Recent content by snachs

I drop it to 7.5 often and get 3-4 days before it creeps closer to 8. No idea why it pushes Ph so much - gets a lot of use from kids and dogs but it’s really the geek in me plus a bad back that drives interest in this vs not knowing how to manage my pool. Skimming isn’t hard either but the...

TA is at 60 and kept it there most of last year. Added borates too last year. Overall, everything is good but I’m always optimizing. I would never leave it unattended but while it’s dispensing, I’d do my other pool chores and start brushing.

Been running my pool for 10 years off the advice of this forum and it's been great. My pool with nearly 30 year old plaster has always demanded heavy acid. I added an SWG last year and that only increased. Opening this year led me to 3 days of MA additions to finally bring the PH and TA in...

Here is a pic of the whole equipment pad. https://s3.amazonaws.com/uploads.hipchat.com/514/388047/edLPeQTfMb9VO3U/upload.jpg I just moved in 11 months ago so no history from me using it much. I am more of the fire it up for a few hours vs maintain heat type. Mostly because we fire up the hot...

Now the tough part - what do I go with? I have some reading to do. If anyone has great threads to point me to, that would be awesome.

Ugh. I only run it while I'm out there but I hear you. Repair or replace?

Update and follow-up questions. I cleaned up the rust. When I banged on the pilot area gently, tons of rust fell out. I put the system mode in service so I could turn it on outside and listen for clicking and indeed after a few attempts at cleaning - it fired up! Question - The arrows in...

Thanks for all the replies! It is indeed electronic from what I have read. I found the manual online from an older post here. I'll clean it all up this weekend and blow some air around the burner tubes to see if that does the trick. Beyond that, I think I'll just have to bite the bullet and...

First full year with pool. Learned so much here already I'm feeling very comfortable with the daily routine. Great weather here last week and we enjoyed the pool 5 days in a row. Used the heater to warm up the spa on 4 of those days and then on the 5th, fired it up and nothing. Went over to...