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Does the skirt of your spa cover fully cover the acrylic? This looks like warping due to heat. I'd make sure your skirt is long enough and isn't getting stuck underneath the tub lip when closed. If you have a infrared thermometer, I would shoot it at the side of the tub on a warm, sunny...

We use bleach exclusively except on initial fill until CYA gets where it needs to be. I had the same problem with "can't be bothered with testing and measuring chemicals, I just want to use it". This is all I heard from DW and my 23 yr old daughter for the first two months. After month...

Problem surfaced again last night after 25 minutes of using the tub. Wife went to change the color using topside panel and lights went out. You could turn the lights back on but could not freeze a color. Checked all connections today, no corrosion, everything is tight. All light cables run...

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Welcome! First use Ahh-some with 6-7pm chlorine, run for 30 minutes, skim off brown foam, drain, rinse, clean tub, refill. Add enough dichlor to get to shock level, I use 12ppm free CL on fresh fill. Pull pillows. Ahh-some residual will consume CL so keep an eye on CL level. Test...

Hotsprings, Sundance, Marquis that is what I would consider. All depends on your budget as each of those mfg's make very high end to good base models. Full disclosure I'm a Sundance 880 owner, bought it used.

We were in the tub late last night, cold out (28F) and snowing. When you turn on the LED lights, the color rotates. Wife wanted to lock in the red color and when we pressed the light mode button, the top side LED lights flickered(reminded me of short in a circuit) then color continued to...

rhtubs, great covers imo

Hi Susie, First of all, welcome. You have a great resource available at TFP and great people to help you. Chlorine pucks are going to cause you more headaches than they are worth (high CYA levels that will reduce chlorine effectiveness, PH and TA fluctuations) especially with a hot tub...

GFCI spa breakers are expensive so what I did was install the breaker in the main panel with a disconnect outside within view from the tub. Disconnects are cheap to replace.

Seems to me you have some type of cable or breaker problem or both. Based on that article above, my suspicion would be the breaker is over heating or failing/failed with no power to top side. Do you have an IR gun, you could measure the temp at the breaker with no load and with load if you can...

Re: Hot Tub Green Water Color Issue After Clean Fill - Help! Ahh-Some Convert! I would fill and see what your chlorine demand is b4 adding a maintenance dose. Keep in mind, on the refill, your chlorine demand will be higher after using ahh-some since the chlorine oxidizes left over product...

I used ahh-some but not the other. I have trouble with the maintenance dose. If you keep your tub sanitized, how can growth occur in the plumbing system if you previously flushed it with either product prior to refill? This statement has always seemed fishy to me provided you keep an...

Personally, I would just carry in a bottle of Walmart bleach, it's cheap and readily available. Using bleach won't impact PH much and if the lake water is neutral, there should not be too much water maintenance other than putting bleach in after people use it since you are dumping after 5...

@Noise Good information, thank you. While it made sense to me to raise free chlorine level to shock level the directions for hot tub use do not say to do this but that's what you wrote above "typically raise chlorine levels..." I was concerned a little on what affect high levels of chlorine...

Make sure you pull your pillows.

My tub was used so first thing I did was run ahh some through it. Pull the filters and put them in the center of the tub. Directions say you can use with cold or hot water. I think it's 1 tsp per 100 gallons but plz verify. I ran my tub for 20 minutes w/ all pumps, blower and jets open and...

Now that the chlorine levels have come down, here is my FC drop: Measured this morning at 0545 FC=3.0 Just measured again at 1645, FC= 1.5 No use through the day, added 1.5 ounces of 12.5% chlorine, temp at 102, PH 7.4, TA 55, CYA 40

It would be helpful if you posted both sets of results. How old are your reagents, was your kit purchased recently? You should also be testing free and combined chlorine (DPD test) and cyanuric acid (CYA) as this level impacts sanitizer effectiveness. PH is going to drift upward in a hot tub...

Hi Ron, Congrats. That's a great tub, I'll trade you my chestnut panels for your mahogany...lol May I ask you a quick question, what's you free chlorine consumption like ? I'm consuming 3-5 ppm in less than a day and have been holding the tub at shock level for 2 days with same burn off rates.

I'm hoping I can answer that question in another few days. Your and my goal seem to be the same - determine average drop of FC over 24 hours. I'll post my results in a few days once I get out of these higher levels of FC. I keep my tub at a constant 102, what's yours at, how many gallons...

I'm still new to this but what I'm seeing with my 370 gallon tub is the free chlorine starts to drop about 2 hours after bathers exit. Without my knowledge, my wife and 2 kids used the tub the other night b4 soaking the tub was at 5pm FC. They soaked for 45 minutes and they tested after...

Re: Hot Tub Green Water Color Issue After Clean Fill - Help! Ahh-Some Convert! Hi Scott, How many gallons does your tub hold? I'm interested in this ahh-some maintenance dose since I'm on a well and can't repeatedly flush and fill. Thanks!

Great info in this post thanks Chem geek. A quick question when it's time to do a water change - can you add ahh-some to the water you are about to change, or do you need to dump, refill, treat with ahh-some using clean water, dump then refill and balance? With the dry summer we had, my...

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Thanks pooldv, I've jumped many pins on a PC motherboard b4 but not on hot tubs.. What's confusing me is the wiring diagram above, JP9-1 is listed as 'On' but the jumper is just sitting on pin #1, it's not across pins 1&2. If I move this jumper across pins 7-8, will JP-1 remain On, I think so...

According to the image below I need to jump pins 7&8 on JP-9 but I don't think I have a spare jumper unless pin 1 on JP-9 is not in use. Is pin 1 on JP-9 being jumped in its current position,I don't think it is, if not, then why does the wiring diagram show it On?

I'm finishing my wiring to a 2014 Sundance Cameo and while connecting the LFNC-B conduit to the spa panel, I found a ribbon cable unplugged at the bottom of the equipment bay. This cable is labeled 'Connect to ISC-100'. A quick Google search (no hits searching this forum) leads me to believe...