Hey all, here's a little background leading up to our current situation.
Move into a new (to us) home with a pool built-in 2018. The previous owner tells me the pool is maintained by someone that does "everything" and requires nothing from me but enjoying the pool. Sounds great to me! I know ZERO about pools, by the way.
Over time, we notice that the pool water is discoloring our clothes, towels, etc. I take the water to get tested and the guy tells me the chlorine is so high that he wouldn't let my kid swim in the pool. I notice the pool guy dumping liquid chlorine into the pool and later that day we can smell chlorine just walking by the pool.
A few weeks later I take another sample to the pool store and he tells me there is no chlorine in the water, the calcium is very high, and the salt is somewhere over 5,000. I do recall being able to taste salt in the water.
I drained a couple of feet of water and refilled. I am learning and taking care of the pool myself now. I am just getting started with attempting to fix everything. We're not using the pool and that's no good! I want our pool back, I just want it to be right!
The desired output was set to about 80% and Super Chlorinate, with only the Inspect Cell light blinking and Salt display showing 3900 during all of the above.
Where I'm at now:
I removed the salt cell and it wasn't dirty at all. I've done the Taylor K1766 test 4 times now, indoors, per the instructions, using manual stirring and the Smart Stir that came with the TF-100. 19 drops, so 3800.
Why is my Blue Essence indicating as follows?
- Check Salt: Solid Red indicating salt too low and shut down.
- Inspect Cell: Solid Amber indicating stopped producing chlorine.
- Salt Display: 1600
- Temp: 76
- Cell Voltage: 31.6
- Cell Current: 0.00
- Desired Output: 100P
- Instant Salinity -0
- Product Name: AL - 0
- Software Version: r1.59
- Cell Type: t-5
With regard to the Blue Essence, is this as simple as needing a new salt cell? I have no reason to suspect any of my pool's chemistry is correct if this can play into these funky readings.
If I need a new cell, does anyone have any recommendations on where to get one? Mine is the BEX-CELL-20. My panel looks like an Aqua Rite Panel but is branded Blue Essence.
My next step is to conduct the other tests as soon as I have time but I also want to have a plan so as to not waste time and money doing something out of order.
Thanks!
Move into a new (to us) home with a pool built-in 2018. The previous owner tells me the pool is maintained by someone that does "everything" and requires nothing from me but enjoying the pool. Sounds great to me! I know ZERO about pools, by the way.
Over time, we notice that the pool water is discoloring our clothes, towels, etc. I take the water to get tested and the guy tells me the chlorine is so high that he wouldn't let my kid swim in the pool. I notice the pool guy dumping liquid chlorine into the pool and later that day we can smell chlorine just walking by the pool.
A few weeks later I take another sample to the pool store and he tells me there is no chlorine in the water, the calcium is very high, and the salt is somewhere over 5,000. I do recall being able to taste salt in the water.
I drained a couple of feet of water and refilled. I am learning and taking care of the pool myself now. I am just getting started with attempting to fix everything. We're not using the pool and that's no good! I want our pool back, I just want it to be right!
The desired output was set to about 80% and Super Chlorinate, with only the Inspect Cell light blinking and Salt display showing 3900 during all of the above.
Where I'm at now:
I removed the salt cell and it wasn't dirty at all. I've done the Taylor K1766 test 4 times now, indoors, per the instructions, using manual stirring and the Smart Stir that came with the TF-100. 19 drops, so 3800.
Why is my Blue Essence indicating as follows?
- Check Salt: Solid Red indicating salt too low and shut down.
- Inspect Cell: Solid Amber indicating stopped producing chlorine.
- Salt Display: 1600
- Temp: 76
- Cell Voltage: 31.6
- Cell Current: 0.00
- Desired Output: 100P
- Instant Salinity -0
- Product Name: AL - 0
- Software Version: r1.59
- Cell Type: t-5
With regard to the Blue Essence, is this as simple as needing a new salt cell? I have no reason to suspect any of my pool's chemistry is correct if this can play into these funky readings.
If I need a new cell, does anyone have any recommendations on where to get one? Mine is the BEX-CELL-20. My panel looks like an Aqua Rite Panel but is branded Blue Essence.
My next step is to conduct the other tests as soon as I have time but I also want to have a plan so as to not waste time and money doing something out of order.
Thanks!
