Installed my first IC60 in Apr 2019. In Sept 2022 the green flashing CLEAN CELL light came on even though I had just cleaned it with plastic tools, no acid bath. Thought it was dead, so I put it on a shelf and ordered another IC60 to replace it. The other day, I spotted it on the shelf and thought to myself that I never did clean it with acid. So I did the acid cleaning per Pentair instructions and threw in a new Flow Sensor just for the heck of it. Replaced my current IC60 with it and low and behold it has been running fine for 10 hours now with strong chlorine bubbles coming out of the return line.
There must have been something between the plates that caused the cell to think it was still dirty, but nothing I could visually see.
So the moral of this story is do not discard your Intellitouch because of the flashing CLEAN CELL light until you have acid cleaned it. That was a $1400 dollar mistake (now would be $1900 dollar mistake. At least, now I have a backup IC60!
As a side note, I pressed the MORE button on the old IC60 for 3 seconds and only 1 runtime LED displayed. Given it's age I would have thought it should have reported more runtime hours than that.
Does anyone know it the hours reported by the cell are actual hours that the cell is producing Chlorine, or the number of hours the unit has been powered on?
Gary (has been a while since my last post)
There must have been something between the plates that caused the cell to think it was still dirty, but nothing I could visually see.
So the moral of this story is do not discard your Intellitouch because of the flashing CLEAN CELL light until you have acid cleaned it. That was a $1400 dollar mistake (now would be $1900 dollar mistake. At least, now I have a backup IC60!
As a side note, I pressed the MORE button on the old IC60 for 3 seconds and only 1 runtime LED displayed. Given it's age I would have thought it should have reported more runtime hours than that.
Does anyone know it the hours reported by the cell are actual hours that the cell is producing Chlorine, or the number of hours the unit has been powered on?
Gary (has been a while since my last post)
