These few weeks is high shedding from trees behind our fence (combo of those helicopter things and pollen chunky things). It constantly fills the skimmers but today it happened to fill the pump basket too. The kids are a bit older and like to empty the skimmer baskets but maybe they’re letting too much down into the pump and it can clog it. Pressure reading is normally 22 when clean but it was up at 35 which had me a bit nervous. I cleared all the baskets and pressure was back to normal quickly but it made me wonder how high is too high??
Is there a dangerous pressure level?
- Thread starter mrm1682
- Start date
- Jun 24, 2021
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- Pool Size
- 29000
- Surface
- Vinyl
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- CircuPool RJ-60 Plus
Everything you described would only be impeding the suction side of the system, meaning it would only lead to lower filter pressure. I suspect the high filter pressure was due to the need for a backwash which you probably did at the same time, hence the lowering of filter pressure.
But I didn’t backwash. All I did was shut off the pump, empty both skimmers and basket from all leaves etc then start up again and it was running back low again. Maybe I should backwash just to ensure that it’s all clear.
Water level is on the low side (lower third of skimmer) but that shouldn’t affect it. I haven’t added because it’s supposed to rain on and off next couple of days.
Water level is on the low side (lower third of skimmer) but that shouldn’t affect it. I haven’t added because it’s supposed to rain on and off next couple of days.
Yes. Goes down to zero and back to 22-24 when running which is baseline. Just checked it all now too and it’s all clean and running fine.