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I'm having a problem with a frog(s) visiting my pool at night and leaving a couple of calling cards on the steps. In the past I have found one in the pool in the morning, caught him with the net and catapulted him high in the air and away from the pool, thinking the hard landing might discourage...

Jim, I'm not sure what the difference is, I can look at Sreenlogic and it will tell me what the RPM is that is associated with the GPM and I can see that might vary a little with temperature. What would be different if I set the RPM vs the GPM? Steve

Jim, Something I neglected to mention. Before backwash my wattage was 150 watts and after it is 100. Seems like it might be significant enough to do the more frequent backwash. Steve

Jim, Thanks, I am also using the hair nets which keep a ton of stuff from getting to the filter. I am going to follow your recomendation of every six months. Steve

Jim, This is a new installation this year and this is only the second time I have backwashed. I am running very low pressure through the filter (less than 5 psi). I guess I can go for a longer period maybe six months. I will continue and if the robot doesn't stop showing signs of DE I will need...

Yesterday I did a backwash on my STA-RITE DE filter. 3 Backwashes for 2 minutes each at approx 50 gpm and then a 10 sec rinse. I then placed a slurry mix of DE (75% of original DE capacity, 2.8 lbs (might have put a little more, between .1 and .2 lbs)). After about an hour I shut the pump off...

We recently had a cool deck (spray deck) done and there were a couple of places that were not done right. They came back in and ground down a ton of places and re-did them. We can see every place that they re-did. They are not obvious to someone coming over but we can see them. Knowing what I...

Bill, Thanks for taking the time to respond. I will look into that further and wonder if there is anyway to look at history and see if it happens all the time. Unfortunately I don't remember the exact time this happened.

Thanks, I was thinking about trying that but wasn't sure what chemicals are in it. I will give it a try.

Marty, Only one pool schedule, 8:00 am to 8:00 pm. Steve

I was standing next to the pump filter etc recording information from the sacraficial zinc when all of a sudden the pump stopped and a few seconds later restarted. I thought at first we had a power blip but went into the house and none of the usual blinking clocks were blinking. Any thoughts?

Any suggestions on what to use to clean the inside of the skimmer? Pretty black from whatever. Don't want to have any nasty cleaning agents get into the pool. Steve

Figured out how to get it out but not sure what was causing it to stick. Unable to get it to stick again.

I am finding the Weir on my Hayward skimmer sticking closed at times and not letting enough water in. I think I saw something about sanding a little off the sides but I'm not sure how to remove it to work on it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Steve

Thanks, Glad I asked. Steve

This might sound stupid but so far I have found several settings that the pool builder did not have correct. The suction side of the filter has a tee with one side coming from the bottom drain and the other from the skimmer. There's a valve that allows you to vary the percentage. It is currently...

Thanks, ordered. Steve

Pressure gauge on filter is full of moisture. Any suggestions on a quality waterproof gauge? Steve

Jim, Bingo, that was the issue and just to prove it out I put it back to RPM and GPM and it did not work. Thanks again! Steve

Jim, Just checked the RPM associated with 28 GPM and it is 1300 RPM.

Jim, Thanks again for taking the time. I am using the 28 GPM based on circulating the pool water once in the 12 hour period that I have the pump running. I think I read that it was recommended to circulate all the pool water once in a 24 hour period. If that's not correct please let me know and...

Jim, Thanks so much for taking the time to reply. See attachments, what am I missing? Steve

I have created a function called Swim-Out which increase the pump flow to provide the massaging affect through the jets. It appears that I cannot just start that function without stopping the regular pool function which runs 12 hrs a day. I would like to be able to use ScreenLogic to turn on the...

Jim, Thanks for taking the time to reply. I had not looked at the egg timer and wasn't aware that there were automatic run times there. I will check that out further. I would normally have the landscape lights turn off around midnight (using ET) but we have been having some trouble with...

I am having a problem keeping my landscape lights on all the time. I have the lights set for dusk to dawn within the Volt transformer. I have the transformer wired into my Pentair Easytouch and controls work properly. If I just turn on the circuit in ScreenLogic it eventually shuts it off ( is...

Marty, Been away for a few days, thanks for taking the time to reply. Steve

Using the TF100 test to check FC I ran the test using the speedstir I added drops till the water turned clear. I walked away for a few minutes and when I can back I could now see a little pink. Did I not add enough drops or could it change just sitting there?