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Hi Bad news for me as I opened my pool - appears water accumulated in the heat pump over the winter and the PVC outflow manifold cracked. Looks like it is just a bunch of standard 2" pvc parts, but it ties into the heat exchanger. anyone know where I can find a service manual for this? I...

It's about $175 jump in price so I'd almost have to get a season and a half more out of it to make it worth it. FWIW, I got over 8000 hours on the IC40. I hear what you are saying on the electronics. In the 5 years I have had the pool, I have replaced the easy touch board, the intelliflo...

Hi - I have a 30,000 gal pool and need to replace my pentair SWG. The pool was built in 2014, so I got about 5 years out of my IC40. As I think about replacement, any thoughts on sizing? Will i get better value by moving up to an IC60, or is it a waste of money? I didnt really have any...

Not sure what others have experienced with Pentair, but as a point of comparison... I had an entire pentair system installed 4 years ago. So far, under the 3 year "complete system" warranty, I have had easy touch mother board, one globrite, intelliflow controller and screenlogic protocol...

Hi I currently have an IC40 driven by an Easy Touch panel. I need to replace the SWG and was hoping someone here had found a good price on a replacement cell. Thoughts?

Yes - Yes - I get that but my point is that I have jumped through hoops and stood on my head and juggled live chickens and when I test with 7065 std, I always read 30. Is there a reason that I wouldn't recalibrate the tube to match my results?

you perhaps a strange question, but wanted to get input. Lots of talk here about adjusting the "tester" to get the right results. I too ordered 7065 and am getting consistent 30 results. Is it possible to relabel the tube to adjust the measurement equipment to match my notion of what test...

BTW - has anyone ever used taylor R-7065 standard as a means of verifying test result accuracy? Seems like a good idea but I cant see that you can buy it anywhere other than large quantities from Taylor.

So did the OCLT and have a couple of observations... First, at 8 pm FC was 8.5 and CC was 0. At 6 am FC was 7.5 and CC was <0.5 but not 0. So I guess this confirms it is algae and not pollen or something else settling on the bottom. The interesting thing was that I went to one part of the...

Great suggestions - let me try to answer the questions: Texas - I will do an OCLT tonight prior to SLAM. I think my FC is 9-10 since the weather has cooled and I havent adjusted my SWG cycle. I will report back results. Catanzaro - I have had no real bather load since labor day since it got...

I am going to wait a couple of days to start the next SLAM to take advantage of the free time on the weekend, and post some notes, but after going through it 3 times, I feel comfortable with the process and I have read through the procedures many times...i dont think I am missing anything. Each...

So this is my first year with a pool - we built it last summer and only had it open about 2 months last summer so this was my first full summer. I found TFP while we were building and I spent quite a bit of time reading up on chemistry management and thought I had a good handle on what to do...

I have been browsing posts here and I see many folks posting very low pump speeds with SWG systems. I have a pentair intelliflow and a pentair IC40 on a 31000 gal pool. When I drop pump speed lower than about 1700-1800 rpm, i get low flow errors from the SWG. Is that to be expected? I see...

Thanks for the responses. I do have the TF 100 kit and have been using pool math regularly. I didnt really think I had much of an algae problem as I only see a few small spots on the floor of the pool, but this morning I backwashed the pump and it was fairly green. I have never seen that...

Have not done this before, but was curious on adding chlorine and speed of dispersion. When adding chlorine bleach, should I pour straight into the skimmer so that it is pumped out through the returns, or is the concentrated level harmful to the equipment? When I add acid for pH balance, I...

I just opened the pool and am not sure if I should SLAM. It has been open for a few weeks now, and water is very clear, but there a small spots here and there where green algae is starting to grow on the bottom. I have been brushing it and vacuuming and it seems to move around a little. I...

I am thinking I'd like to get things going soon - get the chemistry balanced and make sure it is all ready to go by the time the weather warms up, but we have lots of trees and lots of pollen. Its usually May by the time the pollen subsides and Im sure the water temp will be in the 60s or 70s...

This is the first time closing as my pool was just built this year. Closing was included in the price, so of course I let the PB close and I watched. What I noticed is that they did nothing with the pool lights and the water level is still above the level of the lights. The way these pentair...

Does anyone here remove slide or dive board when closing the pool? Is is OK for these to remain outdoors in wet freezing weather?

I like the idea of running nearly continuously. I think I will try this and see how it works. At 1000 rpm, looks like the pump is only consuming a little over 100W. Thanks everyone for the input! Now I just need to get all of the chemicals balanced....

Thanks for the info. There is so much good data here that somehow I overlooked the article on pump run time. All very helpful!

I have an Aquacomfort H/C heat pump and a Pentair Easy Touch 4 control panel. My PB tells me that I can not use the controller to control the heat and cool functions for the heat pump. They contend that Pentair controller will only work with the Pentair H/C heat pump. Anyone have any...

I am new to this and just had my pool completed a few weeks back. I have a 30K gal IG with a sand filter, Intelliclor SWG and an Intelliflow variable speed pump. I really have no idea how long I should be running it and how I should be setting the SWG. The PB left it running at about 2400 rpm...

Just had a pool built and the PB installed an Easy Touch comtrol panel. The docs describe a "color swim" feature that sounds like it switches colors on the pool lights creating a chaser effect. I can make this work on mine - I have 4 pentair globrites. I am guessing that in order to enable...