frustratedpoolmom said:
Perhaps you are also vacuming to quickly... you have to move very slowly or it just gets stirred up.
:!: :!: Right on Mom. As Mom says and reworded by me, "You can't ever go too slowly vacuuming"! And change direction or lift and set vac head down as if you are doing brain surgery. :lol:
That being said, my Polaris (pressure side) zips around the pool at incredible speeds; anyone who sees it and knows the P-280 are impressed and sent home with instructions from me to check their hose screens; that usually turns out to be
their problem. AND it does stir up any
accumulation of fine debris on bottom requiring more filter time. The Aquabot (robotic) moves quite a bit slower which concerned me at first as I was used to the P-280. My new Tracker 4x (suction side through skimmer pipe) moved so slowly, compared to the other two, I thought it was defective or I didn't have enough suction. Turns out it is moving the speed it is supposed to (after a bit of lowering the vacuum on main drain to increase vacuum on skimmer ). I mean it really, really moves
SLOWLY, compared to the other two, like a very, very old feeble person,
and barely stirs up any silt when it turns around to change direction. It gets up virtually all of the silt that the other two miss and/or stir up.
BTW... when you vac up a lot of fine stuff, and want to send to filter to conserve water and chemicals instead of to waste, you may have to backwash (or clean cartridge) fairly often, maybe several times, during the vac session unless you have a fairly good sized or even over-sized filter. (I've ordered a Pentair Quad 80 sq ft, DE+cartridge, to replace my old stainless steel 36 sq ft, DE with new grids (using cellulose instead of DE though) that is in excellent condition, because of the extreme increase in silt from puppies swimming so much. Also, I can be sure the new one won't fill up so fast running it during freezing temps, especially during the night and bursting pipes or valves. Been there, done that. We normally keep pool open all year. This year has been so strange we might have many more and much lower freezing spells than usual.) (I'm also ordering a backwash SlimeBag to catch filter material and return polished waste water back to pool when I install the new valve that has vac to waste. I'm so excited. :-D )
Another issue altogether is vacuuming up larger debris. If there is a substantial amount you'll have to empty the pump pot frequently. I have lots of leaves. I just purchased a Pentair big leaf catcher that goes in line in the vacuum hose. Sure is easier to open and empty it rather than shutting off valves and emptying the pump pot. :-D
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