Hi all, I had a few questions about my pool that was built and filled just about a year ago. Pool equipment should be in signature aside from the A&A heads/IFCS I have, but I’ll also drop pictures of my setup and chemical levels at the bottom of my post for reference. Also wanted to mention that my original IC40 cell randomly died a few months ago, and I just had a new one installed 2 days ago under warranty.
I’ve noticed that the flow light for my cell will be red unless I put the pump RPM pretty high, like to around 2100 RPM. This means that when I have the “cleaning” mode on for my pool, which sets the RPM to 2900 to have the IFCS heads rotating and popping up fully, that is the only time the SWG is generating chlorine. I currently have that mode set to run from 11 am-3 pm and 7 pm-10 pm since peak electricity hours are from 3-7 pm and it seems like 7 hours total has been enough to keep the pool clean. When the “cleaning” mode isn’t on, I have the pump usually running at 1500 RPM for the rest of the day.
1. Is it okay to only have the SWG generating chlorine for those 7 hours and to have the flow light red for the rest of the time assuming I can calculate what % to set my SWG at for adequate chlorine production on a daily basis?
2. Do I possibly have a bad flow switch or something else going on if the RPM really needs to be that high to register flow?
3. Like I said before, when the RPM drops to 1500 and the IFCS heads aren’t popping up and rotating anymore, is the pool still getting proper circulation? You’ll notice from the plumbing that although I have an option to use the wall returns, the SWG is plumbed to only go through the IFCS heads, AND I’d have to manually switch the valve to change to wall returns.
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pH 7.8
FC 7
CH 300 (planning on raising to around 500 to help maintain good CSI levels -0.3-0)
TA 60
CYA 80
Salt 3000
I’ve noticed that the flow light for my cell will be red unless I put the pump RPM pretty high, like to around 2100 RPM. This means that when I have the “cleaning” mode on for my pool, which sets the RPM to 2900 to have the IFCS heads rotating and popping up fully, that is the only time the SWG is generating chlorine. I currently have that mode set to run from 11 am-3 pm and 7 pm-10 pm since peak electricity hours are from 3-7 pm and it seems like 7 hours total has been enough to keep the pool clean. When the “cleaning” mode isn’t on, I have the pump usually running at 1500 RPM for the rest of the day.
1. Is it okay to only have the SWG generating chlorine for those 7 hours and to have the flow light red for the rest of the time assuming I can calculate what % to set my SWG at for adequate chlorine production on a daily basis?
2. Do I possibly have a bad flow switch or something else going on if the RPM really needs to be that high to register flow?
3. Like I said before, when the RPM drops to 1500 and the IFCS heads aren’t popping up and rotating anymore, is the pool still getting proper circulation? You’ll notice from the plumbing that although I have an option to use the wall returns, the SWG is plumbed to only go through the IFCS heads, AND I’d have to manually switch the valve to change to wall returns.
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pH 7.8
FC 7
CH 300 (planning on raising to around 500 to help maintain good CSI levels -0.3-0)
TA 60
CYA 80
Salt 3000
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