A little over a year ago, my 8 year old salt cell died. I replaced it and its been fine until last week. I went on vacation on turned the salt cell and pump off while we were gone. When I returned and fired everything back up, the salt cell was not working.
I checked the fuse at the power supply/transformer and sure enough it was blown. I replaced it and the fuse holder plastic went to Crud, so I installed an inline 10A blade fuse. Fired it back up and it ran for a few minuted before that fuse popped.
Yesterday I removed the salt cell to see if cleaning it would help. The blades were perfectly clean, but I cleaned it with muriatic acid anyway to be sure. Reinstalled it, changed the fuse, and that fuse popped within a few minutes too.
So in my limited knowledge, I feel like I've checked all the potential cheap fixes that I know of. I hate the idea of having to buy a new salt cell and then figuring out that it was the power supply or visa versa.
So to the experts here is there anything else I should check before investing another $1k on a salt cell after doing the same last summer?
I checked the fuse at the power supply/transformer and sure enough it was blown. I replaced it and the fuse holder plastic went to Crud, so I installed an inline 10A blade fuse. Fired it back up and it ran for a few minuted before that fuse popped.
Yesterday I removed the salt cell to see if cleaning it would help. The blades were perfectly clean, but I cleaned it with muriatic acid anyway to be sure. Reinstalled it, changed the fuse, and that fuse popped within a few minutes too.
So in my limited knowledge, I feel like I've checked all the potential cheap fixes that I know of. I hate the idea of having to buy a new salt cell and then figuring out that it was the power supply or visa versa.
So to the experts here is there anything else I should check before investing another $1k on a salt cell after doing the same last summer?
