our Hayward salt cell panel has been giving us problems the past few months. It's often told us that it is not chlorinating pool, check salt level, very low salt level. I test my own salt and we're fine with salt, if not more than I wanted as hubbie didn't hear me when I said "add 1/2 the bag" mths back just to see if a bit more acid would help and he added the whole bag. Been back and forth boggled as it would still seem to produce chlorine, but this time it's not seeming to produce chlorine. Getting tired of checking the cell every 2 mths to find there is no calcium build up and pool store tells us it's not under warranty like they told us it would be since we did not have them "install" it for us! Who would pay a pool company to "install" a salt cell?!
pool/panel are about 5 yrs old, we're on Cell #3. We used to have a Hayward but were told "jacuzzi" brand (Leslie Pool's brand) had a better warranty and was much cheaper. ,
We need to treat our salt pool like it's chlorine for now which I've never had to do. We are about to empty pool when temp cools down so pb can do some repairs. We could wait for them to look at cell, but they'll prob want us to change out whole panel or something $$. Or any hunches on if there's something we should do to look at this on our own? Where would we start or do we let pb deal with it so to not electrocute ourselves? My husband read about some kind of flow switch but that doesn't make much sense to me on how it would effect the cell to not work.
Also, for now, since I'm emptying pool and CYA is on lower end, anyway, should I buy some tabs or is it just as cheap to use liquid chlorine or shock? My thought is tabs would prob be easier to not miss adding, but which is cheaper, also? We might need to "convert" to a reg chlorine pool for a mth or until temps get cold enough to not need chlorine.
thx!
pool/panel are about 5 yrs old, we're on Cell #3. We used to have a Hayward but were told "jacuzzi" brand (Leslie Pool's brand) had a better warranty and was much cheaper. ,
We need to treat our salt pool like it's chlorine for now which I've never had to do. We are about to empty pool when temp cools down so pb can do some repairs. We could wait for them to look at cell, but they'll prob want us to change out whole panel or something $$. Or any hunches on if there's something we should do to look at this on our own? Where would we start or do we let pb deal with it so to not electrocute ourselves? My husband read about some kind of flow switch but that doesn't make much sense to me on how it would effect the cell to not work.
Also, for now, since I'm emptying pool and CYA is on lower end, anyway, should I buy some tabs or is it just as cheap to use liquid chlorine or shock? My thought is tabs would prob be easier to not miss adding, but which is cheaper, also? We might need to "convert" to a reg chlorine pool for a mth or until temps get cold enough to not need chlorine.
thx!
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