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Hi all. This is my first winter and I’m trying to learn my system. Since we’ve had weather in the 30’s this week my pump has been shifting to run in spa mode instead of pool mode. This comes with higher rpm’s (2350 vs 1850) than my normal pool mode. I assume this is something that was programmed...

Hi everyone, I am going into my first central texas winter with our pool and have a few questions regarding dealing with the occasional cold snaps that come our way. Number one with the SWG. I am currently set to run 18 hours a day at 30% on our undersized pentair IC20. With the lower temps...

Hello again, TFP! I’m wondering if I should add calcium chloride to my pool or not based on my most recent testing. Over the 6 months or so I’ve had this pool I’ve noticed the CH number slowly come down. We’ve had a pretty mild summer by texas standards but I have added probably 2500 gallons...

Hi everyone. I’ve been having an issue for the last week where I can’t log into my system remotely. I can still log in locally, so presumably the connection between the control panel and the WiFi is still good. But for some reason when I try remotely it says: ERROR: login rejected by gateway...

Just got back home to the pool and found a bit of a mess. As we walked up there were a bunch of crepe Myrtle blooms floating on the surface…not a great sign as our skimmers normally work really well. Next found that the pump was not running. We were out of cell and WiFi range so I didn’t get...

I have a spa that sits above our pool and is supposed to spill water over the spillway and into the pool. It doesn’t seem to be doing this, however. My pump is running at 1900-2000 rpm’s and 34 gpm and all of the pool returns are working. The return valve for the spa appears to be on, but I...

Wanted to follow up on a previous post here now that I am a few days out from leaving for 2 weeks. Was having some trouble maintaining FC as my SWG is a little undersized and we had some early hot weather in late May/early June. Was running the SWG at 80% for 17 hrs a day and it couldn’t keep...

I’ve had a few of these strange white deposits on a few of my tiles nearly from when we first filled up our new pool this February. I can’t say exactly when I first noticed them but it was definitely before I finally got my TF100 test kit in March. Any guesses as to what they are and how I can...

Hi all, I am going to be out of town on vacation for about 2 weeks later this month and I’m wondering how best to prepare the pool for the time away in the peak of the texas summer. Current levels FC 6.0 PH 7.9 TA 80 CYA 60 Salt 3400 CH 350 I’m particularly worried about my undersized SWG’s...

Came home from work today to a red light and low flow error on my pentair IC-20 salt cell. At first only the solid red low flow light was on but the salt level light was green. I shut the system down and restarted, now I have no flow and it’s flashing a low salt error as well. Just checked...

So I’m new here and trying to get a feel for how to maintain my pool in the first year of operation. It has gone well so far but I’m a little concerned I may have algae beginning. We had a Memorial Day party in which we had about 20 people in and out of the pool over about a 5-6 hour period on...

Ok, after being up and running for about a month now I am feeling some level of confidence about my ability to maintain my pool in the TFP way. My numbers all seem to be in range on poolmath with the exception of my CH number which stays consistently just out of range on the low side. Is this...

Ok, so I am trying to learn how to manage my new salt pool with pebbletec. Test at Leslie’s had the following: Free chlorine 0.21 Total chlorine 0.74 PH 7.9 TA 94 CH 127 CYA 20 Salt 3335 Turned the SWG to super chlorination for 4 hours. Should I go for longer? Also, should I also add...