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    Different sand sizes

    Hi, I'm gather the material to swap out the sand on my Pentair Tritton II TR 140 sand filter. Went to one local hardware store last night and got the last seven bags of pool sand they had. Today I went by a different chain and bought what they had. So now I have almost enough. When I got...
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    Sand Suggestions?

    Hi All, Looking for suggestions, I have TR 140 filter, it holds 900+ lbs of sand. It seems to have lost of ability it filter out the finer particles. The water is mostly just cloudy, but does a brown\green tint to it. It's so bad you can barely say the bottom at 3'. I've shocked and vacuumed...
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    Sand Filter media

    Hi all, Pool's been looking good all summer, then one day a couple of weeks ago it started getting a little cloudy and it's just gone downhill since. Had a massive algae outbreak that took too much effort to get under control. And even after that I can't get the water to clear up. The water...
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    Cracked Elbow

    Hi I broke off one of the elbows on the chlorine feeder. I went up to the local hardware and found a couple elbows in the sprinkler section, brought it back and installed them. I replaced both elbows while I was at it. Fast forward a couple of weeks and now one is cracked and the other is...
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    Wiring a pump

    Hi Sorry if this has been asked before but I can't seem to find the answer. I'm hooking up a Pentair supoerflo vs 342001 to 220. The whip has red-hot, black-hot, copper ground and white neutral. The pump only has line 1 and 2, and ground. What am I supposed to do with the neutral? Since it...
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    Eco

    My pumps about 12 years old. Yep it's been around for a while. It's a 2hp pentair, not sure of the exact model. A couple of days ago it's started shutting off and turning back on by itself. It's overheating. I tried the easy fixes, but I'm thinking it's probably time replace the whole thing...
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    Pentair Valve 27-2101 leaking from handle

    Hello.. Just opening the pool and noticed a steady drip from just under the handle. It problably one drop every couple of seconds. Is this something I should fix or is better to replace the whole thing? I was looking at pentiars website and found a parts list but didnt know what to get. Any...
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    Pentair Metal Halide Problem

    Hello new to the forum but I've been lurking a reading a bit. Just bought a house with a pool. I'd used the pool calculator to get the pool chemistry up to par and everything with the pool itself seem to be fine except the light. When we bought the house I assumed the bulb was burnt out...