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I ask this question from time to time. All of the chemistry in my pool is great. CYA 30 chlorine is good. PH is about 7.4 but the TA is 30. It has been that way for a couple of years now. I've been told not to worry. This is a long time to be so far out of range on a test. Are we sure it is not...

Hoping for a mechanics trick. I have a really old Amerilite pool light that is 12v and for some insane reason they put the wire in half inch electrical PVC. The wire is probably #12 and I am guessing near 100ft long. I believe all of the conduit is under concrete. When I had the liner installed...

Not sure if I should worry about TA at 50 with PH at 7.5. Everything looks good. I haven't been fighting anything. What do you think? If I throw a little CYA in it wont do anything to the TA will it?

CYA 50 Clorine 4 How do I get the TA up?

I have Polaris 280 with a Polaris booster pump. I have had this for about 10 years and it worked great. There has always been a little water coming from the overflow valve where the clener connects into the pool. Who cares? It worked fine. I started it up the other day and the cleaner wasn't...

I have an SD 80 sand filter. The valve cracked on it and it is spraying water right where the pipe goes in from the pump. The part number says 272526 but below it has some more numbers that include 262506. When I search the internet I seem to be able to find the 262506 but not the 272526. Does...

Ive been adjusting my chemicals. CYA is 20 I had to add a lot of Muratic to get my pH to 7.8 Now my TA is 200 Water is clear. I've never had TA problems before. The PH tends to climb in this pool and I have to add acid occasionally. Nothing abnormal though.

I have a Starite puck chlorinator that came with the pool when I bought the house. It's never really worked right. I have the little valve turned all the way up but I have always gone a year between buckets of those pucks. I am told that if it was working properly I would have to buy a lot more...

I just replace my liner so all of the water is new. It is groundwater. All I have added is chlorine. The calculator says it is not for setup. Cl 3.5 PH 7.2 TA 20 CYA 0 There didn't appear to be any combined chlorine. I've maintained the pool for about 4 years now. The PH and TA stays really...

The liner guy was supposed to change the light with the liner. It's a 12 V 300 watt light. It must be in about 50 ft of conduit back to the transformer. It must make a 90 bend somewhere. He could not get the wire to pull back through the conduit so he could replace the light. They really should...

I searched around and didn't find the answer. I'm sure the question has been asked before. I just installed a bunch of new equipment and I'm not sure where to set the pump speed for backwashing the sand filter.

I installed a new Intelliflo 11018 with a D80 sand filter. I know I was advised to use a bigger filter but I just didn't have the cash. I think this one still has a lot more capacity than the 100 Sq Ft paper cartridge that I had. I just got it in this afternoon and haven't really had time to...

My power company offered a $600 rebate to install an Intellifo 11018 pump on my pool. I pay crazy power bills here so any help is appreciated. Remember here, that I am an idiot and never checked the specs on things when I bought the house. Right now I have a common staright pump with a 100 sq ft...

My electric company will give a $600 rebate for a new pool pump. I am pasting the blurb from their web site. I am thoroughly confused. The intelliflo VS 3050 I can find for about $900 bucks but it says it needs a controller. If you guys can give me some advice here I sure would apreciate it...

I had a buddy that patched a hole in the very bottom corner of the deep end. The hole wasn't all tha big but it had left a big dimple about the size of a half a baseball. The patch sucked into the hole and seemed to work okay. This was back in the spring. Now I am losing a lot of water and I...

The pool is beautiful. The water is perfectly clear. All the chlorine has been free for a long time now. Chlorine .5 (I'll add some liquid tonight) CYA 40 TA 60 PH 7.4 I'm never really sure when to start adjusting on TA and PH so I usually just post results here. You folks have never let me...

The pool looks pretty good. It was beginning to turn green so I took the chlorine up to 14. It has been leaking a little all winter and I think I have it fixed now so I don't have any CYA. I've never had to adjust much on TA. Right now it is off a little so I want to get some advice before I add...

I have a very small hole in the wall that is about 2 inches from the bottom of the pool. I also have no experience patching vinyl pools. I found this in the summer. We bought a patch kit and tried it. The instructions were pretty weak and I didn't like the way the whole thing went down. The leak...

I have been trouble shooting my light systems today and I have it down to 2 possibilities. Either something is wrong with the wire going to the light or something is wrong inside the light. The transformer and source is fine. 1. I get different readings every time I ohm back into the line going...

The puck feeder in my pool has never done much good. I have to add a lot of liquid to keep the numbers in range. This morning I began to wonder about how much chlorine is actually in one of those pucks. What chlorine concentration would you get if you dissloved one of those pucks in some...

I have been running like crazy the last few days and ran out of chlorine. The water turned green on me but I got to it quickly. The problem is I just threw bleach at it till I could test the water. I put 5 gallons the first night and 2.5 the next morning. The next night I threw another container...

I have been fighting algae. Right now the pool looks pretty good. It is 10:30 at night and the chlorine level is at 13 the CYA is at 30. I added 5 gallons of pool store chlorine late this afternoon that got it to 13. According to the charts and calculators I need to add another gallon to get...

I've been tweeking the pool for a couple of weeks now and I think it is coming along. CYA is 20. I have been adding stablizer a little at the time. I will add a little more this afternoon. The PH is 7.5 but the TA is 130. As best I can tell I really shouldn't do anything. Am I correct? I added...

37000 gal in ground vinyl lined 1 hp pump with cartridge filter No chlorine so I didn't test for total/free The pool store is closed so I can't get chlorine till tomorrow PH 7.8 TA 140 CYA off scale I filled the TF100 tube to the with the proper mixture and could see all the way to the top. I...