Hello everyone, it's been awhile! :-D
I guess we're all getting ready to open (if we haven't already), and I had an issue come up. At the end of last season, my pump motor (Whisperflo WF24) got REALLY loud and finally died.
I got a new motor from my PB, and when I went to attach it to the body of my pump, I discovered that the old motor housing was corroded (white, flaky) and broken (where the bolts go through the holes in the housing)...and my plastic seal plate (where the pump attaches to the seal plate) was even cracked and broken.
A sales lady at my PB said that it could be from low calcium (the water trying to 'find' calcium) and/or pH problems. I had my pH dialed in last year and tested it often, but I'm ashamed to say I didn't check calcium regularly...the few times I did, it was around 150.
Could calcium be the issue? Or is this just to be expected with salt? Or maybe some other issue (metals)?
thank as always
I guess we're all getting ready to open (if we haven't already), and I had an issue come up. At the end of last season, my pump motor (Whisperflo WF24) got REALLY loud and finally died.
I got a new motor from my PB, and when I went to attach it to the body of my pump, I discovered that the old motor housing was corroded (white, flaky) and broken (where the bolts go through the holes in the housing)...and my plastic seal plate (where the pump attaches to the seal plate) was even cracked and broken.
A sales lady at my PB said that it could be from low calcium (the water trying to 'find' calcium) and/or pH problems. I had my pH dialed in last year and tested it often, but I'm ashamed to say I didn't check calcium regularly...the few times I did, it was around 150.
Could calcium be the issue? Or is this just to be expected with salt? Or maybe some other issue (metals)?
thank as always