Twindad from South Florida.

[Twindad04]

Hello all, I'm new to this forum and honestly didn't know it existed until I started to research how to fix my Goldline Aqua rite salt chlorinator. As mentioned in the title, I live in south Florida (Jupiter). I have a 9,500+ gallon fiberglass pool, which I installed myself two years ago, (except for the concrete surround, which holds the pool down and in place). As previously mentioned, it has a salt chlorinator that has crapped the bed. The power light never comes on, but it will power up with no power LED and go through the no flow sequence, then all LED's go dark, but the LCD still has readings. I have purchased an aftermarket control board for $200 on Amazon, which has yet to arrive, but it would seem now that I've read a few posts on the matter, that my old board may be repairable by replacing the thermister. We shall see. Anyway, I know this is the introduction thread but I wanted to give a little bit of info as to why I'm on the board. Once I get the salt generator sorted out I need to tackle the battle with algae I seem to be constantly having. I guess that's what you deal with when your pool temp is 85 deg. + during the summer.

 

[mknauss]

Welcome to the forum!

I suggest you read through Pool Care Basics - Trouble Free Pool and even look at a few of our videos TFP-TV - Trouble Free Pool

 

[wireform]

Algae has nothing to do with the temps you mentioned but everything to do with the links posted by @mknauss ^^^^^^.
I'll start off with my first question, how are you testing? That's probably where you losing the battle besides taking advice from pool stores.

 

[Twindad04]

I am using test strips from Home depot, also I check my salt generator reading for salt levels using salt test strips as well (both were recommended by a tech that worked for a local pool company). I had a freshwater pool like 18 years ago and used a very expensive chemical test kit, and still had issues with algae (admittedly not as bad as now). I think my biggest problem is that I don't have time to do much in the way of maintenance during the week so by the time the weekend rolls around I'm starting to have problems and I have many other things to do other than vacuuming algae out of the pool.. Funny thing though, is that my neighbor has a similar sized fresh water pool and has a pool company who only come out once a week, and his pool is crystal clear almost all the time. So I'm sure I'm being stupid about something. As previously mentioned, my chlorine generator is on the fritz (for about two weeks now) and I have algae blooms cropping up within two days after shocking and vacuuming.

 

[mknauss]

You need a proper test kit. I suggest the TF-100/Pro or Taylor K2006C. A proper test kit is needed to get the accurate water chemistry results needed to follow the TFP protocols.