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I think I'll be doing the same with my control box. Very impressed with this little robot. I received mine on Saturday and let it run 3-4 full cycles over the last two days. The first two cycles pulled out a half a basket of fine sand and sediment. The fine mesh basket was a good suggestion...

I see some folks are mounting the control box/power supply in an enclosure on a wall. I’d like to do something similar. I assume the power supply is not weather resistant and needs to be moved out of the elements when not in use unless protected by a box or the caddy cover they sell.

Awesome glad to hear it.

Based partially on this post I decided to give the EVO 614iQ a try. Should have it in a few days. I had the choice of replacing both the dead booster pump and ancient, worn-out Polaris cleaner in my new-to-me pool or to try out an alternative cleaner system. This one stood out as one of the more...

And that's why I'm just simple dirt engineer and not a chemical engineer. Thank you for pointing that out. I'll just set up a softener for the makeup water.

I've been contemplating something like this as well. We have very hard water in my area and am considering adding a softener dedicated to my pool in the pump room. In my case, the pump room is detached from the house so trenching & running a pipe from the residential softener would cost more...

Oh yeah I figured that might get some laughs. I'm under no delusion that it will be cheap to maintain and operate. Although we weren't specifically shopping for a house with a pool, I'm always up for a challenge and we're really looking forward to using it this summer. Opinons certainly seem to...

We purchased a new (to us, 1984 build) home this month in Central Texas (just south of Austin). I wasn't looking for a pool but the right home came along and it happened to include a pool so now we are first-time pool owners. I'm what I would consider a fairly well capable DIYer so I certainly...