High amps and low salt on new T-15 Salt Cell

May 27, 2016
16
Virginia Beach
Pool Size
30000
SWG Type
Hayward Turbo Cell (T-CELL-5)
Hello,
I recently purchased a new salt cell because I thought that mine was going bad due to the low salt readings on my aqua plus system. It was reading high amps and low salt of 1900, and the pool store told me I had a 3700ppm, which is close to what I had a week ago when it was working properly. I have attached a picture of the readings and based on my searches around this site it seems I have a loose solder on my k1 relay since the new salt cell did not fix my problem. I have previously soldered this relay as I had no Power so I went to check everything and it all looked OK. I added some solder and tried it again anyway. Still the same issue. I then went to take the board off found the yellow wires that hook into the board were melted. They still had their connections but the outer cover of the wire was brittle. I cut the wire down a little to make a better connection, but it didn't help anything. Any reason why the yellow wires might have melted(picture attached)? Could it have anything to do with my issue?
 

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