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I wouldn’t worry about the treated water having Neutra7 in it. It’s just an acid-base buffer used to correct the pH imbalance of acidic water supplies. It won’t affect your hot tub chemistry much at all.

Yeah. You definitely want to close a pool when the water temp gets below 60F and you should definitely bring it up to SLAM level. Otherwise …. pea soup awaits you … maybe you shouldn’t be the one rectifying the mess 😉 Some light reading for your hubs -...

what was you CYA level when you closed the pool last year? A zero CYA reading with smelly green water could potentially mean ammonia is present. That will make slamming the pool all the more hard.

And check all the wiring harnesses … rats and critters LOVE to chew up wiring … it’s like Twizzlers to them …

It’s unusual for fan motors to die. If the fan spins freely and easily and there’s no shorts to ground on the coil, then it’s unlikely it’s the fan. I would look at the contactor next. They are mechanical and if anything looks charred or burnt, replace the contactor. They take a beating...

Unless you have a meter with a capacitor tester on it, you can’t really know for sure if it’s good. It doesn’t take much sag on a capacitor for it to stop working. The only other way to test them is to monitor the peak voltage at startup (again, you need a good meter for that with a...

Is to combo capacitor, meaning there’s a COMMON, FAN, and HERM connection? Herm is the compressor. You have to test all sides of the cap. One could be done and the other could be dead.

I do believe even the “old” master temp (my 2013 MasterTemp qualifies as “old”) had a cool down built into the controls in the sense that the blower runs for a few minutes after the call for heat ends and the heater will not fire up again for a few minutes after the end of a heating cycle to let...

There are ways that you can "hack" your EasyTouch panel to add additional relays ... BUT ... it requires you to be comfortable doing some "light" low voltage electrical rewiring. Basically you add another 120v/24v transformer and then use any unused AUX relays to drive low voltage DPDT switch...

If you are on the desktop website you can click on the search Search box and then click on the "Advanced" tab. The advanced tab allows you to restrict the search to specific dates, usernames, etc. If you just tap the "G Search" button, it uses Google to search the forum posts and that has its...

That’s a 175 sq ft cartridge filter … I wouldn’t consider any filter on my pool less than 320sf and, when I ditch my QuadDE and convert to a cartridge it wil be a Pentair CCP 520sf cartridge filter. Bigger is always better when it comes to filters.

Calcium hypochlorite shock is know to cause temporary cloudiness and then calcium scale as it is not 100% hypochlorite but a mixture of cal hypo as well as other caustic compounds. Use of cal hypo will strongly raise the pH of the water. So, along with dead algae you could also be seeing fine...

If you want to get even better flow/energy performance … get rid of that dinky cartridge filter and upgrade to a much larger size. It’s a bit of running joke around here that you can always tell it’s a Florida pool by just looking at a picture of the filter. For some reason, FL pool builders...

So ... I'm always looking for possible problems (cuz I was trained as an engineer and there ain't no such thing as perfection ... including my grammar) and so .... Let's hear your thoughts on those actuators driving the Jandy NeverLube valves??? As I see it, those actuators are sitting right...

The biggest thing that kills heaters is having pool water that is out of balance chemically with low pH being the biggest culprit. Inline trichlor feeders are the biggest killer of heaters because they create a corrosive stew of chlorine and low pH when the pump turns off. Even though the...