Red Flow light on this morning

[mikeqf]

Good morning everyone! We've been having a great year with our second summer having a pool, seeing good test results and clear water. Yesterday I noticed a little cloudiness, however, and when checking things out this morning I noticed the flow light was solid red on our iChlor 30. The salt light was green. The Intelliflo VS was running at level 2 (2100RPM) when I looked at it. After checking the skimmer and pump baskets (minimal stuff in them), I turned level 1 back on (3000RPM), and the flow and cell lights immediately went green. I've left it running there to keep things going and am about to do tests to see where levels are at.

I wondered if any of you had recommendations for what I should be checking first to see what the issue is. Thanks!

BTW, This is our second iChlor - the first had a failed flow sensor and the installer replaced the whole unit this spring. Diagnostics on it show what I believe are normal numbers - 325hrs, 87 degrees, 3354 salt level.

 

[mknauss]

Check your filter. I suspect it needs backwashing.

Check the pressure at your normal flow rate. If 25% above clean pressure, time to backwash.

 

[mikeqf]

Thank you as always for the quick and helpful reply. After posting I decided to give that a try, and though we had backwashed a few days ago, the water was looking pretty bad coming out of there. I let it run for quite a while and after restarting the pump the flow light is green right now at the lower speed. I'm refilling right now, hopefully that's all it was. Thanks again!

 

[mknauss]

I would suggest a Overnight Chlorine Loss Test tonight if you have cloudy water. You may need to follow the SLAM Process

 

[mikeqf]

I will do that, thank you again!