Recent content by TonyWI

Nope, no iron here. This is city water, from Lake Michigan. It wipes off easily, and does cloud up. I do have a Jack's Magic test kit I could use to confirm, or find some C.

Generally good, however this is the first return in the series so I'd say the water there is probably the "deadest" in the pool. Not often enough. :-) But Rosie (Dolphin M500) runs daily so that helps. The yellow/translucent would be the algae and the darker is the paint chipping away...

One follow-up question. Would you clean your filter before and after the mustard-level slam, or just after?

Backstory, had pool about five years. Water pretty much managed itself using the advice here and methods. Went a spell early this year without a SWG (replaced it) and went live with it in late spring. During that period we were on pucks and liquid chlorine. Water has been mostly clear this...

I did not! Is there a secret shortcut I should know about?

Funny - tried calling Pentair this morning... Their phone menu is broken. When you land on IntelliCenter, you get a voicemail that the extension is not taking calls, then it tells you to call the number you just did, and it hangs up on you. The path in the IVR is 1 1 1 1 1 3. Then I went in...

I have answers, or a plausible explanation. By way of a company that I do business with that has a connection with our local Pentair rep. Apparently this is a known issue with the original/early version of firmware on the IntelliFlo 2 VST combined with IntelliCenter firmware 23. "I spoke to...

45, and open. Brrrrr. ?

Interesting! I forget there is so much more you can do at the panel vs. the WebUI/App. I.e in the web, you can create a light group, but there are no options for color. So once you have your light groups - can you also put them in circuit groups, or are you just limited to schedules? (IMO...

I wonder... our heater is turned off now (but is configured) on the Intellicenter, because the water is still 45 degrees. Could it be that I'm not seeing the options for heat set points, due to that? That would be stupid. Edit - yep, that was it. How freaking annoying. LOL. Now I see all...

Opening just runs the pump 24x7 today. We start the pool up when it's still quite cold outside, so I like 24x7 for freeze protection, and to get the water nice and clear. Plus I'm usually rebalancing the water after having replaced (with rain/snow) 1/3 of the water. We ran in this mode for a...