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    My Pentair Warrior SI stopped working!!!

    Hi, We purchased our Warrior SI from Marina pool almost 3 years ago and now it stopped working. Basically, it worked back and forth for a little bit and then stopped running. We installed this Prowler app to our phone to remotely run the robot and when we looked into the app, it displayed...
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    My Pentair Intelliflo VS pump not running while in Auto mode

    My pump stops running when it’s in Auto mode although everything seems to be up when I check my Easy Touch. I tried to reset with the breaker and it eventually started but then stopped after a few mins running. But then when I turn to Service mode, I can manually start the pump without any...
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    Recommendation on how long and speed of pool pump

    Hi, I have Pentair VSP and I have been running for years at highest speed for 12 hours a day. I have also read somewhere that you can run at low pump, maybe at 1000 ppm. Is that right? With electricity cost nowadays, I hope I can save a few bucks here and there. What is your recommendation...
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    Is it normal to lose chlorine 2-3 ppm overnight?

    Hi, I want to give a quick background on my situation here. Last week we got algae outbreak with high CYA, drained the water, and managed to bring down CYA to 50. I have followed the SLAM process and thankfully I have never seen my water being this crystal blue clear since we have the pool...
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    Please help on what to do to balance water after algae outbreak

    Hi, After owning the pool for several years, I thought I know it all but apparently I got things wrong. Long story short, we've been having out of control algae due to very high CYA (129) so we did as suggested by replace more than half of our pool water with fresh water and shock while doing...
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    Found algae built up in Whisperflo …. Please help

    We have Pentair Whisperflo which is mainly used for the waterfall. We usually have it run 15 minutes weekly up until we had our freeze back in February. Since then, we have minor leak with the pump so we only run it for waterfall only when we need to, not weekly anymore. Today, I found algae...
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    Urgent - Please advice on how to bypass the filtration temporary?

    Hi, I am currently waiting for the new clamp for my Pentair Clean and Clear Plus filter because our current is bad, hence we couldn’t tighten it at the moment. The new part won’t arrive here until Tuesday. Meanwhile, can I bypass the filter to run the pump so the water can be circulated? If...
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    Pentair Whisperflo frozen ... found crack

    Hi, I noticed there is another post with similar situation where my Pentair Whisperflo frozen during Texas freeze and now I find some cracks on my pump. See the attached images. Im trying to apply epoxy along these cracks and am waiting for it to cure to see if that would work. I also...
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    Urgent help due to crack!!

    I need urgent help as we just went through some horrible hard freeze due to extreme winter storm (for us Texas here it is). We found crack here and been losing water in our pool. Does anyone know what this is called? Particularly the top part? I want to know so I can call store to see if...
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    My Pentair Boost-Rite booster pump is making noise

    Here is a link to my video so you can hear the grinding sound that it is making. It just started doing this for the last few days. The pump still works. The cleaner runs normally, but it just makes this awful noise. I did some research so far but just want to confirm whether it's a sign of...
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    Dead Pentair CVA-24 Valve Actuator

    Hi, I need some help on how to determine if the actuator is bad. When the pool is on and off, the valve is not responding, hence not turning at all. Initially, I thought the switches are bad but when I tested by switching the manual on the back up and down, I can see the switches turn and stop...
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    Elevated spa drains to pool level when pump is off and pool jet is not working

    Hi, I've been having this pool for a few years now and this is very first time I have experienced somewhat major issue. A few days ago, I noticed the water in our elevated spa has drained to the pool water level. After spending a few hours googling and went through this forum, I have tried...
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    Should I SLAM after each heavy swimming?

    Hi, So we had a big party over the weekend with heavy swimming of 15 kids. I added extra 2-3 ppm of liquid chlorine right before the party and a little right after. My current FC reading is at 8 ppm which is slightly above the Target FC (7 ppm) and TC level is always at 0 ppm. Long story...
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    Please help!!! No chlorine presents in the pool

    Please help me as I don't know what to do to get the reading of chlorine in my new pool. It is about 24,000 gallon pool and no matter how much I shock, no chlorine shows up in the test. I even brought to Leslie for water testing and everything are great except zero in both FC and TC. The...
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    Quotes from 2 different bidders - please help!!!

    Hi, I'm looking to build a pool in the next few months and I got 2 bidders so far with two different options. Both gave me good reasons so I don't know what option I should go. Please advise. PB A: 1 HP traditional pump for pool 1.5 HP booster pump for spa (8 jets) Separate pump for water...