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    Is my filter not working well?

    I'm in California where the wind/fires happened. No fires near me but the wind pushed a lot of dirt into my pool. Probably the dirtiest I've seen it. I have some steps and I brush the dirt onto the floor for my Dolphin robot to vacuum but a few hours later a new layer of dirt is settled on...
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    Replacing Old Pool Light

    I have a 25 year old pool. Recently my pool light turned off suddenly and tripped the GFCI. After resetting the GFCI, the pool light no longer turns on. I assume it needs to be replaced. The pattern on the rim of the niche looks like a Pentair Amerlite. What are my options if I want an RGB...
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    Pool Math with Borates

    Maybe I'm doing something wrong but when I am tracking Borates, the amount of acid it's recommending me to add doesn't seem right. For my 13k volume pool with pH of 7.8 and target of 7.2 and TA of 90 it told me to give about 30 oz or 31% muriatic acid. Because I am interested in using borates...
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    Water Softener and Salt Chlorine Generators

    I have a salt pool and recently installed a water softener for my house. I didn't realize til after the softener was installed that my pool fill line is coming from the house and not the landscape irrigation. My city has very hard water where calcium is at about 400. When I bought the house a...
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    Change aux assignment for Jandy RS Indoor Controller

    I have a controller inside the house that labels Pool Light and Spa Light. Initially pool light was aux 1 and spa light aux 2. But I recently had changed dipswitch 1 to On to use aux 1 to control Cleaner. So now my pool light is aux 5. My controller doesn't have a button for aux 5. Is there a...
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    Installing Valve Actuator between wall suction and skimmer/main drain

    I inherited this pool when I bought my house. It looks like the pool returns splits off into wall suction and skimmer/main drain. I believe the skimmer and main drain share the same return pipe. There is a valve that lets me manually control the amount of flow that is split from the wall...
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    iAquaLink 3.0 Connection Issues

    Used to work flawlessly for months without disconnects. It now appears offline and when I go to the box, all 3 LEDs are solid red, yellow, and green, which means no errors. When I check my router though, I do not see my iAquaLink connected to the router. It is on a dedicated 2.4ghz SSID. I...
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    How much flow is needed for spa bypass?

    I've owned this salt water pool for a couple years now and I have it on a schedule where for 2 hours it runs at 2200 rpm so that the skimmer and vacuum can do it's thing. And then for 6 hours I run at a lower 1400 rpm. These settings have been working fine for 2 years but the other day I came...
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    Question about FC/CYA recommendations in salt pool

    I've been using this chart: Chlorine / CYA Chart I didn't notice that there was a separate tab for chlorine vs salt. I have a salt pool. I understand that a higher CYA makes FC less effective but why is the FC recommendation for a given CYA level for a salt pool lower than liquid chlorine...
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    DE went back into Pool....what to do now?

    So my pool person was supposed to clean the filter yesterday. I came home and noticed the pool was a little hazy. I brushed the sides of the pool and dust-like particles were everywhere on the surfaces of my pool forming clouds as I brushed. I'm not sure how it happened but my pool person...
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    Vacuum Hose Degraded during SLAM

    Just wondering if this is normal and I should have taken the hose out of the pool during the slam? I had my free chlorine around 16 for 5 days and it's back down to 6 today. I pulled my hose out of the pool and it literally fell apart at multiple points. Even the vacuum cleaner has some...
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    GFCI Protection

    So I have a GFCI outlet that is on the side of my Aqualink Power Center. The outlet is GFCI and works. I inserted a outlet tester and hit the GFCI test button and nothing happens. I hit the test button on the outlet itself and nothing happens. Does this mean my entire power center is not...
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    Difficult Differentiating Black Algae from PebbleTec

    So my salt cell is dying I believe because 2 independent tests showed a salt level of 3000 and my chlorine generator says I only have 2200 sometimes and will stop generating. My water is still pretty clear but I noticed some green algae along the walls and hundreds of small "colonies" of black...
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    Changing SWG Brands

    So my pool started to grow some algae. I suspect it is my salt cell. My salt levels read low despite third party testing that it is sufficient and it sometimes stops generating chlorine. I just upgraded my automation system to Jandy iAqualink so I think I would rather at this time switch to a...
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    Wiring Intelliflo and Aqualink

    I have an Intelliflo VSF pump and an Aqualink RS4 automation system. My Aqualink is very old and I am planning to upgrade it to iAqualink but before I do that I opened up my power center to look at how it was previously wired. I discovered that I have an IntelliCom II hooked up. Is this...
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    Upgrading to iAquaLink

    Hello. I have a very old aqualink rs4 from around 1998. From what I have gathered it is pretty easy to upgrade to iAquaLink using the iq30rs conversion kit myself, right? I have a remote control panel in my house and controls in the spa. Will these still work if I upgrade the pcb? Also, the...
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    Intelliflow VS Pump and Aqualink RS4

    Hello. I just bought a house where the previous owners set the aqualink to run the pump for 8 hours a day. The pump speed at the pump was set at 2500. This defeats the purpose of a VS pump right? I was reading the manual and as far as I could tell, the aqualink cannot control the speed of the...