SWG not detecting salt

[pinguy]

This year after 8 seasons, my Aquacal Autopilot SWG cell finally gave out.

I had it replaced by the original installer, and they also said a board in the controller needed replaced, which I was originally a bit skeptical of but the entire job was still less than 7 years of chlorine.

It worked well for several weeks after the replacement, but all of a sudden the system is not detecting salt, and thus not generating chlorine.

However, the Taylor salt test shows a salt level to 3400 PPM, which is well within the operating range. I tried going through the maintenance menu and calibrating the salt level to 3400ppm, but the system is still showing 0ppm.

I have a call in with the installer, but was wondering if anyone here has seen similar.

 

[ajw22]

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[jark87]

I’m not familiar with your cell, but I had a similar issue a year or 2 ago. I thought my cell was prematurely failing, but I cleaned the sensors with rubbing alcohol and it started reading properly again. There was nothing visible on the sensors, so I was skeptical that it would work, but it did. If you have sensors that you can access, it might be worth a shot. Took me all of about 10 minutes.

 

[ajw22]

I’m not familiar with your cell, but I had a similar issue a year or 2 ago. I thought my cell was prematurely failing, but I cleaned the sensors with rubbing alcohol and it started reading properly again. There was nothing visible on the sensors, so I was skeptical that it would work, but it did. If you have sensors that you can access, it might be worth a shot. Took me all of about 10 minutes.

The autopilot system uses a trisensor like this...

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