Recent content by shawnra

Hi Bad news for me as I opened my pool - appears water accumulated in the heat pump over the winter and the PVC outflow manifold cracked. Looks like it is just a bunch of standard 2" pvc parts, but it ties into the heat exchanger. anyone know where I can find a service manual for this? I...

It's about $175 jump in price so I'd almost have to get a season and a half more out of it to make it worth it. FWIW, I got over 8000 hours on the IC40. I hear what you are saying on the electronics. In the 5 years I have had the pool, I have replaced the easy touch board, the intelliflo...

Hi - I have a 30,000 gal pool and need to replace my pentair SWG. The pool was built in 2014, so I got about 5 years out of my IC40. As I think about replacement, any thoughts on sizing? Will i get better value by moving up to an IC60, or is it a waste of money? I didnt really have any...

Not sure what others have experienced with Pentair, but as a point of comparison... I had an entire pentair system installed 4 years ago. So far, under the 3 year "complete system" warranty, I have had easy touch mother board, one globrite, intelliflow controller and screenlogic protocol...

Hi I currently have an IC40 driven by an Easy Touch panel. I need to replace the SWG and was hoping someone here had found a good price on a replacement cell. Thoughts?

Yes - Yes - I get that but my point is that I have jumped through hoops and stood on my head and juggled live chickens and when I test with 7065 std, I always read 30. Is there a reason that I wouldn't recalibrate the tube to match my results?

you perhaps a strange question, but wanted to get input. Lots of talk here about adjusting the "tester" to get the right results. I too ordered 7065 and am getting consistent 30 results. Is it possible to relabel the tube to adjust the measurement equipment to match my notion of what test...

BTW - has anyone ever used taylor R-7065 standard as a means of verifying test result accuracy? Seems like a good idea but I cant see that you can buy it anywhere other than large quantities from Taylor.

So did the OCLT and have a couple of observations... First, at 8 pm FC was 8.5 and CC was 0. At 6 am FC was 7.5 and CC was <0.5 but not 0. So I guess this confirms it is algae and not pollen or something else settling on the bottom. The interesting thing was that I went to one part of the...

Great suggestions - let me try to answer the questions: Texas - I will do an OCLT tonight prior to SLAM. I think my FC is 9-10 since the weather has cooled and I havent adjusted my SWG cycle. I will report back results. Catanzaro - I have had no real bather load since labor day since it got...

I am going to wait a couple of days to start the next SLAM to take advantage of the free time on the weekend, and post some notes, but after going through it 3 times, I feel comfortable with the process and I have read through the procedures many times...i dont think I am missing anything. Each...

So this is my first year with a pool - we built it last summer and only had it open about 2 months last summer so this was my first full summer. I found TFP while we were building and I spent quite a bit of time reading up on chemistry management and thought I had a good handle on what to do...

I have been browsing posts here and I see many folks posting very low pump speeds with SWG systems. I have a pentair intelliflow and a pentair IC40 on a 31000 gal pool. When I drop pump speed lower than about 1700-1800 rpm, i get low flow errors from the SWG. Is that to be expected? I see...

Thanks for the responses. I do have the TF 100 kit and have been using pool math regularly. I didnt really think I had much of an algae problem as I only see a few small spots on the floor of the pool, but this morning I backwashed the pump and it was fairly green. I have never seen that...