troubleshooting

  1. B

    Over floc’d & overwhelmed!

    Opened my inground pool a week ago and have had nothing but problems. It is concrete with a vinyl liner. This is our first season with the pool and we have zero experience. It had a huge algae bloom right off and it has been a struggle to get chemicals in balance. Algae is dead now but...
  2. T

    We are NEW NEW and need some help

    We bought our house that has an in ground pool last summer and had a company winterize for the winter. Made the decision to try to open it ourselves with lots of YouTube schooling. Well…we got knocked back to kindergarten! Lol. Thought we had it all done and together. Turned it on and the PSI...
  3. golovko

    New pool build with Jandy JXi heater that doesn't work

    Hi all, Looking for guidance from those with experience with new heater installs as part of a new pool build. The heater has never been able to complete the startup sequence and always results in a fault with 3 LED flashes for IGN SEQ FAILURE. My pool construction was completed early August and...
  4. HikeAbout

    Suction-Side Air Leak? A Plea For Help!

    Hello TFP! My husband and I just bought a new house with a 20-year-old in-ground concrete pool. It has two skimmers, two jets, and no main drain. The pump and filter are both below grade (in our basement). The pump is a Hayward Super Pump and it connects to a sand filter. We're pool beginners...
  5. D

    Pentair intellitouch: turn on spa, pump speeds up, but nothing happens at the spa

    I have a Pentair intellitouch system. Today, when I turn on the spa overflow waterfall or the spa jets, the pump speeds up but nothing happens at the spa. Same ting with spa jets + heater...heater turns on - nothing at the spa. This is the first time I have experienced this. I don't see any...
  6. M

    Insect Larvae

    First Post here but have had several saltwater pools over the last 10 years and never seen this issue before. Live in the Dallas area and we have had a very rainy few of months, so last night before bed I throw in a couple of bags of shock before going to bed to take care of some algae I see...
  7. TVGREEN23

    Raypak 206A Millivolt Trouble Shooting

    New to the Forum but not completely new to pools. Lucky enough to grow up with one in my backyard and Pops had me working on it young. Now that I have moved back into my childhood home with my fiance, I am trying to knock off the dust a bit lol. Im good with cleaning the pumps and filters but...
  8. C

    Pentair intellibrite color led troubleshooting

    I have a few pentair 601001 lights. It’s controlled via IntelliTouch It’s a 120 light. I’ve verified 120 with relay cycle at junction. even thoughnot a lot of water in there still slightly some. Made in 2017 and only used a few times until attempting recently it seems too soon to be replacing...
  9. A

    Hayward 400FDN starts but does not heat water

    Looking for help! I have an H400FDN that is a 4 years old and has always worked perfectly. The other day we turned it on as normal to enjoy a spring pool day. The heater turned on, lit the natural gas as normal. An hour or so later, we noticed the heater was running, but wasn’t heating the...
  10. Bootstrap7718

    LED pool lights have strange characteristics

    So I'm in the property management industry and provide pool maintenance for a condo association that's twenty years old and poorly maintained in the earlier years. This thread is for the pool lights that have a mind of their own. Since I've started at this property several months ago I've...
  11. dclynds

    Polaris 9550 Sport Troubleshooting Help

    My Polaris 9550 sport has not worked properly for about 9 months now. It starts a cleaning cycle ok, but after one or two times of climbing the wall, reversing down, and turning to start another forward swath, it stalls out for about 5 seconds, then starts driving backwards until it goes up the...