Integrating IntelliPH (and/or) IntelliChem with Intellicenter

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Neoex

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Greetings all I just got my pool up(details in signature) and running and purchased IntelliPH to go along with intellicenter and intellichlor. And what I think I have realized is that IntelliPH is actually StupidDumba**PH, this product has no clue what the PH is in the pool, (how they could call it intelligent is beyond me) and just inserts acid at an interval I dictate. I told my pool builder I wanted to be able to see what my PH and other "pool chemical" stats.


He advised IntelliChem would provide that, but admitted he hasn't had much success if ANY with smaller residential pools and it ends up almost being more of a nightmare than provide value on small residential pools.


Question 1. Has anyone got an IntelliChem with the FLOWCELL + sensors to just "monitor" their pool? and not actually inject chemical?
Question 2. Can IntelliChem through Intellicenter use IntelliPH to inject acid?
Question 3. Somewhat unrelated, inside my phone app under Chemistry for IntelliChlor I have something at the bottom called Salt Level, but it seems "empty", or blank, should I expect some value to be populated. Screenshot attached
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For #3, it should unless your water is too cold to produce chlorine. What’s your current temp, and is your IC40 giving you a low temp error?

I have IntelliCenter and IntelliPH. IntelliPH and Intellichlor are both “dumb”..they relay on you testing and then determine run times. You can change the IC40’s % using an app, so that is better than IntelliPH which you need to go to the control panel. I don’t know about Intellichem. I think the feedback is mixed as the sensors are not very reliable.
 
The pH side of the intelliChem is actually pretty accurate and it does a decent job maintaining the pH. The downside though is regular testing is still required to make sure the pH probe and dosing is doing what it's supposed to be doing and replacement sensors are expensive.

The chlorine sensing side uses ORP which has proven to be very problematic and unreliable in all pools except those that are covered and have CYA levels below 20-30ppm.... even then the are still issues.

The flow metering requires higher than ideal flow rates which means wasted electricity.
 
bdavis466 said:
The pH side of the intelliChem is actually pretty accurate and it does a decent job maintaining the pH. The downside though is regular testing is still required to make sure the pH probe and dosing is doing what it's supposed to be doing and replacement sensors are expensive.

The chlorine sensing side uses ORP which has proven to be very problematic and unreliable in all pools except those that are covered and have CYA levels below 20-30ppm.... even then the are still issues.

The flow metering requires higher than ideal flow rates which means wasted electricity.
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Can intelliChem leverage the existing IntelliPH to disburse acid, or would you need an additional pump/container and basically intelliPH becomes useless?
 
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