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Main source of drips is coming out from under one of the clamps. It's about 1" from the edge of the clamp. Water drips from the bottom (gravity and all). I live in Northern CA where it does get below freezing at night, but pools are not "Closed" for the winter. In the winter, I run the...

Opened up the filter yesterday. Didn't see anything strange. O-ring feels like it could be new. Cleaned O-ring mating surfaces with water and my finger, but they felt clean. Re-seated the media cartridge. Mixed up clamps. Turned clamps over so that writing was right-side-up instead of...

not sure why salt is chronically low. I think part of it is a difference of opinion on a target. I was thinking 3400 ppm was recommended. They target 2800 ppm, probably because extra bags cost them a few dollars more. I think part of it is that they think one bag will raise the ppm more than...

Sorry. Sta-Rite from 2009. Yes, maybe I should meet him at pool. thanks for advice.

lol My pool seems to require a lot of salt. They seem to add a bag every couple of months, and I'm always pointing out to them that it's low. So I asked where is the salt going. I think I found the real answer was that the float valve on the auto-fill was somewhat broken, so the pool level...

Yes, that's my filter. good find.

I just received this email from my pool service company: Hi Derek, The filter is leaking pretty bad and yes we already replaced the o-ring but still leaks. We should install a new filter. Please let me know. cost is $1200 installed. My filter is black, with about 6 different hand-tighten...

Thanks Mas, What happens if the release valve does not stay closed? I get air in the system? but then I'd see air bubbles coming out of the output jets, right?

I do care about how well the pool heats up, but I thought that flow rate had little to do with the heat transfer. I thought if I had 3 times the flow, the water would heat up one third as much on its way through for an equal amount of heat added to the pool. Is that not true?

I want to use the least amount of energy to use the solar heat for the entire day. I have a brand new Intelliflo VS hooked up to a Zodiac iAqualink. The solar is split into two levels, the peak of the top level is about 30 feet off of the water, while the peak of the lower level is about 20...

Thanks Shake. I thought I had read somewhere to direct connect and let the controller power the pump down, but maybe that was for the Pentair controller or for the standalone Zodiac controller. good to know that it's installed properly. Derek

As someone just mentioned to me in a different thread: The Intellifo yellow wire goes to the black terminal on the Jandy RS485, while the green wire goes to the yellow terminal. In low voltage DC, if red is power, black is usually ground. Jandy didn't go this route, and instead used the high...

In related news, the pump is still powered by the filter relay rather than being directly connected to the breaker. What are the advantages/disadvantages of a direct connection rather than using the relay? thanks, Derek

Yes that works. Connect yellow to black and green to yellow, and everything works wonderfully. thanks, Derek

I can't get my Intellifo VS to talk to the iAqualink. I just had an Intelliflo VS installed and a Zodiac iAqualink running rev R software. The pump replaced a constant speed pump on the filter relay. As such, it works as a constant speed pump. I attached the two wire control to one of the...