Hi all. I have a T-9, about 4 years old. I recently observed the salt level reading being low and not matching actually reality. Within a few days the salt cell reading dropped to 1600 and the check salt light came on.
Confirmed the cell is clean and was simply on its way out. I was now trying to determine how to proceed - to just use liquid chlorine the rest of the season (6 more weeks here before pool is closed) or buy a new cell (but then eat into my warranty period unnecessarily since the pool is closing in 6 weeks).
A senior member on here recommended to try another option to get me through the season - change the setting in the panel to a T-3 vs T-9.
I did that and did a reset. The instant salinity went up when I did that, though I had to cycle numerous times to “skip” every other salinity reading as every other reading (one side of the diode?) was very low and skewing the salt average. Long story short, I kept cycling until I got a reading above 2700.
I left it last night as all green lights and at 2800. This morning, it rose to 3,000. All green lights. I did a drop test but didn’t notice a measurable increase in FC. But…it was only about 7 hours so I will try again this morning.
Is it possible that even if I have all green lights, the cell is not producing chlorine?
How would changing the setting to T-3 impact the total FC output per day?
(I think for my size pool, the T-9 setting at 100% and pump running 24/7 produces about 3.8 a day)
Thanks for any inputs.
Confirmed the cell is clean and was simply on its way out. I was now trying to determine how to proceed - to just use liquid chlorine the rest of the season (6 more weeks here before pool is closed) or buy a new cell (but then eat into my warranty period unnecessarily since the pool is closing in 6 weeks).
A senior member on here recommended to try another option to get me through the season - change the setting in the panel to a T-3 vs T-9.
I did that and did a reset. The instant salinity went up when I did that, though I had to cycle numerous times to “skip” every other salinity reading as every other reading (one side of the diode?) was very low and skewing the salt average. Long story short, I kept cycling until I got a reading above 2700.
I left it last night as all green lights and at 2800. This morning, it rose to 3,000. All green lights. I did a drop test but didn’t notice a measurable increase in FC. But…it was only about 7 hours so I will try again this morning.
Is it possible that even if I have all green lights, the cell is not producing chlorine?
How would changing the setting to T-3 impact the total FC output per day?
(I think for my size pool, the T-9 setting at 100% and pump running 24/7 produces about 3.8 a day)
Thanks for any inputs.
