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What do you use to loosen and tighten your connection? I can’t for the life of me loosen one of the connections by hand. I tried tapping with a mallot first no luck. I’m a fairly strong guy. I really don’t want to go and buy a 36”+ pipe wrench for $100 if I don’t have to but I’m running out of...

Just curious what everybody’s most annoying pool insect is. Mine is HANDS DOWN the “Winged” Ant. These things are rediculous. Several times during the swimmer it’s Winged Ant season and they come in swarms! I can pull them out with the net but they just keep coming! I call them the Kamikaze Ants...

Helping a buddy SLAM his pool. I measure CYA at 60 he insists it’s 70. His pool, he wants to use cya 70 so we will slam at 28 FC. Anyways, my question is , at the high FC levels of a Slam will the FC fall to the Slam level? Example: nighttime we measure 28 FC we wake up early morning and it’s...

just curious if anybody heard how long Pentair will continue to build parts/maintain the Easy Touch? I would imagine at some point they will discontinue this for ET and only provide maintenance/parts for the IC. It’s just the way of the world. Lol.

My Racer is giving me problems so I’m going to bite the bullet and buy a Robot. Do I need to plug off the port where the Racer is anchored in the pool?? Or just disconnect it and go about my business?

Down here in Houston do you see any problem just leaving the robot in the pool 24/7? I don’t feel like having to take this thing out if I don’t need to. Yes we have some cold days and pool water in the 50’s for a month or two. I don’t have heavy cleaning here. Just some occasional leaves and...

I have often wondered how long it takes to visually see effects from an out of whack CSI. For instance, CSI is at -0.8. How long does it take to see effects in the pool itself/equipment if you maintain that CSI? We talking days, weeks, months,etc?

I read somewhere before on TFP about the difference between the PH in the pool and the PH inside the SWG but I can’t find it anywhere. I’m curious is it higher or lower inside the SWG as opposed to the pool and by what “approximate” value? What are the factors that affect the difference. I...

This will be my fourth time cleaning this SWG. Every time it’s a royal pain in the butt to get the thread on the left of the pic (behind the heater) free. If I don’t over tighten it leaks. Every time sane thing. Unfortunately my pool builder decided to put it so there is not much distance...

My water is sitting at 58 deg F. Did a CYA test and sitting at 60. I can’t remember if this test reads optimistic or pessimistic in cold water. I’m not going to wait until the sample warms up to room temp.

Went out this morning and noticed the Jandy valve was leaking. Very slightly. Definitely from the valve and not the unions to the pvc. Very small but it’s leaking. Obviously this is the valve that rotates during freeze protection between pool and spa. Probably why my spa drains down to the jets...

I’ve often wondered the meaning on this site of scaling from “hard water” or just high Calcium. As an example my water here is extremely hard. We have calcium deposits all over our inside water features. It is widely known down here the water is hard. However when I test my faucet water for Ca...

I realize there is a cold water shut off on my IC40. Mine is at 57 deg water temp. Anyways I’m wondering if it’s possible to damage the cell running it at a cold water temp? As an example at water temp of 59 deg the cell can come on and produce chlorine. I got to think in some way the cell could...

Just curious how long u should get out of these. My spa light is going berserk, wrong color and flickers constantly. I’ve had my pool for 3.5 years. I very rarely use my lights. I actually find them annoying with the bugs. Anyways to replace one light is like $1000. Rediculous for something I...

I’m trying to figure out if I should leave my Glacier Chiller running while I’m out of town. My wife won’t know what to do if their is a problem. My concern is one of the automated valves. I’m wondering what happens if the automated valve dies and doesn’t flip to 12:00. See pic 2. When chiller...

Just curious will the FC always fall quickly to the target level? Let’s say for example my SWG pool my current CYA is 80 (target level 6). If I raise my FC to 10 using LC and my daily FC demand is 3 and my SWG is set to produce 3 FC will my FC still fall to 6 as its trying to get to the target...

I’m at 4200 ppm with a blinking green salt light everything else is green. Green light is coming on showing it is producing chlorine. My question is even though the chlorine light is green it is producing chlorine right? Basically the cell can produce chlorine with a high salt reading correct...

I’ve seen lots of different posts with different answers. If at 70 the dot is still visible but at 60 dot is gone is the CYA 70 or is it 60??

Let’s say my pool equipment was installed Jan 2018. I had a flow switch give out and was fixed Jan 2020 obviously within the 3 yr Pentair Warranty. If the flow switch failed again in July 2021 would that be covered under warranty . I realize it’s past the initial 3 years but that same part that...

I have the Whale brush already. While great on vertical walls I do not like to use it on horizontal surfaces (ledge,bottom of pool,etc). I have had no less than 6 brushes in last three years. Have spent easily $200 on brushes from Lowe’s,Home Dept, Leslie’s. They’ve all broken. I don’t care...

is there anyway to have the IC40 do a salt Measurement more than once every 12 hours? (Other than physically restarting it). I ask because down here in Houston we get some pretty darn hard rain. Yesterday I was at 3900 ppm on the Screen Logic. Heavy rains last night and u just looked and I’m...

How fast during a slam can you expect the FC level to fall to the SLAM level? Example you think the CYA is 70 but it’s actually 60 (or who knows possibly 50) for an SWG pool. If u raise the FC to 28 how fast would you expect it to fall during the day to 20-24 if your CYA is actually 50/60? Is it...

Anybody have any tips they can share on what they do/use to control/kill the wasps? Yes I realize killing the nest is the best way. I’ve done that but I still have tons of these pests flying around. Heck even some landing in the pool. I’m looking for something other than “spraying them with...

Anybody know of places to order quality one person pool rafts? I don’t mind spending $100+ for them. Places other than the usual Amazon,Frontgate,etc.

Anybody used this yet? Just curious. I’d drop the $100 if it works. https://transducersdirect.com/products/pressure-transducers/wireless-pressure-transducers/tdwlb-lc-rppf-wireless-pressure-gauge-pool-filters-pumps/

Do they make a special tool for opening this plug (other than pair of pliers)? What a pain. Mine is tough to get to based off how they ran the piping and where they positioned the drain plug in relation to that. With a pair of pliers a complete nightmare. When I clean the filter I typically just...

I’m just curious things to be aware of when starting this back up. Obviously here in Houston I’ve never “Winterized” my pool. I was able to drain all the equipment within 20 minutes of power going out and got tons of water out. I let it drip empty for some time as well. Anyways besides refilling...

What does this do? Just place it in skimmer basket? I don’t get it. I’ve drained everything now trying to figure this out. They need to be plastic? What else can u use?

I know this is a general question and depends on a lot but at 15 deg maybe a few hours? I mean tough to see inside all of the pieces too see if ice is forming. Maybe Intelliflow.

When my freeze protection kicks in my water in my spa always drops. When I wake up in the morning the water level is down to the jets. I have to manually go out and shift the return valve to Spa so it will fill back up when it flips back to Pool. Is this normal? Is there a way to fix that...