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Bought a pentair SI from Marina in 2021, it's already dead! Watched all the videos took it all apart twice and still not working I think the board is fried as there was some moisture inside the motor box. Not much but the absorbing pad in there was wet. Anyways the cord is worn out and the...

My high salt light is flashing, unit says 4400 PPM of salt and my Taylor kit says 3800. Is there a way to calibrate these? It’s still producing chlorine but I may need to dilute

Does CYA slowly burn off in an environment like Phoenix Arizona? I swear I had mine up to 70 and now it’s 55

How is everyone controlling their PH? Now that I have this pool pretty easy to take care of I’m looking to make it even easier! I check the chlorine once a week and keep tabs on the other vital stuff occasionally, my pool is perfect for the first time in my life thanks to the SWG But my PH is...

How accurate is this kit? It seems to test way low for me. I am dealing with a pool that is losing water, for now it’s holding with the water feature off and the auto fill off so I added salt to 3400 on my RJ45 and it’s generating fine. But when I test the water with the Taylor test kit it...

Recently bought this house, pool has an auto fill system so it has always stayed full. So I converted to salt and have been noticing my salt and CYA levels dropping very fast, there is no rain or splash out right now. Anyways I shut off the auto fill system and it dropped like 3 inches...

All my entries are within suggested range but still my CSI is terrible, how is this possible and how much does water temp factor in?

Got my RJ 45 installed and working today, it’s generating chlorine just fine at 60 deg water. It’s 3x oversized so I am going to start off at 10% since I am running the pump 17 hours a day at 1500 rpm and see where that takes me

Can someone please explain the logic behind higher CYA when using SWG? Also the instructions that came with my SWG says to keep it a lot lower than pool math. Seems like it will take a lot more liquid chlorine when it is too cold to generate on its own

Bought this house last year, first day in I had to replace the pool pump as we had a big storm and the old single stage wasn’t sealed and shorted out. Anyways it was old and it had a sand filter so $2700 later I have a cartridge filter and a Pentair VS pump. When he installed it ( I did t...

Just bought a new house with old pool equipment and the pump already went out with all the storms here in Arizona. All I want to do is get this thing working again by replacing the motor until it cools off enough to do all the equipment. Motor is a AO smith K48M2N110C1. It’s a smaller pool...

So I bought a SJ 35 for my 19k pool , pretty easy install and all was good it was making chlorine. Went away for 3 days and came back to barely any free chlorine and the red flow light on. After playing with it by removing flow switch re booting several times it started working again, then next...

Home depot here has crystal pool salt and also crystal softener salt, is it worth the extra $2 a bag for the pool salt?

I have an approx 20k pool in Phoenix that I am putting a SJ 35 on, instructions say after the filter so it will be on the lower pipe in this pic. I’m thinking of coming out sideways then up with the risers , any advice will be appreciated

I’m helping my son with his pool in Phoenix, AZ. The water needs to be changed badly because of crazy high CYA and CH. I’ve been told that his plaster may crack if drained in this heat, it’s already old and in bad shape and he plans to get it redone in a couple years. Anyone have any...

The Taylor 1000 kit that that came with my TF test kit is pretty basic( yes I know I can do the powder test in the TF kit) but that is time consuming and I figure I will only use that to check for CC. The 1000 kit only goes to 5, is there another kit that goes to 10?

I have a 13,500 gallon plaster pool with a Pentair VSP, 60cu DE and no heater or spa. The SJ 35 is on sale right now for $749.. is this a good unit? I talked to discount salt today and he told me with a VSP to just run it very low RPM for the hours you don’t want to generate chlorine then boost...

Just got a Pentair SI which I guess is the same as dolphin 200. How many days a week do you run it? I was thinking of every day but don’t want to wear it out unnecessarily

Got one coming today from Marina... can’t use it for 3 more weeks per the plaster company ☹️ Thanks all for the recommending marina they were great to deal with and awesome prices

Just installed a used Pentair intelliflow VSP on my freshly plastered pool. Right now I am running 24 hours a day to clear out the plaster dust ans running at 2000 rpm. Going off my last electric Bill ( $65 for 414KW) ( pool was off all last month) I estimate it’s costing me about $2 a day to...

I’m starting up a freshly plastered pool, and the instructions on day 4 say to test my CARBONATE alkalinity. What is that? How do I test that with my TF kit?

Being in the demolition industry I stumble across a lot of stuff, yesterday I show up to look at a house and pool we are going to demo and find what looks to be a fairly new aquarite SWG system with a T cell-15 which is for a 40k pool. Im going to install this on my pool, my question is... can...

Anyone use perlite instead of DE? Been thinking of trying it and saw some in the garden department at Home Depot. The stuff there seemed too coarse so I didn’t buy it, should I order on Amazon? $33 for 13 lbs. thanks

Free to a good home .. cypress, California

All you see is bottles of NO PHOS etc etc. what is this stuff? They have more snake oil on the shelves than actually useful stuff Went in because I will be filling my pool with water soon( being remodeled). Needed some metal free and conditioner plus some muriatic acid ( theirs is twice as...

Just got my TF-100 test kit and tested my fill water FC .5 PH 7.7 CYA 0 CH 325 TA.... Get this .... 390! So once I fill the pool I will be following the guidelines set by the pool company, what worries me is the TA. Should I expect to be adding a lot of acid ?

Is the SLAM process only needed when your CC goes up or you have algae issues?

My no frills pool ( just 17k no heater no spa etc) has a 1HP single speed pump. I have a 3 HP pentair intelliflo VSP sitting in my garage I got off a job but it’s 8 years old. Is this pump way too big? Should I risk installing it knowing it may go out soon?

Looking to get a new timer to replace my very old mechanical timer. Anyone use this model ? GE Z-Wave Plus 40-Amp Indoor/Outdoor Metal Box Smart Switch, Direct Wire, 120-277VAC, for Pools, Pumps, Patio Lights, AC Units, Electric Water Heaters, 14285...

Are these worth having? I ordered the TF-100 test kit and didn’t order the smart stir, is this Taylor from Amazon the exact same thing? Taylor 9265 Magnetic Stirrer Speedstir Start-Up Pack w/ Stir Bar + Batteries Taylor 9265 Magnetic Stirrer Speedstir Start-Up Pack w/ Stir Bar + Batteries...