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    Noob question, what are these?

    No water features or that I know of? There is a 'spa' area in the pool that you can turn jets on that come out of 4 eyeballs, then a seperate remote can make heaps of water bubbles/turbulance that come out from at least 50 little holes made between the tiles in that same spa area
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    Noob question, what are these?

    Here is the only above ground plumbing in the pump shed
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    Noob question, what are these?

    I know theres the main drain that must connect to the skimmer line. But what are these are five suction inlets for? I have spa pump/jets and solar heating, is that what they're for?
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    High sand filter pressure

    It's an onga ppp1500, 1.5hp pump. 50mm piping in, 40mm piping to the sand filter
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    High sand filter pressure

    As an update. Iv installed a new pentair rotor/spider gasket. Not leaking out of the waste pipe anymore. Pressure still high, no change ?
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    High sand filter pressure

    I put it out to the sewer. I attach a flexible 40mm vinyl/firehose to the waste pipe. It's approx 10m long? Interesting, I get pressure of about 80kpa when back washing too
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    High sand filter pressure

    Wo Would there be any residual pressure still since the pump pushing the water somewhere, even if it is to waste? I did a search and cant find anywhere on the net if there should or shouldn't be pressure when wasting water Also it does leak water out the backwash/waste pipe when it is on the...
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    High sand filter pressure

    I'm pretty sure when I backwash it sits about 70-80kpa. So again lower pressure than when filtering
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    High sand filter pressure

    I'm concerned as its sitting at 14.5-15psi as normal now when I know I saw the gauge sitting about 10psi when I moved in
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    High sand filter pressure

    It's a brand new gauge, both the old one and new gauge one zero when pump turns off. Gauge works Internal leak meaning rotor/spider gasket is busted?
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    High sand filter pressure

    I have some high sand filter pressure issues. I've recently moved to this house which has a pool. I believe when I first saw the gauge on the sand filter three months ago it sat about 70kpa (10psi) For some reason now it is about 100kpa, photo below shows 110kpa as I added some DE to the...
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    Hello from Australia!

    Hello everyone! Im based in Australia, Adelaide. Our new house we bought two months ago has a pool! I have never owned one and this was the only thing playing on my mind whether or not to get the place... but here we are! I like knowing how everything works so I have been doing ALOT of time...
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