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Hi pool was opened on Monday (by a pool company). They supposedly are to put an initial shock into the pool. The pool was overloaded with algae, even worse then green it was basically black. I let it sit overnight since the company supposedly shocked and it turned to more of a green the next...

We had an unreal storm here in the Baltimore area earlier today. I'm sure lightning hit my house directly. Little by little i'm finding things around the house that are fried. Earlier I noticed my pool equipment was off. The 2 pole 20 breaker that is in my pool sub panel was stuck between on...

I have three returns, formerly two but I had a leak under the pad so I closed off that return and turned my two polaris lines into return lines. One of those lines has bubbles coming out of it. The other two lines do not. What would cause this? It's been going on for over a week now and...

Just rec'd my TF100 yesterday and I did all of the test yesterday and then again today. Then I took a sample of my water to a pool store by my house and had the water tested. They have some sort of electronic tester that is connected to a computer. I'm getting some very different results and...

Sounds good, i've lowered the % down and will continue to run it 24/7 for a while if not for good. The note in the manual says that if you need to go below 25% to lower the cell power and raise the % back up. Since I was already on the lowest power I wasn't sure if it was a bad thing to run...

I've had my system running for a couple weeks now. Just got my TF kit in the mail today so I can start testing daily. When I started my chlorine was basically at zero. After about a week it was at approx 5ppm. (Took sample to pool store for testing). Today it's up to 7ppm. Originally I set...

FC - 4.4 TC - 4.4 CC - 0.0 PH - 7.5 Hardness - 60 Alkalinity - 85 CA - 50 Copper - .08 Saturation Index - .80 My FC was basically at 0. I added bleach and turned pool pilot on boost mode for a couple days. Now that it's inline I need to check it daily on 50% to see where things fall. Should...

Yeah once I read the manual over again I saw that I was ok. I went ahead and turned it on Boost mode because my FC is now almost zero. I also added a couple gallons of bleach. I'm still in chemical leveling mode. I've added a ton of CYA as well as baking soda and borax. Everything in my...

Ok - Here is an update. Once I ran my cleaner it mixed up the salt and my low salt issue went away BUT Now the digital is turning off and on without any errors. The purifier percentage is changing on it's own. What is going on? I setup the pump program one to run from 8:00am to 7:59am so...

Yeah I angled it like it showed in the book each one on the second to last position. There were no extra floats included.

After a ton of research I had decided to go with the Aquatic Bravo Fury. It's supposedly made by the same company and the Blue Diamond and Aquabots. I was told it's basically identical to the Blue Diamond. It looks just like a Blue Diamond. Here is a link to it...

Anyone know where this can be found? I need to add 32lbs to my pool, would rather buy the 12lb bags if I can find them. Didn't know if BJ's, Costco or Sam's carry them? I'm guessing i'm not going to find in my supermarket. I live in the Baltimore, MD area if that helps. Thanks, Vince

Jason, Thanks for the info on the signature, i've added it now. I'm going to run my Bravo Fury tonight and hopefully it will help to mix up the salt. So i'm assuming then if the Autopilot shows any amount of salt that needs to be added then it turns off the purifier?

I've had all my equipment setup for a few days now. I've had the Intelliflo in manual mode running at 45GPM and my pool has gotten very clean and clear. Last night I added 1200 lbs of water softener salt to the pool. This morning most of it seemed to be disolved. So I went ahead and...

Am I ok to use the blue bags from Home Depot to add salt for the first time? I've seen plenty threads saying the salt is ok to use but many recommend the Mortons pool salt for a start. I used the test strips and I need to add 1200 - 1300 lbs of salt. The HD salt is so much less expensive...

I'm going to give it another try after work today. I don't have a main drain and I have two intakes so I can't turn them both off. I"ll give a try turning one off and seeing what that does. Am I ok to let the pump continue to try as long as there is a little of water in the basket? Or is...

I just finished installing all my new equipment, Intelliflo Vf, Quad DE 100, Pool Pilot digital and all new 2" piping. I did all the plumbing first, then the electric. Then I took off the cover and removed the bolts (2 returns, 1 in each of 2 skimmers, 2 for booster pump. Turned on power...

I just finished up all my plumbing today and plan on doing the electrical tomorrow and then firing everything up. I was reading over the manual for the Pool Pilot and was a big confused about Bromine. Is this something I will need to use? I see it says to add so much Sodium Bromide per...

When gutting out all of my old equipment I noticed that one of the 2" connectors that came with the heater that get glued to the 2" and then the threaded nut goes over is broke. Basically there is a chunk of the plastic that is just broken off. There is still about 1/2" intact which I would...

Electrical connection for Heater I have a 400k btu Raypak heater that is currently running off the same 2 pole 20amp breaker that is in my Intermatic panel that the timers / pump / subpump are running off of. I'm changing the pump out to an Intelliflo VF and adding an Autopilot Digital DIG60...

I was reading over the manual for the Raypak. Looks as though it also has a flow meter like the Autopilot. Would it make sense to just hard wire the heater and bypass the timer altogether? Then the heater would cycle on and off as the pump came on and the flow meter did it's thing in the...

I'm not too worried about the electrical part as much as I am with this line going to the Fireman's switch. If I bypass the timers, what should I do with that wire from the fireman's switch that goes to the heater? I work for an electrical distributor and have plenty of electrician buddies...

First - Thank you to everyone that has helped me so far. I finally ordered all of my new equipment and it is starting to come in piece by piece. I took a look for the first time at what's inside my pool panel and need some help to figure out what I need to do to get everything hooked up...

I've seen them for the exact same price. Looks like the Bravo Fury is a Bravo with a little less speed and 1/2 the warranty. If this is true and the Bravo is the same as a Blue Diamond then I think this might be superior to a Aquabot Turbo. Any thoughts?

I haven't looked at automation systems at all, but what would a basic unit cost that could handle turning on the units that way that wouldn't take away any of the VF features.

Do you think I should put the "T" before or after the heater? Also I was just thinking if the pump isn't running I guess I've got no water on the slide.

seems pretty complicated. I think I may be better off trying it the way Jason mentioned. But aren't there many other people out there with an Intellflo VF and Auto Pilot? I just wonder how they all wire theirs up?

what i was trying to say was if I put a 2" "T" in the return line, I'd need to reduce the 2" down to the 1/2" or 3/4" to connect to the slide supply. Is there another way to do it? And you are saying to go with the "t" with then a ball valve somewhere in line with the slide supply?

any idea which one i'd need and how in the world to install?

So to use the ball valve would I think just put a "T" in the return line and run that to the slide line? Then put a ball valve somewhere in that line? Or instead of a "T" should I put a 2 way valve there and also a ball valve in the slide line? One of my worries is that the slide line coming...