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Hey Newdude! thanks for the reply, appreciate it! I'll admit, i didn't make testing a priority until I had an issue :( so will definitely add this as an improvement area for next year to stay on top of testing :) I thought maybe when i did a SLAM with the first round of cloudiness i may not...

hey all! well with school starting up and the wife and kids starting back our pool usage will be limited to mostly weekends for the rest of the season :( I wanted to thank everyone here for the help i received with some issues that came up during our first season with our pool!!!! I do have...

Hey all, I'm having issues with my auto cover stopping before it gets closed all the way. I read online that it's probably a dirty track and so I sprayed that out tonight and while it was better it still stopped like 8 inches short of closed. I also noticed the cable in the picture attached is...

Yep, SWG must be working. We had a storm roll through here today and had some hail damage and so we've been cleaning up from that. Just now got around to uncovering the pool a bit and testing it. FC went up to 13 from 12 earlier this morning. Afaik the only way that would happen is if my SWG was...

Had my wife send me a pic of the IC60. So basically I just miss-calculated on my prior settings so my chlorine generation was too low which allowed some algae to sneak in. So once I get it cleared up again and get my settings adjusted to generate the correct amount of chlorine I should be good...

All lights appear normal, all the ones that should be on are and are green (sorry I'd grab a pic but at work now). I do have automation and prior to this round of cloudiness I had the pump set to run for 14 hours per day and had the IC60 set to 60% output. It's showing my salt levels at around...

Morning! So I tested last night before bed and had 15 FC. This morning woke up and got my sample and tested and FC was 12. So definitely failed the OCLT. I assume next steps for clearing it up is to do another SLAM, so I'll get started on that this weekend, back to the office now so can't do...

Thanks!!!!! I only had 1 gallon of 10% on hand that I dumped in, will need to go to the store to get some more. I'll go grab some more and get at least 2 more gallons in. That should take me up to 13 FC and then I'll check before bed and again in the morning and report back.

Help!!!! My cloudy water is back and I don't know why and/or what I'm doing wrong 😭 after starting this thread and getting everything cleared up it was perfect. Had multiple people over during the 4th of July and everything stayed perfectly clear and levels stayed good (see pool math logs). The...

I'll add my 2 cents on the Polk atriums! I got a pair of the Atrium 6 and they are insanely loud and crystal clear. Had patriotic music pumping through them last night while the neighborhood set off their fireworks and pretty sure everyone could hear them with the fireworks 😁 got a 100x2 watt...

Thanks to both of you for your help! Think i have a plan in place and an idea of how to maintain it! If i run my pump for 12 hours per day looks like i will need to set my SWG to 58% to create 3 FC per day. So i will start with that and adjust as needed based on usage. Taking the CYA level and...

apologies for the delayed answer, got started on projects yesterday and finished up just in time to roll into bed last night! So i'm not sure how to answer that question as its going to be very variable..... my wife is a teacher and is off in the summers with our kids. so if they are home and...

Awesome, I'll let my FC get back down to normal and then get an idea of how much i loose during a typical day to try and figure out the % to set it at. obviously i don't want it to go too low while figuring this out so should i set it to 50% or something like that as a starting point? then if i...

Doh! Sorry about that, sig updated, but its a pentair IC-60. Thanks for the help!!! as far as covering goes, we pretty much have the pool covered whenever we aren't using it. my wifes super paranoid about someone falling in so unless i'm doing something during the day, like raising the PH, or we...

morning! ok, so i did the OCLT, tested the water about 9:30pm my time and FC was 17.5. Closed the cover and let it sit overnight. Woke up a little late this morning and didn't get it tested until about 9:30am :D but its cloudy here and the cover was on so think I should be OK there, tested and...

Couple of quick questions.... Done with work for the day and just got done vacuuming the pool and retesting the water. Water looks 100% clear to both myself and my wife. FC was 16 and CC was .5. last step in SLAM is to do the overnight loss test. Do I need to bring the FC back up to 20 before I...

SLAM process started last night.... got the FC up to 20 and deleted my schedule so the pump would run all the time..... got up this morning and tested and FC was still at 20 and CC was 1 so was thinking yay! but then the water was still cloudy so looked at the app and saw that the pump still...

thanks! i'll do the SLAM process and see what happens. I guess i never technically did it all the way before since we left on vacation i had no choice but to dump the LC in and leave it. however when i got back (2 weeks later) the water was clear and i did the OCLT and only loss 1 FC so with the...

Hey all! I'm experiencing a 2nd round of cloudy water and looking for some guidance on what could be causing it. Several weeks ago we were getting ready to leave on vacation and the day before we left we opened the cover on the pool was very cloudy looking, where the day before it had been...

hello fellow iowa pool owner! we just put our pool in last fall and looks really similar to yours! (my build thread Our Pool Build! ) didn't really get to use it last year so we are just now getting use out of ours and loving it so far! you will be super happy once its done! i'm still learning...

Thanks for the reply! I did dump some of this in it https://smile.amazon.com/BioGuard-Super-Soluble-Chlorine-Lb/dp/B006MHSH5K/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&keywords=super+chlorine&qid=1621627210&sr=8-5 based on the pool companies recommendation after having them test the water. this was towards the end of...

Got my TF-100 water test kit in and here is my test results with it! FC = 1.5 CC = .5 TC = 2 TA = 140 PH = 7.5 CYA = 60 CH = Didn't test I had my SWG output set to 12% so I upped it to 30% to get some more chlorine pumping out. Knowing that my PH is good should I mess with trying to bring the...

got my TF100 test kit ordered! So will report back once it gets here and i run the tests with it. won't be putting anything else in until i get that kit and see what it says! In the meantime i've got the pool cover opened burning off some FC. just using the strips that i have its showing the...