Recent content by thejeff

You could be right... With a cartridge filter, is there anywhere an o-ring could be causing air bubbles? Since it's on the return side of the pump and pressurized, I would imagine it would leak water and not suck in air but I could be wrong...

For the last few years I've noticed my pump surging from time to time (i.e. losing prime temporarily, but not to the pump where it starts a prime cycle) and I've always had small bubbles coming out of the return jets. To me, this indicated a suction side leak, based on what I've read. The...

When I run my variable speed pump at lower rpm’s, I sometimes run into a “no flow” error on my SWG, which in past years has led to FC dropping below minimums and pool clouding up if I don’t catch it in in time. My flow switch is plumbed immediately after my SWG with no pipe in between. I’ve...

Mine ended up going away on its on after being powered off for a bit. Never happened again that I noticed. Sorry can’t be any more help.

Just thought I would post my DIY repair to fix this issue in case something similar happens to someone else : https://www.troublefreepool.com/threads/successful-repair-of-frost-destroyed-led-pool-niches.230225/

Over the winter, the wet-niches in my fibeglass pool broke - the front part (The lip that extrudes into the pool) on both of my lights broke off due to what I suspect is vertical movement of ice during a freeze/thaw cycle. The lights are always left unscrewed and dangling into the pool for...