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    Hayward Colorlogic lights replacement.

    Color splash xg led lights and Jandy water colors led light fixtures will fit your nitch. You would have to pull the light fixture wires thru conduit to the power source to replace the light fixtures.
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    Pentair Mastertemp 400 Panel/buttons do not work

    Open your heater look at the ctrnl board located behind the key pad on the top. Can you visually see corrosion or water damage on the board. If you do your going to need a new control board and keypad membrane.
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    Pentair Quad DE Filter - Do I need a Backwash valve?

    That looks like they used sweeps instead of 90's. That is schedule 40.
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    3 positions for Compool CVA 24

    I would plumb the intake to tee off between both acuators so you can run both or 1 at a time.
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    Variable speed pump and TDH

    I wouldn't go above 1.5hp up rate with plumbing at 1 1/2" size. So I would suggest to not get the bigger pump. Especially with only having 1 skimmer and no main drain. It would end up sucking in air when ramped to high.
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    Main Drain vs Skimmers balancing

    Just get some skimmer equalizers to put in your skimmers. They will equalize the flow for you.
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    Dirty water in return jets

    Re: Dirty water in return jets Sounds like it might be a bad multiport. If the spider gasket or key top assembly is bad then it'll let dirty water go into your returns. Also another symptom of a bad multiport is losing water thu the backwash line while on filter.
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    Waterfall feature and WF-28/011774 pump/motor downsizing

    That Whisper flow pump will get loud if it doesn't have enough back pressure of 11 psi. So you might have to use the valves to restrict flow to quiet the pump down. That means a smaller motor will have the same issue. Try closing off the 2 valves to the right a bit and see if that quiets...
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    Pump Dead - Repair or Replace?

    Is the pump humming when you try to turn it on for a couple of seconds then the sound stops? If so it could be a very easy repair. Could possibly be a bad capacitor. Thunderstorms have a tendency for braking the capacior for your pump. Part number for the capacitor you would need if it is...
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    Pool heater woes

    Hey, sounds like a bad unitherm govenor and possible bad bypass. When the unitherm govenor goes bad it'll shut your heater down after a couple of min.
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    Pentair MasterTemp 200 Error code E05

    You have a bad stack flu sensor. That's what the E05 error code ussally means. The stack flu sensor is located on the side of the vent. The job of the stack flu sensor is to sense the temperature coming out of the vents. If you replace the stack flu sensor and you still have the error. Then...
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    Issues with Hayward SWG

    Sounds like you have a bad main pcb board. I know you said you replaced the board. There are 2 boards. The front is the display board. The back is the main board. Look at the back board in the upper right in the middle section. You'll see a black round looking disc, that is a resistor. If...
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    Water is not flowing properly

    If the flow light on your salt cell is still red with clean filters then call pentair so they can send someone out to warrenty your cell. Do not try to replace the flow sensor your self as that will void the warrenty. The flow sensor on your intellachlor verifies you have flow and also detects...
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    Hayward Super Pump spitting on shutdown.

    Sounds like you lid gasket for your pump may start to be failing. Make sure there is no debree on the gasket and use Teflon based lube on you gasket. As long as you don't see air in your pump you are good to go. If you do see air then I would replace the lid gasket.
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    VSP Pump run times in Texas

    Hey, Pool tech here from Houston Texas. Hopefully I can help you with your speeds. So with you 25k pool with your 520 cart filter I suggest running the pool between 12 hrs to 16 hrs. You can run it less in the winter and run it more in the summer. So I prefer to set 1750rpm from 7am to 9pm and...
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    Air bubble when main drain valve closed

    Hey, sometimes when a valve isn't moved frequently that shafts orings on the diverted will dry up on one side causING an air leak when you turn the valve. Best way to diagnose this is to turn the pump off while it was running and immediately water will spit out on the suction side showing where...
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    Aqua Plus Vs Pro Logic Automation conttroler

    If you have a vsp then the pump will communicate with your automation. So only 1 relay and make sure it is wired on the line side of the electric.
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    Replacing Pump - Do i have enough room or replace check valve?

    ^^^^ Yup use that fitting it goes over the 2" coupling. If your system is 2 to 3 feet higher then your pool then that check valve is there to help your pump prime by being able to hold water and not letting the suction side depressurize and drop the water down 3 feet when you open up the...
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    Recirculation is OK but water cannot pump into filter

    Your Filter is clogged with algae preventing your pump to push water thru your filter grids and it needs to cleaned as he suggest^^^^ Just make sure you always add DE after backwashing. But for now your best off running it on recirculate so you atleast have your water moving with chemicals...
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    Buying a new pump - what to get?

    HI Pool tech here. I do install VS pumps and to qualify for the rebate from the electric company is you would have to buy it from my store and have me install it with the speeds i put on it. Not all electric companies offer the rebate. As for that pump i've never saw it before and it looks...
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    Been dealing with this for over a year. Any thoughts?

    Just to throw this out there about DE filters. To do a proper back wash on a de filter you should backwash 30 seconds then rinse 10 seconds then repeat this process 2 more times then go into filter. Once running in Filter for your Filter you should add 6lbs of de. Do not do quick backwashes...
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    My project pool in FL that needs a lot of work.

    Hey, use to do liners all the time in NJ. Best thing at this point if ya sub pump isn't doing the job is getting a shop vac. (make sure you take out the filter in the vac) Vacuuming it all up and hauling the crud out of the pool. It can be back breaking but that's what I did at this point...
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    Aqua Plus Vs Pro Logic Automation conttroler

    Aqua Plus will control your VSP and seems to be perfect for ya set up if ya going with hayward.
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    What's this called

    Hi, don't mean to step on anyone's toes but a hayward valve won't work. Your going to need a 2" pentair slide valve. Pentair Valve, 2 Push-pull Kit Eqfv Wg (261165) - 263064 - INYOPools.com
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    Does Sand Wear Down??

    Re: Is this 40 yr old sand filter working? Yes sand is millions of years old. The beaches actully used to be filled with quartz rocks and during the ice age storms, winds and earthquakes from volcanoes casted much of the rocks into the ocean. Then Glaciers would actully travel and move. Even...
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    Wahoo - bottom drain

    Hey i see your filter will only allow 63 gpm of water thru it so i wouldn't put your pump past 3000 rpms or you'll damage your pump and filter. I would 7am to 9pm 1750 rpm set it at schedule on speed 5, Then 7am - 11am 2400 rpms on schedule on speed 6. So that way you have a high speed in...
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    What, me worry? (aka Spider Gasket insurance)

    And that's why i have a cartridge filter. Easy to clean very efficient, lets more water to squeeze thru so your pump can pump as much gpm as it can. My filter doesn't have a multiport and it is rated to let 150gpm of water thru.
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    Wahoo - bottom drain

    85015200 is the part number for your skimmer equalizer. You have an american products skimmer. Now to answer your main drain question. Main drains are very important at it allows your to take water from the bottom off the pool and return it to the top allowing you to turn your water over more...
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    Help! Hayward SP3400VSP controller wet

    Hi, sorry but that pump won't work without the controller or the drive. Sp3400lcd is for the controller for the ecostar. Water shouldn't have gotten into the lcd of the controller. It's waterproof which means if water did you need to replace it. Now the drive is the lcd controller and big...
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    Bubbles in pool

    If you have a 3 way valve in front of your pump you could have bad orings in the valve causeing an air leak. Move the handle does it get worse or better, if so then the shafts orings need to be replaced. But always make sure your lid orings is alright without any leaves or grass or anything...