I have an attached/raised spa. It has 4 returns in a semicircle on one side and only one return on the other where to waterfall is. The lone return is much lower flow and also no bubbles come on when I turn the blower on. Is this how it's supposed to act? It's a new pool to me and I just replaced the blower. Thanks for the help.
No bubbles out of one return
- Thread starter RussellC
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If that return is linked to the waterfall, it may be designed not to have bubbles/aeration as you don't really want bubbles going through the waterfall. Can you determine if the waterfall is on it's own return, not in the loop with the blower and if perhaps that one return is as well?
Sorry, maybe I made it sounds like it was linked to the waterfall. I just meant that is is over on the side with the spillover. It's really weird, maybe that lone return is plumbed with the pool somehow and not the spa...no idea why it would flow water but not air when I turn the blower on. That return is very much about the same flow as the pool returns whereas the other returns in the spa have a much higher flow rate.
Sounds like it might be a recirculation return for moving water from the pool to the spa and out of the overflow back to the pool.
OK, yeah. you might be right. Trying to figure out how to test that. if I set my pool to spa only no water should come out of then, right? but it does. Trying to think about how my plumbing is set up and how it would let that happen. hmmm.
While in pool mode last night i closed off the valve to the pool returns and verified they were off, then checked that return, still flowing. Any ideas on what else to check?