- Mar 21, 2012
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Hello all,
Great info on this forum. Thanks go to Jason for that!
I've been in an argument with my salt system since last year. It's an Aquarite Gold with a T-15 cell. Last year the board went blank. So I did the search as you all have and did the digikey fix. Voila! Fixed! For about two months. The system quit again and I this time I noticed that the resistor was completely burnt around the connections to the board. I'm a good solderer (if that's a word) and it did work so I know the connection was good. However, why would it burn out so quickly? So, with the board looking fried and damaged, I broke down and bought a new one. I installed it and still no salt generation. The cell was about 8 years old so I bought the replacement compupool cell and plugged it in. Great! It started generating right away. However I noticed a transformer "hum" coming from the box and you could feel it as well. After about 30 minutes I checked back in and noticed the smell coming from the control box. I took off the panel and the current limiter was super hot! Are they supposed to get this hot? I couldn't even touch it. Is that much current needed to generate salt? At this point , there shouldn't be anything left to replace!
So I guess my question is, is this normal operation?
Thanks.
Great info on this forum. Thanks go to Jason for that!
I've been in an argument with my salt system since last year. It's an Aquarite Gold with a T-15 cell. Last year the board went blank. So I did the search as you all have and did the digikey fix. Voila! Fixed! For about two months. The system quit again and I this time I noticed that the resistor was completely burnt around the connections to the board. I'm a good solderer (if that's a word) and it did work so I know the connection was good. However, why would it burn out so quickly? So, with the board looking fried and damaged, I broke down and bought a new one. I installed it and still no salt generation. The cell was about 8 years old so I bought the replacement compupool cell and plugged it in. Great! It started generating right away. However I noticed a transformer "hum" coming from the box and you could feel it as well. After about 30 minutes I checked back in and noticed the smell coming from the control box. I took off the panel and the current limiter was super hot! Are they supposed to get this hot? I couldn't even touch it. Is that much current needed to generate salt? At this point , there shouldn't be anything left to replace!
So I guess my question is, is this normal operation?
Thanks.