Recent content by tfrain

I was working on getting pool ready and could not for the life of me figure out why the light was showing good salt on the ic40 itself but zero on the easy touch. Finally figured out that I had set "enabled" to "no" at the end of the season and it therefore was not reading the salt level...

I have those same strips - the wait 15 second kind - I only use those for a quick "am I in range with most stuff" checks. In this case, I did the TF100 test with the dot test at waist level, and overflowed the tube and could still see the dot, which means 0 - correct? I did a strip test to...

That's weird. I already did update it. If you look up in the thread you will see it in a few posts there in the middle. - - - Updated - - - and there it is back again. I posted from my phone on the one with no signature. I guess I have to set it up there as well??

I drained and replaced. It is now at 50. Lesson learned.

Any guesses on how far down to drain to remove 30% of water? I've been looking at the intelliflo chart and arguably I'm either moving 36 or 50 GPM, depending on how I setup the estimate. I was going to shoot for right between that and run it for 3 hours on waste. But if you have experience...

Thanks gentlemen!

You may be right aboit gallons. I was just going off pool guy. I measured and it was 3 feet deep in shallow and 8 in deep end. According to poolcalc it would be 26700. I've been using 29k since last year. I guess I've just been getting lucky and shortchanging when adding chemicals. Even so, I...

There now.

Sorry Guys!! I got pulled away and forgot to type that in. I think I saved my signature correctly now. If not: 18 X 36 Vinyl Rectangular with Fiberglass End Steps and a Swimout ~29,000 Gallons 2 Skimmers/1 Drain Pentair Easytouch 4 w/IC40 SWG Pentair Intellflo VS Pentair Kreepy Krawly 820...

I drained my pool down to 6" above shallow end to try and dilute iron in my pool (didn't want to add sequestrant all summer). Replaced the water and turned it over 24 hours, pump on the whole time, pulling from skimmer and drain. Started to rebalance water to get ready for SWG that I just...

I'm draining pool now. Almost to bottom of steps. I figured I'd drain to that level, refill, turn pool over, then do it at least once more to try and dilute out the iron. Draining to this level will give me access to the bottom returns on the swimout and I could caulk them if that is the...

I bought the ameribrite color LED for my pool when I replaced the liner. It is pricey but works great. I also change the mode by flipping the switch on and off until correct sequence is obtained. I believe in order to be able to control that with a phone, you would have to buy pentair...

Bought house last year and pool was awful. Replaced liner, and even though pool guy pressure tested, ended up having a leak in the fiberglass swimout (Top Two returns). Because of the leak, these returns (and their gaskets) were likely out of the water for some time hence failure. Pool guy...