Disabled Pentair SWCG but it still produced chlorine

[bertschb]

So I had my water all nice and balanced when we had a short stint of "cooler" weather and I decided to cover my pool for three days. I knew that would raise my FC but I didn't realize how much (I'm a rookie after all). In order to bring FC back down I disabled my IC40 from the EasyTouch panel from 7:00AM until 5:00PM yesterday. That was 10 hours out of my pumps 14 hour run time. That oughta do it, right? Nope! I checked FC again this morning and it was the same as yesterday morning. What the heck? Sooooo, I disabled the IC40 again. After thinking about it a bit more I walked over and looked at my cell and sure enough, the "Cell" light was green which means it's producing chlorine. So, I cranked the output down to 0% AND disabled it. Hopefully that will work.

Has anybody else disabled their Pentair SWCG from the EasyTouch panel and still had it produce chlorine??? Is this a bug?

 

[mknauss]

How did you 'disable' it?

 

[Jimrahbe]

Brian,

Disabling the SWCG on an EasyTouch only makes the EasyTouch not realize that the cell is installed. The cell will continue to work as if it were a standalone unit.

If you need to turn it off, you need to set the output to zero or remove the power from the SWCG's transformer.

Thanks,

Jim R.

 

[bertschb]

Disabling the SWCG on an EasyTouch only makes the EasyTouch not realize that the cell is installed.

Jim

The more I think about it, the more I realize the term "Enabled" probably is the best choice when you consider the individual components are part of a system. I was considering just the cell and though of it as being enabled or disabled.

Thanks for clarifying it.
-Brian

 

[bertschb]

How did you 'disable' it?

Hi Marty

I "disabled" it from the EasyTouch panel as shown below but as Jim pointed out, all that did was disconnect the cell from the panel. It was still producing chlorine because I had it set at 26% at that time. I figure another ten years or so of pool ownership and I'll have things figured out!