I've scoured the web for this problem but no luck so I'm hoping to get some experts here.
I'm in Arizona and I have an inground 35,000 gallon pool and an in ground water level valve. When I bought house this was the type of valve:
That started to misbehave, and I mentioned it to my pool guy and he replaced it (without asking me, but I know he was simply trying to help) with one of these:
Now the problem is consistency. It seems to work, the pool fills to around the expected level then over the next day or two the level drops like 1/4 or even 1/2 inch before it triggers and starts to fill again. Then it fills OK but to a slightly different level to before and I just can't get consistency or precision.
I'm on a shared well and its important that the pool fill up small amounts, incrementally, during the day rather than 100 200 or 300 gallons ever few days. So I just want the Dang thing to maintain a steady level day after day - it used to behave fine with the original filler valve by the way, I seem to recall it always was at the same level, visually it never seemed to vary at all.
Look:
See the water level? that's approx 1/2 beneath the white lime scale line, you can see that dark 1/2 thick stripe. But yesterday morning it was exactly level with the base of that white strip and that's historically where the level has always been. It won't drop much lower, it will top up eventually, just not consistently, so I know its coming on infrequently and likely pulling several days worth of water on one hit every few days.
Is this normal? should a pool need to drop 1/2 and inch in water before the valve kicks in?? is this a known behavior perhaps with the updated filler valve type?
Thanks
I'm in Arizona and I have an inground 35,000 gallon pool and an in ground water level valve. When I bought house this was the type of valve:
That started to misbehave, and I mentioned it to my pool guy and he replaced it (without asking me, but I know he was simply trying to help) with one of these:
Now the problem is consistency. It seems to work, the pool fills to around the expected level then over the next day or two the level drops like 1/4 or even 1/2 inch before it triggers and starts to fill again. Then it fills OK but to a slightly different level to before and I just can't get consistency or precision.
I'm on a shared well and its important that the pool fill up small amounts, incrementally, during the day rather than 100 200 or 300 gallons ever few days. So I just want the Dang thing to maintain a steady level day after day - it used to behave fine with the original filler valve by the way, I seem to recall it always was at the same level, visually it never seemed to vary at all.
Look:
See the water level? that's approx 1/2 beneath the white lime scale line, you can see that dark 1/2 thick stripe. But yesterday morning it was exactly level with the base of that white strip and that's historically where the level has always been. It won't drop much lower, it will top up eventually, just not consistently, so I know its coming on infrequently and likely pulling several days worth of water on one hit every few days.
Is this normal? should a pool need to drop 1/2 and inch in water before the valve kicks in?? is this a known behavior perhaps with the updated filler valve type?
Thanks
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