Recent content by Richard Pinder

My pool was acid washed about 2 months ago. Before acid wash SWG was at 35-40% with Cl 3-5. After acid wash, I noticed that I needed to increase SWG. Now I am at 80%. Pool conditions: FC 1.0-3.5, pH 7.6, TA 100, CH 305, CYA 100, Salt 3700, Phosphate 50. After dark, FC was 3.5 at end of 8 hour...

Hi. I want to thank everyone for there help. It turned out to be the suction side value as suggested by mknauss, but it required more than just replacement of the divert parts. We needed to replace the entire value. Everything is working fine now.

Hi, I want to thank mknauss, 1poolman1 and rahpool for their helpful comments. I have attached another view of the equipment in spa mode to show the valve positions. The one in the first post was in pool mode. I have another question. Is there any back flow regulation on the air blower...

Hi. To begin the story we don't use the spa that often. So about a month ago we used the spa, with the blower. Everything was fine, however, when we shut down the spa, the system would not return to pool mode. Turned out that the one of the actuators wasn't working (I'm not sure which one it...

Yes. Here are pictures of how the valves were set for the test.

Hi mknauss, thank you for your help. I shut off the spa return by using the return valve. Here is what the return valve looks like after the change, just to make sure I moved it into the correct position for the test. After about 3 hr, the level of the spa was down about 8", so the problem...

I'm pretty new to this. Is the value from talking about the one on the right that has the arrow pointing at it, just south of the cleaner value.

I have been trying to solve this problem for a month. I have an inground pool, with a spa that is 1ft higher than the pool. During operation water overflows from the spa into the main pool. There are also a set of three beach jets adjusted manual with a value, and three deck jets. Flow to...