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Hi Folks I've been running the TFP way for a long time. I don't post here much because I don't have a complicated set up and, I guess, I have been pretty lucky too! ;) For the last several years, over the winter, at the point the water temp drops into the mid 50s F, I take out the SWCG, do one...

All I got a new IntelliFlo i1 pump as part of a pool remodel. I had some initial issues which Jim R helped me work through in this thread. That highlighted some SWCG issues... that I've just fixed with the help of several folks in this thread. Posting those links as they contain some...

Hi TFP Gurus I'm looking for advice on my IC40 - I've read some of the threads in this part of the forum and edumakated myself a bit, but have some specific "advice to me" questions that I'd love to get some opinions on from folks who've been there and done that! Background: Previous owner put...

Friends This post starts with a confession; My name's Matt. I'm an overconfident engineer and I broke my pool automation! :( We've just finished a pool remodel (old plaster to new stonescapes). We're a month in and so I've just got to the point where the cleaner is back in the pool, salt is...

Hi Folks I have the following equipment set up: Pentair Intellichlor IC40 SWCG, Century A.O. Smith B984 Dual speed 2 HP pump motor powering Pentair Whisperflo pump Century A.O. Smith B625 3/4 HP pump motor powering goodness knows what booster pump that's hooked up to the Polaris 280 pressure...

Hi Folks I got back from vacation last night to find out my pump bit the dust while I was away. Any advice on new pumps warmly welcomed in this thread here (#ShamelessPlug) ;) We'd been on the road for about 27 hours by the time we got home yesterday so all I did on realizing the pump was dead...

Hi folks I got back from vacation yesterday to find out that my old Century A.O. Smith B855 2 HP pump motor had made its way to the big 'ole pump-motor home in the sky. Completely dead! Like many of the others who post here I have done some reading and understand that when such a...

Hi TFP team. We moved into our current place about 18 months ago and inherited a 27k gal in-ground pool. We upgraded the filter and converted it to salt water. Both may have been a mistake, at least in the short term. The pool is coming up on 10 years old next summer and, as a pool rookie I...

Hi Folks I became a TFP convert on the first pool I owned. I moved away from that house 4 years ago and haven't have a pool until recently moving again. The place we have just moved into has a great pool! It's big, all be it a little older, we're enjoying it as a family and it's brought me...

... OK not really, it's 74F, but that's what the equipment is reading! :? Intellitouch i5 system with an all Pentair supporting cast including MasterTemp heater. I noticed a few weeks ago that the water temp sensor would intermittently indicate the pool was boiling and thought nothing of it...

My pump's 18months old (Pentair WhisperFlo 2HP) and it's dead. I'm no plumber but can work the electrics. My handy-dandy multimeter tells me that the pump is receiving the correct voltage but all it does is hums and occasionally clicks. It doesn't pump water. :( I'm going to get Pentair out...

Folks I'm 18 months in to my new pool and have watched the CH rise from just over 400 (14 months ago) up to today's high of 620. I believe it's time to partially drain and refill. That being the case I have three questions which I could do with a few pointers on: :?: My CH is 620 now and my...

Folks I have been a BBB convertee for the majority of last season and, being in Texas, have kept my pool open over the winter with no problems (though it took me about 2 months to realize that my SWCG does not produce chlorine below 59F :oops: ). Despite the fact that it's 45F in the pool right...

Folks - I am a TFT100 user for a good 6 months now. I love almost all of it but often struggle with the small size and slight color differences of the included pH test (Sorry dave! :-D ) I have been using the Pentair 752 kit that came from my PB. I'm running out of both the #2 and #4 reagents...

Folks I have the Pentair Intellitouch control system with a Pentair whiperflow main pump and Pentair booster pump for the cleaner. I recently adjusted the timer to take the daily running time down from 10 hours to 6. Since then the pumps are intermittently shutting off for about a minute at...

Howdy folks I’m coming to the end of my first rookie pool season and have racked up a few questions. Apologies for posting in one thread if they all should be in different forums! Question 1 Now that it’s getting colder and my chlorine use has radically dropped I want to reduce my pump...

All Over the last week I have noticed some small rust brown stains on/in the plaster of my pool. The plaster is dark, so the stains are not easy to see and the plaster is less than a year old, so is still changing slightly itself. The stains are tiny, less than 1/4" in diameter, round and rust...

Folks I've got a new SWCG pool that's coming up on requiring it's first shock for Combined Chlorine (No Algae) I have read in other posts that the superchlorinate function of the SWCGs can reduce the effective lifespan of the cell and that it may just be best to hit the pool with regular bleach...

Folks, this is my first post on the HW side of forums. It's been all chemicals and numbers to this point.... I feel I've learnt a whole heap of stuff from the chemistry buffs out there but now need some advice on a small equipment issue I have. When my pool was finished, back in March, my pb...

Trying to stay half a step ahead of the game; I was wondering what to do as the pool cools off this fall and winter. I'm in TX so I'm not going to close it but have noticed that as the pool temp falls my balanced numbers now: pH 7.5 FC 5 CC 0 TC 5 TA 90 CH 340 CYA 40-50 Salt 4400 Temp...

I made a bit of a mathamalogical error in my salt/bags/weight/volume calculation and as opposed to topping my salt levels off at 3500ppm I nuked it to 4400ppm :shock: :oops: I know it will gradually come back down on it's own but what damage am I doing in the mean time? FC 5.5 CC 0 Ph 7.5...

Folks As a result of reading chemgeek's FC/CYA sticky I feel that I have to raise my FC from the usual 2ppm up into the 5-7 range. Reading that people had issues maintaining higher levels of chlorine especially in sunnier climates (I'm in North Texas) I jacked up my SWCG fairly high thinking...

Because of significant scale issues I have to drain and acid wash my new (5 months old) pool. In short; After all of the cash & effort that has gone into completing it, I am terrified that when emptied it will pop out of the ground and be rendered useless. (~$25k to repair a popped pool)...

Folks First post on this forum, apologies if the details, terminology or etiquette are not spot on. No offense is intended! :) I have a scale issue, a big one. History skip this if you are easily bored My pb completed and filled my pool back in March. When the pool was full I called them...