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[bob22]

My daughter just bought a house with an in ground pool, Hayward DE-filter with a Jandy gas-fired heater.
I took a picture of an obvious problem circled below:

This connection (the end fitting the tubing goes into onto the PVC) is broken.
Two questions:
1. what does this hose do?
2. How to fix it. I presume buying another end but no idea what to search for.
Thanks in advance!

 

[HermanTX]

My daughter just bought a house with an in ground pool, Hayward DE-filter with a Jandy gas-fired heater.
I took a picture of an obvious problem circled below:
View attachment 320044
This connection (the end fitting the tubing goes into onto the PVC) is broken.
Two questions:
1. what does this hose do?
2. How to fix it. I presume buying another end but no idea what to search for.
Thanks in advance!

This is interesting as on my first view I thought it to be a temperature probe. However, I see the opposite end connects to the return pipe with same type of fitting. Is this an electrical wire this? Or is this a hose and if you turn on the pump, water leaks out? My current assumption is that it is the latter.
Sometimes an inline chlorinator would have an inlet and an outlet as shown but there would be a piece of equipment (called an chlorinator) where chlorine pucks are added. It appears that the chlorinator could have been removed and they just connected the 2 ports together with a hose.

See the link

Pentair Rainbow 300 Off-Line Automatic Chlorine & Bromine Feeder - R171016 - INYOPools.com

R171016 - Rainbow 300 Offline Chlorinator

www.inyopools.com

 

[bob22]

I thought the same about it being a chlorine injector or something but it seems to connect one pipe to another and at an ID of < 1/4”, it can’t provide much volume. Perhaps it does something with air or pressure balancing?

 

[Jimrahbe]

Bob,

It does nothing now.. I agree with Herman, this used to be connected to something else.. You can just plug both holes or install a new hose.. Either way, it is not going to hurt anything.

Thanks,

Jim R.

 

[HermanTX]

I thought the same about it being a chlorine injector or something but it seems to connect one pipe to another and at an ID of < 1/4”, it can’t provide much volume. Perhaps it does something with air or pressure balancing?

The way the external chlorinator works is that pressure from the pump forces water through that small diameter tube into a cylinder that is holding chlorine pucks. The pucks erode with the flow and continue to exit to the port on the return line to chlorinator the pool. It all works off of the pump pressure.
As @Jimrahbe said. They do nothing now and best just to put a plug in each end. My guess is that the hole in the pipe is not threaded so they could not plug it directly so they just put the tube there to join the 2 ports. You should be able to place saddle clamp on each port to plug it.

 

[bob22]

Thanks!
As the port broke and not the tubing, I'll have to saddle clamp them closed.
Is there one ready-made for PVC? I'm only aware of those for copper tubing and iron pipe.
I can make them up with screw drive clamps, silicone sealer, and some rubber sheet good if not.

 

[hwy17]

Both are placed ok to just cut them out and put in a coupler.