1st post. Great message board! I've tried to read up as a first time pool owner. Pool is 7yr old with full Jandy automation + Caretaker system. Salt is 3100 and water is balanced. I use the Taylor test kit hand have had to buffer up FC with 10% bleach. Service error codes alternate between 125+194 and 123. SWG otherwise has green lights for cell on, flow, cell reversing. Prior owner last had SWG acid cleaned in April. I just did it again myself. I've attached before-acid pictures. There was only some bubbling during acid treatment. Note the corrosion on the inside of the electrical post. Cell serial is "F12G_" so I take that as 2012 manufacture.
This SWG only has 2 electrical post connectors: middle and right, with left slot being empty. The right post had corrosion on the outside and inside of the cell, with much more on the inside. I did not unscrew the cap from the top of cell to examine further. The plates look clean and fine. I shut off the breakers and injected a baking powder solution into the cable-side female connector, and let it sit overnight. The outside of the right electrical post cleaned off easily. I sprayed the male and female with PBBlaster after rinsing out the baking powder, and used a q-tip to clean out the female. No improvement.
Questions:
1) Can I try to salvage the cell by working on the inner corroded contact? What is the best method?
2) Pool is ~12.5k gallon. Cell is rated for about that. Cell was running at 75% during home inspection in March. Now pinned to 100%. Should I stick with plc700 (vs 1400)?
3) Is there a trusted generic replacement for the plc700? Will the automation (Aqualink RS & PDA) lose function by not sticking with Jandy cell?
4) Is buying from an authorized dealer to get the 1yr warranty worth paying 2x the 3rd party website with the same plc700 part? Any particular 3rd party website you'd recommend for price or reliability?
Thanks for reading/replying and for any other tips I may have not considered.
This SWG only has 2 electrical post connectors: middle and right, with left slot being empty. The right post had corrosion on the outside and inside of the cell, with much more on the inside. I did not unscrew the cap from the top of cell to examine further. The plates look clean and fine. I shut off the breakers and injected a baking powder solution into the cable-side female connector, and let it sit overnight. The outside of the right electrical post cleaned off easily. I sprayed the male and female with PBBlaster after rinsing out the baking powder, and used a q-tip to clean out the female. No improvement.
Questions:
1) Can I try to salvage the cell by working on the inner corroded contact? What is the best method?
2) Pool is ~12.5k gallon. Cell is rated for about that. Cell was running at 75% during home inspection in March. Now pinned to 100%. Should I stick with plc700 (vs 1400)?
3) Is there a trusted generic replacement for the plc700? Will the automation (Aqualink RS & PDA) lose function by not sticking with Jandy cell?
4) Is buying from an authorized dealer to get the 1yr warranty worth paying 2x the 3rd party website with the same plc700 part? Any particular 3rd party website you'd recommend for price or reliability?
Thanks for reading/replying and for any other tips I may have not considered.
