Recent content by thothtp

Well I got everything put back together, and the filter seems to be fine. I gave the filters a thorough dish soap soaking as well, and that brought the pressure down to 10. Not sure the previous owner ever did that. So with the filter set, the pump is now making me nervous. As I said...

Yeah, that is obviously the issue. When I bought the house it came with no manuals, and the previous owner told me to hand crank it till you can't anymore. I assumed he knew what he was talking about, as it worked all last summer, even with pressures hitting 25psi on a dirty filter. After all...

Yeah, lesson learned, don't listen to the guy selling you the house, he is probably doing everything wrong. But still, there must be air getting stuck in the system, and if the first failure is an indication it builds up slowly till it eventually overpowers the clamp and explodes. Tightening...

Thats the thing though, the clamp is completely intact. Nothing wrong with it. I found the manual for my filter here http://www.waterwarehouse.com/Pdfs/1876.pdf and it says repeatedly that air in the system can cause the top to blow off. I think that must be my issue, and the lid came off...

It slipped right out, which obviously took a tremendous amount of force considering the top probably would have gone up about 25 feet if not for the roof getting in the way.

Here is a puzzler for you guys. For reference I have this filter http://www.poolcenter.com/parts_filters ... arPLUS.htm Story starts a few weeks ago. It is still pretty cold up here in Rochester NY (but well above freezing) so we are still weeks away from opening the pool. However, I...

In case you haven't read my green pool thread, a little background info. I bought my first house in November of last year, and it came with an inground pool. I had not been looking for one, but I loved the house and thought it would be a nice little bonus. Fast forward to now, and I opened...

Ok, just got my TF-100 kit, what a great setup. Here are my numbers: FC: 3.0 CC: .5 TC: 3.5 PH: 7.2 Alk: 80 CH: 200 CYA: <20, with a completely full tube the dot is maybe obscured 30% I am still using the Tri-Chlor pucks for now, until my CYA gets higher. The chlorine feeder has about 3...

My apologies, I figured since this was no longer really an algae problem and more about chemistry I should move it here. I also just realized I misspoke about the CC, I meant to say TC. As far as my crappy test kit can tell my CC is 0. This is using the OTO test in the kit along with a test...

To catch up to my situation, I bought a house with an inground pool, having never owned one before. When this spring came around, I pulled off the cover to a nice green swamp. After shocking first with hypo-cal and then Bleach once I found this forum and learned the gospel, the algae seems to...

So live algae sucked through the filter will pass through and cloud the return jets? That could explain it. The algae is almost dead, as my chlorine levels are dropping quite slowly, but there are probably still a few stubborn ones. I will keep on hitting it. As far as how old the cartridges...

Yeah, I do not plan to use them indefinitely. I may eventually replace the in line puck feeder with a liquidator, but at the moment my CYA is so low that the pucks are helping me. I will stop using them as soon as the level is on the low side of good. I add the bleach in front of a return...

I am actually having this exact same problem, also with a Pentair clean and clear plus. Mine is quite a bit older, somewhere around 8 years (I just bought this house, so I am unsure and there is no documentation anywhere.) I had a large algae problem stemming from neglect by the previous...

Small pipe. Your right, its an air bleed thing, at least thats what the exploded view drawing of the filter says it is. I did notice some debris (little pieces of leaves and whatnot) stuck on the screen, which means water must be flowing through there? Is that normal? Found this image of my...

Is it possible that the filter has some sort of bypass when the pressure gets high? I know there is an emergency pressure release valve, I am not talking about that. I noticed however that there is a pipe coming up the middle of the filter in between the 4 cartridges that has a screen on the...