www.inyopools.com/Products/44401374084372.htm#qa

I have been shopping for a generic saltwater system. The pure line, calimar and CircuPool Universal "seems" to come from the same mfg Ningbo C.f Electronic Tech Co., Ltd I posting this info for reference. https://www.techflife.com/pool-salt-chlorinator-cflh-product/...

Quick status update. Replaced the Titanium Electrode of the 2nd unit In June 2021 (wanted to boost chlorine for the summer... was getting weak). 2nd unit died in July (but found found out that it it was the GCFI plug... put regular plug from home depot since my outlet is already GCFI...