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Hi everyone, I'm making the switch to a SWG this season, after reading every thread I could find on this forum on the topic! I have one question, however, that hasn't been answered elsewhere. The Taylor K-1766 salt test, and all salt tests I can find, measure total salt levels which I'm...

Hello All, We are currently in the proposal phase of our first pool. We have gone to 4 builders and as soon as we get our next quote in we will be making a decision on who to move forward with. Any recommendations on things we should do during this initial stage before signing contracts is...

Had pool resurfaced with a pebble finish on 11/1/2022 and builder did initial startup. I took over maint and chem balancing from the PB on 11/6/2022. Per TFP forum recommendations I followed NPC startup guidance processes. On 11/27/2022 started using a Taylor K2006-C test kit and tested CH to...

So after a long time trying to figure out the calibration and behavior of this SmarterSpa SWCG, I've finally complained to their support team enough that they are sending me a Chlormaker control board to replace the SmarterSpa board, and disable the dumb sensor. I'm happy about this since I...

My first winter with my first pool. As my water temperature drops (about 60 deg F now) I'm going to shut down the SWG and maintain as a liquid chlorine pool. My water is good shape now (thanks TFP!) with my cell still running. Free chlorine at 5. When I shut it down however, my CYA will...

I just installed a SWG about 2 months ago and I'm still getting used to the variations in chemistry balance. My numbers look generally in range, but the final CSI result is strongly negative (about -0.66 this last week). That seems bad to me. How bad is that? Tested just now: FC = 6.5 pH = 7.5...

I have a Aquarite G1-011056-1 RevC board, it was giving me trouble previously and i replaced the thermistors and it worked great for the season .. Last week i noticed it turned off so after i checked on it it seems like the black wires coming into the board from the Rectifiers is burning up and...

Hello! Our PB just told us that they have tried 8 different times to get a hold of Coverstar to price a pool cover from them, and when they finally got through to them, it was the same kind of challenge to get pricing from them. They have been at this for over 2 months and are concerned about...

We just had our SWG start up last week for my 10,000 gallon pool. The pool builder company came and added salt. I just did my first salt test (Taylor TF-100 salt kit) and it’s showing 4400ppm. Too high I know, but is it dangerously high? Will this go down over time? Here are my readings: Ph 7.6...

The pool servicer came yesterday to do the startup for salt. How long does it take for it to start producing chlorine? I tested today (24 hours later) and had 0 FC. Do I need to supplement with liquid chlorine right now until the SWG catches up and is producing enough?

How do I move from my current situation of Shocking my pool to SLAMing it? What do I do with my pool while waiting for my test kit to arrive? Background: We just got our pool & started with trips to the local pool store for testing & supplies. This week they gave me a printout and told me what...

Hello TFP Members! I am questioning everything about our pool and how it is maintained. I will try and make this post concise so that answers and recommendations can be easily offered. I have already done much reading here and have concluded that most of what I have been doing in maintaining...

Hi there, I have experience with maintaining a simple chlorine pool with a single speed pump, single cartridge filter and cholorine tablet dispenser for a pool that's screened in. So low maintenance. Now we have a salt water pool, with pentair variable speed pump, pentair controler panel...

Hi all, we are about 10 months into our 1st pool. I am trying to figure out which salt level result to trust more. Table below shows results from the TFT salt test (chromium/silver nitrate) and the SWG reading (pentair intellichlor-40) using the reading taken at same time as water sample for...

Hi, I have a SWG (Autopilot DIG 220), single speed water pump and Jandy Ti5000 Air source heat pump. The timer in the SWG turns on/off the pump as per wiring in manual. The heater turns on/off the water pump when heat is needed. All three can be on together, two (SWG and water pump), two (water...

Hi all, Pool recently installed (deck currently being built). No pool school yet (although I’ve owned a pool before) so pool company has been managing water once a week. Today they came round and I noticed after they had left, that they had removed the chlorine tablets from the floater and had...

I have an older set of equipment (1990s I believe). Single speed Hayward pump, gas heater, DE filter, Jandy automation. It all works, so not trying to just spend money for no reason. But know I’ll move to new equipment once something breaks (VS pump, etc). What’s the best path to add in...

Hi, everyone. I’m dealing with a small outbreak of algae. This is my first experience with it, so I have a couple of questions. We accidentally left the chlorine generator off on our SWG and, with weather too cool to swim, I didn’t pay much attention to the pool. That was a mistake...

Hi! I'm tired of having too high CYA from using pucks and all the maintenance from using liquid chlorine and want to make the switch to SWG. My husband is fairly handy so I think we can install the equipment ourselves. Which would you recommend for a 30,000 (20x40) gallon pool? It doesn't...

I bought a house several months ago that had an existing Pentair IC60 system with a broken Flow Switch. The switch's metal tang with the contact magnet was broken off/missing. I've replaced the Flow Switch six times with those from various manufacturers, including Pentair, only to have them...

I am considering wiring my CircuPool RJ 60 to my Jandy VS pump to come on when the pump comes on. Per the Jandy manual, it looks like I could use one of the two auxiliary relays. Does this wiring schematic seem doable? The most difficult thing would be adding the GFCI breaker to my pool pad...

Hi TFP Looking at building a new pool and this time around highly considering a SWG. Previous pool was built 2 years ago and was done with an inline chlorinator. That solution has worked fine but the CYA did get high which led to some water replacement. Not terrible over the course of 2 years...

My pump recently died and it was replaced with a Pentair VST pump. Previously everything was connected to a mechanical timer that turned everything on/off. The installer said since the new pump has its own timer I didn't need to use the mechanical timer anymore and he removed the on/off...

I'm new to pool maintenance, and we recently set up our 16x32 foot pool with a SWG. I've heard of some people that were able to forego using CYA with an SWG if they kept a pool covered on a regular basis. I've tried this method - I do run the SWG a bit more than would be necessary if adding CYA...

I am converting our pool to an SWG. After much time on this forum and its recommendations and reviews, I have narrowed it down to CircuPool. I have a 17-18k gallon pool south facing in the Central Florida sun/heat. My choices are between the CircuPool RJ-45 PLUS and the RJ-60 PLUS. Is the RJ-60...

Been having some issues trying to get my pool open. Had been using an old pack of test strips and realised they were very out of date resulting in I think me adding too much stabiliser to the pool, so ordered some more tests (different brand), replaced half the water and this test contains a...

Hi there. I have a Jandy Aquapure system with a 1400 cell. Recently, my sensor start reading erratic values. I tested water manually with a TSD tester and salt test strips and read a level of 3.1. The jandy said 4.2 so i did the calibration procedure(held salinity button for 15 seconds) and...

Why do I have shrimp in my salt water pool? They are very, very tiny, but those are definitely shrimp. The second image shows them in relation to the bottom of a small beach bucket so you can see how small they are, maybe 1/2 cm. FC 6.5 pH 7.4 TA 80 CH 300 CYA 50

We are looking at making the switch to SWG at our pools, starting with our 60,000 gallon pool in Michigan. It's a brand new pool as of 2020, though I regret that I wasn't more involved as the pool company built it out with a Jandy single speed pump (that they didn't even hook up to the...

We have a new 20,000 gallon SWG Gunite Pool filled on 5/6 and the pump running continuously since then, mostly at low speed (1500-1700 rpm) when not in use or while cleaning. 18 bags (@ 40 lbs each) of salt was added on 5/27 which works out to about 3400 ppm. The Intellichlor IC40 label says the...