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I only use Leslies as a comparison. The pool service takes care of the pool since I'm only at the property on an intermittent basis. I'll track them down today and find out what's been going on. Still doesn't explain why the chlorinator is reporting so high.

I just got to my pool in SW Florida. 4 weeks ago it was broadly fine, although the salt was low. According to Leslie's it was around 2800ppm. I cleaned my Intellichlor. My pool service, who are generally very good, added a couple of bags of salt and said the chlorine was high, so knock the...

Interesting, seems like I need a Costco trip to pick some up. I'll provide an update on my progress.

After Hurricane Ian collapsed my pool enclosure into my pool, I have a few small spots on the bottom of the pool caused by rust. They're not serious, but they annoy me. My pool guy says he can remove them by pouring HCl onto them through a pipe. Not sure how he would do that in the deep end...

This post is a writeup of a recent repair that I made to a Pentair MicroBrite Color LED light. If you own these lights, you know that they give out excellent light but are very expensive ($400+) for what they are. So when they go bad and are out of warranty (or you didn’t qualify for warranty...

I asked this question about a year ago (Running 2 heat sources simultaneously), and realized that I omitted to give an update. My pool is in Florida and in the winter months I thought is would be handy to be able to run both the rooftop solar and the heater at the same time. My Intellitouch...

Closing this thread, since I fixed the problem. It turned out that I had a series of issues which appear to have started from my RS-485 USB device used by nodejs-poolController. This resulted in a failed RS-485 chip on my indoor control panel, and at least one failed chip (there are two) on my...

Not sure if this is allowed, however I mistakenly bought a white microbrite instead of a color one and can't return it since I opened the packaging. 100' cord. If anyone needs one, message me directly.

Thanks! I have sent a message

It appears that an electrical issue has affected my control board's ability to communicate with both my ICP and my nodejs-poolController. Somehow my RS-485 USB adapter developed a short between D+ and D- and now there is no communication between the ICP and the board, even after disconnecting...

This system is only 8 years old! It would be preferable to just be able to control everything independently and then put programming over the top. Too expensive to upgrade just for this small need, though.

I will look at that. Valve A is hardcoded to Solar, so I would have to move the actuator to Valve B. I'm not familiar with feature circuits, so will have to do some digging.

I just did this and I'm getting much warmer water. It's annoying there's no way to automate this. On the controller I have 4 speeds set for the pump, so I run the solar at a higher speed than the pool. So I've had to increase the pump speed, set heating to Heater and manually switch the...

I have a basic setup - an Intellitouch i5+3, with an Aquacal heat pump heater (wired as a gas heater) and a solar array (simply activated by a valve that turns). I would like to try and boost the heating and run both the solar array and the heater at the same time. The panel only lets me...

Nothing really to add, apart from the fact that I have a salt pool in SW Florida which gets baked for months on end. I've never had a problem with it in the 5 years I've owned it. Once you get the SWG up and running and get on top of the acid, I bet you'll be fine. My pool is truly "troublefree"!

I have 4 of these lights and they have been replaced multiple times. I was able to repair two of them recently by simply replacing the LEDs. The LED chips are about $4 each from Digikey, but they are very fiddly to replace and you need a hot air pencil to do it. My other two have circuit...

So it sounds like I would need to keep the booster pump but could, if the flow rates can be achieved, combine waterfall and filter pump into one unit. Right now, the waterfall does not go through the filters. It pulls from a larger inlet than the skimmers and main drains, runs through the 3HP...

I'm looking for some insight on how to best use an Intelliflo pump. I'm not clear how the programmable features on the pump work, for the simple reason that I can't visualize the required plumbing. My current pool, which I think is around 35k gallons, has 3 skimmers, a waterfall and a Polaris...