First off, this is a great site! I'm completely impressed with this forum. This post is a bit long, but as with pools, please be patient with me. I recently purchased a house that has a salt water pool installed in 2006. The pool was green and needed help. I have since cleaned up the pool as its blue, but still a bit cloudy. I had to manually shock the pool and it does not seem like the SWG can keep up with the demands of the pool.
My issue is with my Zodiac LM2-24 SWG. It will not go above the lowest setting on the output. That's 1/5. The low salt light is on even though my salt content is at 4300 ppm (Zodiac recommends 4000+). The previous owner said that it never could keep up and was told that it is because the SWG is a good 40 yards from the pool. The low flow light does not come on, although it flickers a bit when I tried the superchlorinate option. The manual is most unhelpful, but does suggest that it may be because of low main voltage.
The piping on the pool is 1 1/2 inch with a 1.5HP pump and sand filter with a clean pressure of 18psi. The approx distances that the water needs to flow is:
inlet to pump/filter = ~20 yards
pump to heater/SWG = ~60 yards
SWG to outlet = ~40 yards
The outlets seem to have some pretty good flow and the low flow light is not on, so I'm not sure I believe the previous owner that it is the distance that is the issue.
I called Zodiac and someone is supposed to come, but never has. I called when I was having trouble turning the unit on or off during backflush and at a point only the superchlorinate option would work.
Am I missing something.
Here is my current water balance:
FC: 3.0
PH: 7.4
Salt: 4300
TA: 110
CH: 350
CYA: 30
I will likely increase the CYA to about 60 over the next week, but would really like to know how to make the output higher than the lowest setting.
My issue is with my Zodiac LM2-24 SWG. It will not go above the lowest setting on the output. That's 1/5. The low salt light is on even though my salt content is at 4300 ppm (Zodiac recommends 4000+). The previous owner said that it never could keep up and was told that it is because the SWG is a good 40 yards from the pool. The low flow light does not come on, although it flickers a bit when I tried the superchlorinate option. The manual is most unhelpful, but does suggest that it may be because of low main voltage.
The piping on the pool is 1 1/2 inch with a 1.5HP pump and sand filter with a clean pressure of 18psi. The approx distances that the water needs to flow is:
inlet to pump/filter = ~20 yards
pump to heater/SWG = ~60 yards
SWG to outlet = ~40 yards
The outlets seem to have some pretty good flow and the low flow light is not on, so I'm not sure I believe the previous owner that it is the distance that is the issue.
I called Zodiac and someone is supposed to come, but never has. I called when I was having trouble turning the unit on or off during backflush and at a point only the superchlorinate option would work.
Am I missing something.
Here is my current water balance:
FC: 3.0
PH: 7.4
Salt: 4300
TA: 110
CH: 350
CYA: 30
I will likely increase the CYA to about 60 over the next week, but would really like to know how to make the output higher than the lowest setting.