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I bought some vitamin C today and held some of the tablets against a few spots as well as rubbed some tablets on the spots. No changes to the spots. I did notice some of the spots seem to be in very slightly pitted areas. What should I do next?

I will certainly try that. I would jump in now if I had a vitamin C tab and it was not rumbling in the sky overhead. I considered trying this and even had a bottle of vitamin C in my hand two weeks ago but I don't know where the iron would come from. I only use my city water to fill and...

First off the numbers. I test chlorine/PH every couple days to see when the next cup of acid needs to go in. I test the water monthly with my kit and visit the pool store every weekend or two. These are the numbers from today. They are very close to what I usually have. The only number that has...

Thanks! We have continued to work on our backyard paradise. The dirt is now sodded and it has grown in very nicely and looks like it has been there for years. We have planted flowers in the three planters we had built-in. We have also added some Talavera pottery around the pool. Sound system is...

New pool build in Viera, FL. Pools done!! We still need to get some sod down and landscaping but the pool is complete and has been in use since last Friday.

it has been awhile since I added any photos. Today was plaster day. Tomorrow is start-up day and we are very excited.

Here is what I am doing. I am almost done with the final install of the full system. My deck is 36’ x 36’ facing North from the house with a free form pool in the middle. The southeast corner is a 12 x 14 covered patio. My yard is fenced in with a 6’ shadowbox fence that is 3’ from the west...

The 300 feet of 12 gauge wire came in this week from monoprice and it was a beautiful day down here in central east Florida. The builder has mostly formed the deck so I decided to lay everything out and see how it sounded. My PVC conduit I cut and glued in the garage was within inches of where I...

I have two pygmy date palms in my sideyard and the thorns are vicious. I have stuck myself a few times while carefully trying to get some weeds that were growing under them. I could not imagine the pain of falling into one.

I was surprised but they said they always do it that way. The initial backfill was pretty thorough with water jets soaking the ground followed by a compacting machine the next day. Then they dug just deep enough for the plumbing. This way the plumbing lays on compacted earth and does not settle...

Not much happened last week for picture taking. They backfilled, dug it up again for the plumbing, and filled it back. Today they started on the tiles and it finally has some color instead of a big concrete bowl. We might have a deck by the end of the week if they can get the survey and...

I have all the pieces and decided to hook it all up last night. It was a HP netbook, Syba USB soundcard with spdif output, Onkyo HTR-530, Outdoor Speaker Depot 1 set of AP520s and 3 sets of RX540. I have a volume control but did not use it. I wired it series / parallel using 16 gauge wire that...

I have all the pieces and decided to hook it all up last night. It was a HP netbook, Syba USB soundcard with spdif output, Onkyo HTR-530, Outdoor Speaker Depot 1 set of AP520s and 3 sets of RX540. I have a volume control but did not use it. I wired it series / parallel using 16 gauge wire that...

Speakers are from outdoor speaker depot. 3 pairs of RX540 rock speakers, 2 each on west, north, and east side. 1 pair of AP520 which will hang from the eaves of our house. I hope it sounds good. I'll know by the end of the week.

I read quite a bit about raspberry pi and it may be a future project of mine. I've pretty much finalized my pool's sound system. I have an HP Mini Netbook that was not really being used. 140GB of space available and can be expanded with flash memory or external hard drives. It will output...

How it looked at the end of last week. And then all torn up again to run the plumbing. They might get the deck poured this week but more likely the start of next week.

I stripped two 25' pieces of cat5 out of the sheath, separated the wires into 8 twisted pairs and rolled them up, realigned one end of the wires so I could twist them (not braid like some people I read about, that would suck!), tied them to the handle of a solid object, rolled out the wires...

You did give a few things to go read about but I'm confused as to how someone would be inundated with one channel. A speaker on the left channel will have speakers on the right channel adjacent to it and a speaker on the right channel would have speakers on the left channel adjacent to it...

The cat5 cable was interesting. I built one and it was a PITA so I decided one was enough and I was out nothing but my time. My reading on the interent is that they make amazing speaker cables. I'm still undecided between 14 or 16 gauge. I'll likely go with 14 gauge for future expansion. One day...

I like the idea of underwater speakers. The pool is surrounded by a 6' fence. 8 speakers surrounding the area will help create a more even sound field than having some on just two sides. The music is really for the background anyways. With cars, dogs, lawnmowers, etc I'm not trying to create an...

I really want the sound to be level across the pool and deck. This is why we are going with 8 speakers. I don’t want to increase the volume on the speakers on one side of the area in order for people on the other side to hear it. With 8 speakers spaced about 15’ apart and alternating left and...

I always say Bose slogan should be better sound through marketing. I almost bought some 901s 23 years ago. I am definitely not a Bose fan. I did hear there omni directional speakers last year and thought they sounded good. We were just starting to kick around the pool idea. Then the guy told me...

Thanks to everyone that posted. I appreciate everyone’s input. I have ordered 3 sets of RX540 rock speakers and one set of AP520 patio speakers from outdoorspeakerdepot. I bought, cut, and ran fishing line through ½” PVC pipe as well so it is ready once the pool is done and I can get out there...

We have a pool shell!! and a spa backfilling in progress the day after shooting the tank.

UnderWaterVanya, Thanks for the wiring suggestions and diagrams. I think I am going to keep it simple like you diagrammed instead of trying to figure out a series / parallel wiring circuit and then wire speakers around the 40 x 40 deck. It's really just music for around the pool. I really need...

I have heard those Bose and I liked the sound of them but at alomst $500 after tax, they are not in this design. two years from now, maybe. I have considered TICs and OSDs omni directional speakers. I want to keep the sound down but covering the area. I don't want to be that asshat neighbor...

DECK is 36 x 36. I forgot to include that on the drawing. Picasso I am not :) I need to get prepped to put down the conduit for the pool speakers. Our house faces south and the pool is in the backyard. I initially planned on putting two speakers under the eaves (1,2) and two rocks on the...

Ready for inspection and shooting the tank. Concrete should be Tuesday and of course it is supposed to rain.

Wow, so many choices to consider now. The old iPhone I have is a 3g and most apps I'm finding want at least a 3gs with 4.3 iOS. Probably doesn't matter anyway since i was goofing around with redsn0w and the phone is now stuck in a loop of recovery and I managed to kill bluetooth, wifi, and...

I worked an overnight shift last night and was way too wired from caffeine when I got home so I loaded it on my wife’s iPad and a netbook I may use to hold the music. Setup was very easy and I was controlling the netbook within 5 minutes. I think since the screen sizes are similar it was pretty...