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i use (or used to) them at the beginning of the season when i need to ramp up the CYA in conjunction with the bleach. it did take long, but it was ok - i would use less bleach and it would work on my CYA. what's the idea behind saving them for vacation? bc swcg raises the PH and trichlor...

Hi! I'm starting this season with an SWCG. I used to have an inline chorinator that I used to bump my CYA, now that spot is taken by the SWCH cell. I have a good amount of pucks left that I want to use up to bring my CYA up. I have an option to drop them into the skimmer, but it seems like SWCG...

thank you!

I recently received new RJ60 system and I notice some irregularities on the electrode surface. They are not uniform grey, there are covered in spots that seems like oxidation - browning, greenish spots. I'm attaching a pic, but it's a bit hard to see since the cell itself is quite shiny I...

not exactly. CYA raises much faster with trichlor use compared to CH with cal hypo. and the range is much tighter for CYA, compared to CH.

so the pool season is starting somewhat soon for my region, and i started looking for chlorinating agents. typically i used trichlor to bring up my CYA to desired level and then bleach and cal hypo based on what is cheaper. the prices for chlorine went thru the roof last season and this one is...

Does anyone in Eastern/Central Mass happen to have this kind of PVC union? My plumbing around the filter/pump is done using those unions. I think they originally came from HD. I can't find them anywhere anymore and anything I find has different socket size/threading. I have a few plug and play...

no, not mentioning of $1600

The store didn't get enough of my regular -50F RV antifreeze, so I got a couple more bottles of -100F RV antifreeze. The ingredients are the same, so I assume it's safe to mix and use. But I'm wondering if it would translate into 1:2 ratio. Meaning, can I make 2 gallons of -50F antifreeze...

update on my situation. the installer came in with the same expert as last time, but this time to fix the wrinkles. they struggled for a bit and told me there was to much water to effectively do anything. ironically when he tried to fix them first time there was very little water and the...

it might be my area, but the cheapest liner change i found was $5100, with prices above $7k not uncommon. but now i understand a little bit more about the trade offs and the price of conversation. thank you.

my installer is AWOL. i messaged him 2 weeks ago and didn't hear back. he still has 3 small problems to address (2 small wrinkly areas and one liner track tuck) and there is the whole sharp things at the deep end under the liner that he still doesn't know about. he didn't charge me $1600 for...

I recently had my liner changed. While that was not without a problem, it made me think of something. My pool is all around concrete. Concrete bottom, concrete walls. The shell is solid and aside from few hairline cracks seems almost water tight. I asked the installer if this could be...

he is local, and i would rather not spring this on him over the phone. he is going to be in the pool fixing some wrinkles anyway. i will lend him my mask if he needs one to check it out.

i talked to the manufacturer and they say stretching liner with steam while installing is ok and liner might be slightly smaller to prevent wrinkling. the installer is coming over in next few days, so i will talk to him

he measured the pool. i thought he was a little sloppy, but i hoped he knew what he was doing. i told him afterwards that i thought the size was a bit off and he said the manufacturers typically make it smaller a little to avoid wrinkles. it's not a single rock under, the whole hopper is like...

So I recently got my new liner installed. Majority of the work was done by one guy and he struggled with liner being very tight around the corners a lot. Told me before it's all about preparation and cleaning and actual liner hookup takes him half an hour. He spent half a day wrestling with it...

ok, i'm completely confused by what it was. the green pics from yesterday (greener than 2 days ago when it was originally filled), the blue is from today. still barely any chlorine consumption, nor any cloudiness from dead algae.

still not clear what is happening. finally got enough water to put DE in my filter and started filtering. added 2G of CYA and brought it over the shock level. i have a chlorinator that typically outputs about 2-3ppm per 6-8 hour pump run. with initial dose of bleach, level seem to stay put...

so i got my liner replaced and got 2 trucks worth of new water. which is about 18k for my 27k pool. the water had a very light green hue. it was pretty light green and i was thinking maybe it was just the way new liner shows. but as it filled up more and then added my own fill water now it's...

James, I'm an idiot! Somehow after testing the new and old capacitors together, I managed to grab the old dead one and install it back to the motor. And then managed to get the motor somewhat working while starting it on low speed. I went back and fixed it better this time and it runs and...

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So couple of days back I found my pump dead. I have superpump with “A.O. Smith STS1072RV1 0.75HP 230V Dual-Speed 56J Frame C-Face Motor”. See attached. I checked the large capacitor in the hump of the motor and it was dead. I ordered a new one and installed it today. Turned the switch on and...