Didn't want to bump a thread from almost 2 months ago: Cannot get my SWG to work properly (and selling my house!)!)
I've been having trouble with my SWG. Thought it was dead.. Here are my notes, In the previous thread I was told my method of testing or something is up. That's probably true but i'm still trying to figure it out.
6/11 - Accidentally left house on all night and diluted everything the night before.
6/13 - 5:30pm my salt level tested 1800-1900, I added about 200lbs of 'pool salt' after checking pool math and it shouldve been around 3300 (optimal is 3250-3450 I believe). Previous years I used natural salt from Lowes, this stuff was from a different store.
6/14 - 8pm salt tested at around 3500ppm so I thought I was good, but thats when I noticed SWG would not run right. I thought i'd give it some time for salt level to go down in case it was too high.
------- Used liquid chlorine in between.
7/23 - I tested the salt and it said 3900! I had not added anymore
8/3 - I tested it last night and the test strip said 4300! I've never had issues with these test strips. They are the AquaChek 561140A from amazon.
Somewhere in there the past month I tried cleaning any debris out of the cell, cleaning in acid again, and cleaned the electrical connections where each thing plugs in with no luck.
9/27 - 9pm, I did get some new Aquachek test strips from Amazon (I had gotten some cheapy ones from walmart and they were reading pretty high as well). The brand new test strips read 3700ppm. I have backwashed and added water since the last date, the salt level should be lower than that.
- I did learn about the bucket trick, I took a 5 gal bucket and put the SWG in it. Holding the flow switch I was able to perform a test and it produced chlorine until it flashed low salt again.
9/28 - Today just for the heck of it I threw a handful of salt in the bucket and waited a few hours. I also tried taking off the control box, heard there was a fuse in there, but on the backside it has a tri-wing head security screw and i'm not sure if I have a bit for it. Anyways the test showed salt okay and I was able to turn the SWG on and produce chlorine! I tested the water and it read about ~5400 ppm... I even tried a new container incase my test tubes are tainted but still read the same.
Cliffs: Salt has been reading high. Bought a new set of Aquachek strips, still high. In a bucket with extra salt thrown in, the SWG is working, but the reading im getting if ~5400ppm from the test strips (my SWG does not read out salt level).
Any ideas what is going on?? There is no way the salt level could still be that high. Ive been using these types of strips for 4 seasons with no issues.
I'm going to go hook the SWG back up to the pool and see what happens. I don't even know how much salt to add. I may just add a little at a time to see if I can get working again while hooked up normally.
I've been having trouble with my SWG. Thought it was dead.. Here are my notes, In the previous thread I was told my method of testing or something is up. That's probably true but i'm still trying to figure it out.
6/11 - Accidentally left house on all night and diluted everything the night before.
6/13 - 5:30pm my salt level tested 1800-1900, I added about 200lbs of 'pool salt' after checking pool math and it shouldve been around 3300 (optimal is 3250-3450 I believe). Previous years I used natural salt from Lowes, this stuff was from a different store.
6/14 - 8pm salt tested at around 3500ppm so I thought I was good, but thats when I noticed SWG would not run right. I thought i'd give it some time for salt level to go down in case it was too high.
------- Used liquid chlorine in between.
7/23 - I tested the salt and it said 3900! I had not added anymore
8/3 - I tested it last night and the test strip said 4300! I've never had issues with these test strips. They are the AquaChek 561140A from amazon.
Somewhere in there the past month I tried cleaning any debris out of the cell, cleaning in acid again, and cleaned the electrical connections where each thing plugs in with no luck.
9/27 - 9pm, I did get some new Aquachek test strips from Amazon (I had gotten some cheapy ones from walmart and they were reading pretty high as well). The brand new test strips read 3700ppm. I have backwashed and added water since the last date, the salt level should be lower than that.
- I did learn about the bucket trick, I took a 5 gal bucket and put the SWG in it. Holding the flow switch I was able to perform a test and it produced chlorine until it flashed low salt again.
9/28 - Today just for the heck of it I threw a handful of salt in the bucket and waited a few hours. I also tried taking off the control box, heard there was a fuse in there, but on the backside it has a tri-wing head security screw and i'm not sure if I have a bit for it. Anyways the test showed salt okay and I was able to turn the SWG on and produce chlorine! I tested the water and it read about ~5400 ppm... I even tried a new container incase my test tubes are tainted but still read the same.
Cliffs: Salt has been reading high. Bought a new set of Aquachek strips, still high. In a bucket with extra salt thrown in, the SWG is working, but the reading im getting if ~5400ppm from the test strips (my SWG does not read out salt level).
Any ideas what is going on?? There is no way the salt level could still be that high. Ive been using these types of strips for 4 seasons with no issues.
I'm going to go hook the SWG back up to the pool and see what happens. I don't even know how much salt to add. I may just add a little at a time to see if I can get working again while hooked up normally.
