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My Intellichlor is connected to the Pentair Easy Touch controller. It will allow me to set any percentage that I choose. I suppose that, for manual units, the chlorine production below 20% is controlled by run time which is controlled by your pump run time. By the way, the Intellichlor manual...

There are many reports of Intellichlor SWG low salt readings here in the forums. You should get some good salt test strips and confirm your salt content before adding any more to your pool. Too much salt can cause more problems than not enough. The Intellichlor can be re-calibrated if...

Re: May I ask for Prayers? Casey, The Lord works miracles every day. My family and I will add your entire family to our prayer list. May all of you feel the peace that comes from God holding you in his loving arms. Jim

Believe it or not olive oil will remove adhesive residue. I've used it on metal, glass and plastic. It may work for you too if your tile is not too porous. All natural too.

Hmmm. I would have thought that the pool builder had done that. I gave it a go and sure enough air did escape. It's a little better but still not right. The pipe that leads from the filter to the heater is the one that dances most. Something else must be going on.

My sand filter developed a leak and was recently replaced. This new one jerks and shudders a great deal. Much more vibration than I remember with the old one. I thought that the water flow through the filter and pipe should be pretty smooth. Am I seeing something normal? Does anyone have...

This isn't an answer to your baking soda question. I'll admit that I have not read all of your thread so I won't step into that conversation but I do have a question for you. Is your CH still at 80 ppm? I know that you have a painted pool and that you don't need to worry about low calcium...

Once your intellichlor has been running for a few days post back here and let us know if it thinks your salt level is close to the level that you get when you test with a strip. There have been a number of posts about the newer IC-40 and variable salt readings. I suppose that we mostly hear...

My IC-40 shows low salt too. It varies between 2700 ppm and 2900 ppm frequently and for no reason that I can detect. The strips say that my salt is 3600 ppm and are very consistent. I have my unit set on 10% with 12 hour per day run time and it easily maintains 4 to 5 ppm FC depending on...

Hello and welcome to TFP. The fault codes are in your user manual. Here's a link for a PDF version of the manual from Pentair. The codes are on page 57. http://www.pentairpool.com/pdfs/EasyTouchSystemUG.pdf Your 146 is really three different faults 1 and 4 and 6. Let us know how it goes...

Wonderful news! I hope that you now have your new test kit too. You are well on your way to a Trouble Free Pool season!

So, what was your salt reading last year? Is the new bottle of strips close to what you expected the salt level to be? If your chlorine is only 2.0 ppm, what % is your SWG set on? There have been a number of us reporting that their fairly new intellichlor units show low salt when the test...

Get the IC-40. It may cost a bit more but it won't have to work as hard to keep your pool chlorinated. That means possible longer cell life.

Information that come with my intellchlor IC-40 says that the warranty is for three years. Just so that you know, my unit changes from 2700 ppm to 2900 ppm for no discernible reason. It may change several times per day or stay constant for a week or more. I quit worrying about it. After all...

Glad to hear that your water is in balance. If you are still having problems, your IC-40 does need to be replaced. Have you talked with Pentair directly or just the builder that installed your unit? Pentair is pretty easy to deal with, as a couple of others have said, they will ship a new...

Test from last night. FC-5 CC-0 PH-7.7 (just a bit on the pink side of 7.6) TA-70 CH-250 CYA-70 Salt-3590 Pentair says that the intellichlor IC-40 will cause PH to stabilize around 7.8 and I guess they are right. Seems like everyone here recommends adding muriatic acid when PH gets to 7.8...

We're here on the Coastal Plain of South Carolina so the ground around the pool is almost perfectly level. I'm afraid that the deep end has in fact floated about 24 inches out of the ground. I can't explain the water level matching the tile line except to say that it must be an optical...

You've made the right decision in order to claim control of your pool. Just remember that the test kit does not include the AquaChek salt test strips. They must be ordered separately. If you decide to order the TF-100 kit, they also carry the test strips. Shipping is fast, you will probably...

I asked about your TA because I suspect that the test result from Leslie's may be in error. I don't think that TA increases on its own, only when you add a chemical to increase it or add water from a source that has high TA. If you have only put in half of the recommended amount of alkalinity...

You're welcome. Please add a post to this thread and let us know how things work out with Pentair. Now, how do you think that your TA got so high so fast? What have you been putting into your pool?

The most prudent thing to do is insist on warranty service since your unit is only one year old. If Leslie's is right, the salt level is just a bit low but not enough to really worry about at this point. It is in the range that the intellichlor should think that the level is good. Your water...

Your intellichlor may well not be producing any chlorine. Do you have a test kit and salt test strips? It would be helpful if you could post a full set of numbers. Someone here might see something that would help. Most people here have the TF-100 test kit or the Taylor K-2006 test kits and...

Here are the pictures. Looks like the owner put up a small fence to remove temptation to crawl under the pool.

Like so many good things in life, my name was given to me by my wife. Every year she buys season tickets to the little theater here in our small town and I never know which night she's scheduled for us to attend the play. I come home from work late just ready to sit, relax and have a quiet...

Sorry Casey, I should have subscribed to this post. I just happened across it again today. I'll try to get some pictures next week and put them up here in this post. Jim

Thanks Jason, I only wanted to know if it was possible and a very rough idea on costs. It's a shame, it was a beautiful pool.

One of my agents in our real estate office has listed a home with an in-ground concrete pool. This pool must have been built with the decking as a continuous part of the pool. Looks like several years ago, the deep end of the pool floated out of the ground with the surrounding deck still...

There are two or three other posts here in the Salt Water Chlorine Generators section that you should read. You are not alone. First, how old is your SWG? If it has some age on it, it may be giving up the ghost and if you are lucky you may be able to get a warranty replacement if it's less...

Thanks for the report Pisces. Looks like Pentair doesn't mind field calibrating their swg. They may even expect it to be done by installers at first use. I wonder why they don't talk about it and make the information easier to find. At any rate, I think that a calibration is coming to my...

I've been running my pump 24/7 for a while now. I have my swg set at 10% to keep my free chlorine level pretty constant. I've decided that I'd like to try to cut back on the pump time. Since the display shows output as the percentage of time that chlorine is being produced per hour of pump...