My pool (see sig) is about 2 months old. After the first month I started adding salt (slowly) to bring the level up to 3200-3400. Note that I use a PH meter (Safedip) for routine PH measurement and that also gives me a salt reading. Using the silver nitrate test in my TF-100 kit always matches the safe dip meter within 100 ppm or so. Today they are both showing 3400. The salt reading from the IC-40 is (for the past 2-3 weeks) is a bit more random, coming in at 3150 to 3500. These reading have been stable for several weeks. Al the other numbers look good. CYA is a bit low for a salt pool, since I was running LC for the first month, but my plan is to bring those up slowly now that I have the SWG close to dialed in.
Now here is the change. Yesterday the electrician was over to migrate my MasterTemp heater to RS-485 control. When they put it in initially they were just using 2 wires to the fireman switch, so they had to add the RS485 cable and rejumper the fireman switch. Heater is working fine now. Nothing else was touched, though of course the system was shut down while doing the work.
The problem - the IC-40 is showing high salt - 4450 right now. I have reset the SWG 3 or 4 times since then and it always gets readings above 4000(!). This is clearly wrong. We do seem to be making chlorine, I can see the bubbles and my FC numbers are staying up, or even climbing a litltle, but the high salt warning is present on the SWG. No alarm at the Intellicenter.
The question - what am I looking at, and what should I do to troubleshoot further? Should I pull the cell and clean it? Sit on it for a week and see what happens? Try and get pentair support involved?
Your thoughts and advice apreciated.
Thanks!
Dale
Now here is the change. Yesterday the electrician was over to migrate my MasterTemp heater to RS-485 control. When they put it in initially they were just using 2 wires to the fireman switch, so they had to add the RS485 cable and rejumper the fireman switch. Heater is working fine now. Nothing else was touched, though of course the system was shut down while doing the work.
The problem - the IC-40 is showing high salt - 4450 right now. I have reset the SWG 3 or 4 times since then and it always gets readings above 4000(!). This is clearly wrong. We do seem to be making chlorine, I can see the bubbles and my FC numbers are staying up, or even climbing a litltle, but the high salt warning is present on the SWG. No alarm at the Intellicenter.
The question - what am I looking at, and what should I do to troubleshoot further? Should I pull the cell and clean it? Sit on it for a week and see what happens? Try and get pentair support involved?
Your thoughts and advice apreciated.
Thanks!
Dale
