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@soc4evr - Great tip on the thermal cover! Thanks. Hi all - sorry I never get here anymore...the Portuguese water dog I got 2 years ago literally eats all my free time...don't get a working dog unless you wanna work ;) Hi ho. Also, accepted a new client 2 years back that eats the rest of my...

Starlog dome update winter 2019 brief The dome survived and self-righted after snowpocalypse week ;) I’ve found the best approach is to just wait...if you refrain from interfering, a collapsing/collapsed dome seems to rectify itself. Don’t be tempted to knock snow off the ends...then it will...

If you’re thinking about replacing it anyway, I would go ahead and experiment with storing it in the pool over the winter, under a cover, folded but free-floating, maybe with some guide ropes wrapped around it to manouver it for removal come spring. If the top part freezes bit isn’t under...

^i like that idea. Go ahead and invent that ;)

Lol. With the baking soda, it’s still a bit messy and takes a bit of time to completely clear too. But I’d be nervous about storing without it...the dome can go away dry but the box has to stay dry too in summer’s humidity. Those desiccant bags are FULL each year by Sept!

Good morning, dr. Way. A friend of mine who used to build pools thought storing it in water would be ideal but in our case we never found a container that would suit and seal. We use a little plastic mini-shed with two front doors and a roof that lifts up. My friend’s conviction that water is...

Good morning. .3 is right on the edge of stain potential for copper. Your ph is high at 8 and could cause copper to come out of solution. I would suggest lowering it to 7.2-7.4 with muriatic acid to see if that clears the tint. I always hear mixed reports of Metal Free and have seen people not...

Hi guys. Been a little tied up with a new puppy and an ailing FIL so don’t have much sustained attention ;) Mis, how many ppm of copper did they say? Makes a difference on whether i’d recommend changing out a portion of the water or just doing a mini acid wash and relying on Sequestrant to keep...

Scx, glad it helped you. I had the same problem finding information, hence the thread ;)

No, unfortunately, ambient weather doesn’t do that. I haven’t yet found a good one that does so I made one out of a fibro window alarm with a waterproof box and via smart things hub and some hack code, have it talking to my phone. Let me know if you have ST and I can point you to a build thread...

172pilot, my sistem has been online since sometime in feb. It updates any time there is a .6 degree change. It still reports the battery to be at 100 percent...which I don’t quite believe ;) I will let you know when it stops!

Ek, if you are an IT engineer, I’m afraid you won’t be especially impressed with other automation options either, though allegedly yours is notoriously buggy. The pool industry must be where obsolesceced programmers-go to die ;) Pentair’s system is reasonabley reliable within itself but old...

My suggestion is also just a guess, but since I frequently wrangle with Metal issues, in your shoes, I’d spend the $300 or so to just replace the ladder with the coated kind. You won’t know if/when that ladder corrodes internally, or how much of it leeches into the pool. Why not just eliminate...

I’m sorry no ones been able to help you resolve the mystery. Bonding is sometimes best left to an electrician with industrial experience because it can be difficult now and then to sleuth out the source of the problem. I’ve heard tales of cases where a neighbor’s pump gone bad a mile away sent...

You can sometimes straighten out a fold using two plungers for suction (one in each hand). This tends to work better in warm water. But are you sure the water table has receded? It may still resolve on its own.

I’m not sure how to calculate your run cost as mine is natural gas. In my 25k gal pool with a 266 btu natural gas heater, it takes about an hour run to net about 1-1.5 degrees - so at .75 per CCF, with an 80% efficient heater, that’s about $1.50.In summer, my heat runs around $250/mo heated...

It depends on the specific hydraulics of your system design. In mine, for example, clean pressure is around 15-16 at full rpm (though I have a variable speed pump.) So anything 25% above clean pressure, eg, in my case, 19-20 psi, means time to backwash. So give your filter a good backwash and...

16 years is a good long life. When I replaced my 15 year old Hayward EDii, I purchased a Raypak 266k btu heater at inyopools.com for around $1600 - less than half the prices quoted by local installers. I paid another $400 approx for a licensed electrician and an installer. I had not needed any...

Lol. It is still sitting in the pool house. I had taken pics with an endoscope and sent them all to a distr rep from Raypak that had been advising me during the tech’s visit during the failure. I suspect he’s mystified as I’ve heard nothing back from him. The new one is now “shedding” as...

Good to know. Maybe I should see if there are higher rated lights in terms of lumens. Then again, my only goal for colored lights is mood so softer may be fine. Changez, let us know how you like yours when you’re all done!

Yes, blizz, do tell. Like the original poster I’ve been scheming to upgrade to the bulb too...you know, to match my pink led-lit cowboy hat to wear while riding a bull-float ;) Changeze, your light looks like my light, which I think is a Pentair Amerilight. This link on inyopools.com shows you...

Hi Michael. Sounds like so far so good ;) My setup is indoors (pool house) so I can't elp you on weatherproofing. I believe my electrician used zip ties on the lw voltage wires...I'll check to see in the morning and post back. I am running a heater, but not actuators, on mine.

I'm sorry I can't help you more on the polling - my system was Intermatic 653 with smartthings hub using groovy to liberate the end point commands. Maybe on the weekend I could dig up my poll loop code (I know there was a refresh command in there) but since I was suspicious of my loop I...

Anti chef, re You're likely better equipped for this than I was, but with my hack code on smartthings, I had to create "pistons" in web core using a loop to poll/check status. I suspect this is where my own bug arose that would occasionally shut my pump off at random times since that hadn't...

Glad you survived wind storm. In my neck of the woods, I aim to take it down mid-May. It will start to get quite toasty in there soon ;) And he's, its an adjustment going back to "open water". High heat/sun is what ages the vinyl, which is why the mfg doesn't generally recommend leaving it up...

In my own and somewhat unrelated experiments with hack code to control a pool controller I will say that while I appreciate the desire to have dual control scenarios that its not viable with the way most home automation hubs currently work. Once my hub was controlling scheduling, the handheld by...

Tstx, just so you know re: This may be true with the other systems. With Intermatic PE653 Multiwave without extension you can control 4 speed settings on a Pentair VSP. With the p504 expander, you can control just about all other brands, including Century. However, by "control" I mean set 4...

Scott, most of the automation option, eg Pentair easy touch, Jandy aqua link, hayward omnilogic, are fairly robust in cost...but each of them has an option to extend communications to you cell phone and in some scenarios, home automation systems. In a short season, for example, you may want to...

Lol. Yes, the max temp is about 95 that runs through it. The way I have it set up is a 1" hose I fitted with plastic connectors this year, connected to a valve thingy I rigged up on 1 return. The water is returned to the pool via a second hose that connects to the PVC outlet. I'm quite amazed...

Lol. I'm kinda stuck with the "gender configuration" being metal male to female PVC on this one given the way the original was made (unless I want to remake the connectors too) but I know what you mean. BTW, turns out my torch work yesterday wasn't so nice after all. Had to torch off those...