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Greetings. My 6-year-old Pentair Whisperflo Two Speed 1 HP motor just went up in smoke. Lights flickered and I happened to be near the breaker panel and heard a breaker trip. Saw it was the pool pump 220 breaker and then went outside to find smoke coming from the motor! So... I need to...

My heater started doing this outa nowhere. Any ideas? IMG_4788.MOV

Hello all, I have about 9 spots in my pool where the gunite is visible. Pictures of some of them attached. They are on the smaller side, no bigger than a fist at the largest one. I did some research on how much it would be for replaster and everything I read was saying $5-10k. I got two...

First time replacing the cover on a pool we inherited from buying the house... it's a solid safety cover. Dark green and super heavy. Over the winter a deer jumped on it and tore a giant hole in it. The deer fell in the pool and we had to call fire and police to get it out... it was quite the...

My Dolphin Active 30i stopped turning side to side today. It is actually automatically turning itself off after about a minute of starting now as well. If I put it in manual drive I can move forward and back fine. However, trying to turn it just pops a wheely and sets back down without...

Upon opening my pool this year the bulb in my pool light seemed to have died. I replaced it with an LED one. (I replaced the gasket as well). However, as I was putting it back in the niche I noticed a weird phenomenon... If I rotate the assembled housing about 20 degrees to the right, the...

I've read countless threads on various forums, as well as many web pages on the topic. The general consensus I get from this forum is, leave it off during the day if it's sunny, hot, and there's little to no wind. However, I've also read plenty of people claiming they get better results...

I have off of work tomorrow and was supposed to have my T104R and T106R delivered today so I can install them tomorrow, but amazon logistics failed and I don't know when I'm getting them now. I can't find a T106 anywhere locally, but I can get the T104R from depot. Is there a way to use two...

Little backstory - I opened my pool last weekend with the plan to replace and redo all of my filter equipment and plumbing directly associated with it with year. I took the cover off (solid cover) and water looked pretty good. With the old equipment still in place I "wasted" a bunch of the...

I spent at least an hour reviewing threads on this forum and reading everything from "cavitation cannot be seen in the strainer" to "cavitation can occur with too much velocity / turning just before the inlet" and also describing cavitation as "champagne bubbles" which I believe is what I see...

I spent all day Saturday redoing my plumbing... and now I'm going to have to re-do it all over again. Not necessarily because of the 90 degree elbow into the pump, but because I accidentally used all dwv rated couplers and elbows :(. I figured all of this out when I went to read the wiring...

I opened my pool today and when I released the seal on my main drain, there was no release of air from the water going down into the pipes :(. Leads me to believe the seal wasn't air tight and over time it slowly leaked and water filled the pipes. It wasn't the coldest winter we've had in PA...

Setting up all new plumbing for this year... I have this multiport (Pentair 261152 2-Inch): https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B001F6S9TC/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1 And this filter (Pentair 180008 FNS Plus)...

I am looking to redo all of my aging equipment this season (pump, multi-port, filter, valves) as one valve cracked during closing and I had numerous problems with the pump housing, multiport, and filter last season. Currently I have a 1.5HP pump with 1.5-inch plumbing, a 37-sqft DE filter, and...

I'm using pucks right now because my CYA is on the low end (and after 1+ months seems to be holding stable) and supplementing with 8.25% (Home Depot) bleach. I know it's not the reccomended method here, but alas. My filter had been running from 10:30am to 7:30pm every day. I get home around...

I'm ready to start adjusting my water but I have no idea how many gallons are in this pool. My inspector when I bought the house estimated 30,000 I think. My estimates after trying a variety of methods ranged from 25,000 to 32,000. Pool store guy said 37,000. Any math wizzes out there? :)

I just bought a dolphin active 30i because the old Polaris 180 that I inherited was on its last legs. Both the unit and the pump. Anyways, wondering what I should do with the old port hole for it. If I leave it as is (remove the pump and reconnect the line-- [it junctions off of the return...

Draining my pool right now to fix CYA levels, and just when the water level got below the light, the light went out. Won't turn back on. Think there is something that actually requires water contact or something like that going on or just a coincidence and now I need a new light, too?

I just opened the pool (first time owner) and coated my DE filter for my first time. I ran the filter for 3 days straight and it seems to be functioning as I understood it would. My base reading after coating it was about 10lbs of pressure. It gradually climbed up to 20 almost after only a...

I am a new pool owner and beginning to wish I never started reading the internet on this stuff and just listen to the pool store guys because (at least for now) I would be much calmer. I just bought a house in October of last year and immediately closed the pool (in PA) so have never even been...

What at the general recommendations for installing safety line? I have a in-ground concrete/plaster/gunite pool without any hooks right now. Plaster walls, tile around the top of the walls, and then coping that is exactly like this...

New pool owner here after having bought a house with a 30,000 gallon kidney shaped gunite pool. I've spent about 2 hours trying to find different pool opening guides and decided I would just post to see if I can get an answer as I find too many different idea of too many different setups...

Anyone tried one of these for their filter pump and/or vac pump? WiOn 50054 Outdoor Wi-Fi Smart Box WiOn 50054 Outdoor Wi-Fi Smart Box - - Amazon.com Seems like a great price compared to the Intermatic options.

Hello all, first time pool owner here after acquiring a house with a pool at the end of the season last year. Haven't had a chance to go into said pool yet as we bought the house in October (Pennsylvania) and closed it a few weeks later. While I kept the pump/filter going during that time at...