Hey all,
I'm having trouble with my pool/spa settings that I didn't have with my first two years with my pool. I have a Pentair EasyTouch remote, and I used to be able to press the spa button to get the spa heating up and ready for use, regardless of the position of my other valves. Now, for some reason, if I have my returns set to go to both pool and spa, as soon as I activate the spa on the remote, my water level drops and will empty the spa within about 15 minutes. We had some issues with really cold weather over the winter, and my pool service company may have switched some of my automatic valve settings, but they claim not to know what's going on.
There is an automatic valve that opens the spa drains all the way when activated. If I change my manual valve so that all of my water is returning to the spa, then the hot tub will stay filled when activated. Leaving the pool returns closed is obviously not ideal. I do get water into the pool via the spillway from the hot tub, but I'd like to be able to use some of the water features on the pool which require some water return to the pool.
My thought is that there must be some way to only partially open or close the spa drain, so that the ins match the outs when the spa is off as well as when it is on, rather than having the drains open or closed completely. I've tried sorting this out with the Pentair manual, but it gets really confusing really fast! Does anyone have some quick tips on changing setting for the automatic valves with this system? Hopefully, this shouldn't be too hard, since it has worked this way properly in the past! Thanks in advance!
I'm having trouble with my pool/spa settings that I didn't have with my first two years with my pool. I have a Pentair EasyTouch remote, and I used to be able to press the spa button to get the spa heating up and ready for use, regardless of the position of my other valves. Now, for some reason, if I have my returns set to go to both pool and spa, as soon as I activate the spa on the remote, my water level drops and will empty the spa within about 15 minutes. We had some issues with really cold weather over the winter, and my pool service company may have switched some of my automatic valve settings, but they claim not to know what's going on.
There is an automatic valve that opens the spa drains all the way when activated. If I change my manual valve so that all of my water is returning to the spa, then the hot tub will stay filled when activated. Leaving the pool returns closed is obviously not ideal. I do get water into the pool via the spillway from the hot tub, but I'd like to be able to use some of the water features on the pool which require some water return to the pool.
My thought is that there must be some way to only partially open or close the spa drain, so that the ins match the outs when the spa is off as well as when it is on, rather than having the drains open or closed completely. I've tried sorting this out with the Pentair manual, but it gets really confusing really fast! Does anyone have some quick tips on changing setting for the automatic valves with this system? Hopefully, this shouldn't be too hard, since it has worked this way properly in the past! Thanks in advance!