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I did a homegrown contraption a few years ago that connected some tubing into a return that I hooked up in a waterfall like arrangement. It worked okay but was pretty janky as a method to get the PH back up through aeration. Needed to reduce TA from 100 to 60-70 before I add borates to my pool...

I test my FC several times a week. I do the full titration test every couple of weeks. A month ago I had CYA of 50 and 4000 salt. Today I have 30 cya and 4000 salt. I can't imagine I have a leak (I use a water alarm called flume to alert me for leaks and I have seen nothing that can explain...

Hi all, Just replaced my SWG cell a week ago and my FC is a bit high as I'm being figuring out how to set it for my pool (moved from a ic-40 to an ic-60. My water is excellent, super clear and no issues at all. FC 10 PH 7.7 TA 100 CH 425 CYA 50 (I think it's actually closer to 60 I had to...

Hi all, My vsp pump had a connection via the control wire to intellitouch. It's somewhat intermittent. When it works, it works great. But sometimes it stops working and I got jiggle the connection on the pump side to get it to work again. When it doesn't work intellitouch says no comms on the...

This may be a dumb question but it keeps bugging me. When my pump is off the lights on the chlorinator is still lit. It is obviously not producing chlorine, but the device is powered. I have the loadcenter integration. I vaguely remember that when it was installed that the LED's on the...

I have a 42000 gallon pool with an SWG. I estimated it by measuring but so far the poolmath apps prediction on effects of adding has been spot on, leading me to believe the pool is really 42,000 gallon. I'm considering adding borates. Using the poolmath app it suggests that I should add about...

I have pentair 500W bulbs in my pool. 3 in the pool and 1 in the spa. at 35c/kw going up to 40c soon i'm moving all my lights in my home to LED and overall getting energy efficient appliances. I got a quote from the local pool company for replacing my incandescent bulbs with intellibrite 5G...

My Taylor salt test tells me I have 3400ppm salt in my pool. My IC40 cell tells me I'm a bit lower, 3050. I'm sure this is within the margin of error for the cell and not something broken. Should I put in another 200-300ppm of salt in the pool to make sure the IC40 red/green lights don't flash...

This q is a bit off the left field..? I got a new dishwasher. It has a built-in water softener function. The manual states that I should program the incoming water hardness into the dishwasher (expressed as °E) and it will adjust the water softener for my water. My water company has a report...

Hi all, i was out for a while over christmas and my pool ph got a bit high while the ph got too low (the SWG shutdown due to cold water) . I added liquid chlorine and got the FC to 6 which i'm happy with. However, i was a bit braindead and added 0.5 gallons too much muriatic acid. My PH is 7.0...

Hi all, We had a power outage when the atmospheric river hit the SF bay area two weeks ago. Since then I noticed that the pump was running in odd hours. I checked it out today and the time is seriously off. I first power cycled easytouch and then updated the time settings using slconfig on an...

This is my playlist. European beach club vibe is what I went for. Borrowed a few ideas from another playlist but made it my own in end. Enjoy! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/486xWQEz0ttxrNChVKIzza?si=fEyk-hajSfeNI3J95DVtJg&utm_source=copy-link&dl_branch=1

My PH has been raising pretty quickly so i decided to lower my TA. When i started i had TA of 160 and a PH of 8.1. I added muratic acid in my pool until PH reached 7.0. I did this in increments, ran the pump and tested again (my journey was 7.7, 7.4, 7.0 over two days). I was worried about...

I have had my Polaris 965IQ robot for about a month. I'm very happy with it. It replaced a pressure side Polaris 280 that was years old but well maintained. I thought my Polaris 965 did a good job of cleaning, it looked really clean to me and far better than what my 280 could do. But someone on...

I have a charitable account managed by my money manager. I wanted to donate to to tfp but I need to know the tax exempt organizations name as registered with the IRS or the EIN number to make a donation through that system. Does anyone have that information? I need the type of information that...

I'm thinking about adding some solar pool heaters. I have a shower/changing room/bathroom with an outdoor kitchen close to my pool. My pool equipment sits behind the changing/shower room. The roof is flat up on top of the changing room. I'm thinking it would be a nice place to put some solar...

Hi all, I have a pentair easy touch 8 pool automation system. It was installed by the previous homeowner. Thanks to this forum I'm doing most of the work for the pool myself. On Friday I was unable to use the screen logic app in my cell phone to turn on the pool lights. I spent a few hours on...

Just bought a house with a pool. Never had a pool before. Took a look at the pool cleaner and realized it was completely worn out. It ran in only one wheel, the rubber on the rims was almost worn out. Check out the tail below, it's worn down until two holes opened up due to the material wearing...

Hi, Brand new pool owner here. I don't know how old the pool is. There are some stains on the tile just above the waterline in the pool. Whitish and feels a bit like sand paper. Any idea on how to identify it, and a remedy to remove it? Picture is from the spa, it's built-in at one end of the...

Hi all, I just got my tf1000 test kit. I think I did every test correctly. The water temperature recorded using a science temp probe of the sample water. What do you think of these results and how I should interprete them? Do the result look reasonable to you? Btw I used the poolmath app...

So i get the point about testing pool chemistry. This question came about after i was calculating Motor RPM, GPH flow to the pool and how much i should run the pump daily. My question is, is there a test that can be done that tests the water for if i have run the pump long enough to filter the...

My goal is to do the maintenance myself. I don't know what equipment i have but i figure that i'll post the pictures of the equipment here and maybe you guys can tell me what it is. I'm decent with electrical and computers (i make my living that way) but never had anything to do with a pool...

As of April 1st I am a new pool owner. It came with the house I just purchased. To be honest, having a pool wasn't a requirement for us, we loved the house and it came with a pool. So I am in learning more about pools, I've never had one or been near them growing up (I grew up in the snow). So...