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Nope, no iron here. This is city water, from Lake Michigan. It wipes off easily, and does cloud up. I do have a Jack's Magic test kit I could use to confirm, or find some C.

Generally good, however this is the first return in the series so I'd say the water there is probably the "deadest" in the pool. Not often enough. :-) But Rosie (Dolphin M500) runs daily so that helps. The yellow/translucent would be the algae and the darker is the paint chipping away...

One follow-up question. Would you clean your filter before and after the mustard-level slam, or just after?

Backstory, had pool about five years. Water pretty much managed itself using the advice here and methods. Went a spell early this year without a SWG (replaced it) and went live with it in late spring. During that period we were on pucks and liquid chlorine. Water has been mostly clear this...

I did not! Is there a secret shortcut I should know about?

Funny - tried calling Pentair this morning... Their phone menu is broken. When you land on IntelliCenter, you get a voicemail that the extension is not taking calls, then it tells you to call the number you just did, and it hangs up on you. The path in the IVR is 1 1 1 1 1 3. Then I went in...

I have answers, or a plausible explanation. By way of a company that I do business with that has a connection with our local Pentair rep. Apparently this is a known issue with the original/early version of firmware on the IntelliFlo 2 VST combined with IntelliCenter firmware 23. "I spoke to...

45, and open. Brrrrr. ?

Interesting! I forget there is so much more you can do at the panel vs. the WebUI/App. I.e in the web, you can create a light group, but there are no options for color. So once you have your light groups - can you also put them in circuit groups, or are you just limited to schedules? (IMO...

I wonder... our heater is turned off now (but is configured) on the Intellicenter, because the water is still 45 degrees. Could it be that I'm not seeing the options for heat set points, due to that? That would be stupid. Edit - yep, that was it. How freaking annoying. LOL. Now I see all...

Opening just runs the pump 24x7 today. We start the pool up when it's still quite cold outside, so I like 24x7 for freeze protection, and to get the water nice and clear. Plus I'm usually rebalancing the water after having replaced (with rain/snow) 1/3 of the water. We ran in this mode for a...

@Jimrahbe - The reason it's in a group - is because of trying to be user friendly. Clicking on "Opening" and overriding the schedule in entirety - is friendlier than picking 2500 don't stop. There isn't anything else in that group now, no. But see below about my light comment for ideas I...

@Jimrahbe - The reason it's in a group - is because of trying to be user friendly. Clicking on "Opening" and overriding the schedule in entirety - is friendlier than picking 2500 don't stop. There isn't anything else in that group now, no. But see below about my light comment for ideas I...

What is quite interesting is that this state persisted through a power-off ... I had shut power to the panel for some other stuff prior to this.

Well, hidden was probably a bad choice of words. But it's set to not show as a "feature" so it's not showing on the main screen or app in features section. Don't get me started with these freak Wisconsin snow storms... Last year we got a foot of snow on Easter Sunday. It's 50 degrees now so...

@MyAZPool -- this is now happening to me. Probably a result of my tinkering with service/timeout for that other thread. Same symptom - Circuit Group on ("Opening" - runs pump non stop). The circuit it activates (2500 don't stop) is hidden so I can't see it's status, but the pump is not...

Sorry - I haven't forgotten about this. I haven't been able to figure anything out so far... (Got distracted with water chemistry.) Will try and get on with Pentair again, or have my stealer come out to look with a Pentair rep perhaps. Tony

It acts "normal" -- and would never flip into that program. Ran it years that way, before the Intellicenter. I was thinking bad cable (but everything else works?) Proved it wasn't a bad port by flipping them around. Maybe some kind of firmware/incompatibility issue? This pump was probably...

OK, so moving the com port connection for the pump didn't make a difference. And disconnecting the SWG lead didn't change anything either. Right back into Program 1 on service. It's past bedtime (10:30) here, so I'll check back in the morning and maybe try Pentair back on the phone.

Yea - I want it for "folks that can't or don't want to understand the system and that I don't want to mess with my programs or circuits". i.e. my husband, morning skimmer emptier. ;-) Also handy if someone doesn't have the PIN, and needs to shut the equipment off in an emergency i.e. house...

Pump is on J5, SWG cable is wired to J4 but not connected yet, but it will be Thursday. Hmm. Maybe I need to see what happens when I disconnect the SWG com port, or even switch the pump around.