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I find it clumsy to deal with Pentair CCP filter band: hold everything in position while trying to assemble the 2 washers and spring to get things together. Or when taking things apart have everything go SPROING with parts flying. So here's my idea to make pool life a bit easier. Just a...

I wonder what's the best way to catch small problems that grow into big pump failures. Time and again I see threads where small leaks, usually at seals, cause big damage over time. So what's the best way to catch and fix the small stuff before it becomes big? What to look for? Stuff I've read...

Normally in mid-summer l get just a trace of CC. Adding R-003 makes just a hint of pink. I think it's the surrounding 40 foot evergreens. They're always shedding bits. Lately with the wildfires in Canada and bad air quality, thunderstorms that drop over 1/10" seem to be associated with CC...

Hi. Just a silly detail question. Usually the Taylor salt test is unambiguous: from yellow to obviously orange in one drop. This time was a bit different. The 16th drop caused a just barely noticeable orangish tinge. Then the 17th was all in: dark and obvious. The Taylor instructions are a...

Wondering about my Jandy AquaPure. Mostly just curiosity. Generally it works great. But there's weirdness every spring when I first turn it up after 0% all winter. That's December thru March. We don't close. Three years running now it shows a "low current" code (120 or 121) an hour or so after...

Hi. In case it's helpful to someone some day, here's a schematic showing how the old school (no microprocessor) JVA's work. I know there's already a wiring diagram in this excellent article.

I keep reading that CH of 250 is about right. But using PoolMath with my situation in the winter: pH 7.8 TA 60 CYA 65 Water 40F Salt 3000 It takes CH of 650 for a CSI of -.30 . By summer water will be 85F+, and CSI will be +.13. I don't like the idea of being in plus territory with a SWG...

What happens when an adventurous engineer with some bucks to spend builds a pool. Pretty interesting. wfLmIVm8P88.

Oddball question I know... I've witnessed lots of maker-style creativity in the TFP community. Wondering if anyone has given thought to attempting a full pressure side cleaner print out of PETG or something like that. Coopt Polaris bearings, tires, and some other details. Hose, too, of course...

Hello all! In North Carolina where my pool lives, owners seem to be 50/50 run all winter vs. close. I've had no success finding someone who will provide a decent cover for our pool. The last attempt was a walk-around with a guy of 30 years experience from the vendor (Myatt installer)...

Hi all. Just so no one else needs to duplicate this bit of work, here is a 3d model for the top cover of a "MAGICSTREAM® DECK JET II WATER FEATURE". Part number depends on color. Tan is 590150. Bronze is 590042. They are $40 to $70 retail. Yikes. My son-in-law printed one for me of PETG...

Hi all. People seem to post regularly saying they have trouble comparing colors for the standard pH test. Certainly color blind people must? For me 7.8 and 8.0 look almost the same. Of interest because 8.0 is my trigger to add acid. It would not be super hard to build an app that uses a phone's...

Maybe this belongs in some other forum. Kick me there if so. The grandkids love the deck jets. I'm trying to determine if it's necessary to turn off the SWG when they're on. I don't think so, but asking for second (and third...) opinions. The VSP kicks up to 90 gpm. The SWG output is 1.25...

Hi! I'm following the TFP chlorine chart, SWG tab. Currently, CYA = 70 with 5 ppm FC. All is fine. In fact I was noticing today that I can look the full pool length through 40' or so of water and see the Polaris as though it were right next to me. TFP clear! But if I were using lq, the target...

Hi all. Need help with the right way to improve wiring of my new VSP. The story... With great help here, I replaced our old 1.5 hp Whisperflo with Intelliflo VS. In the RS Aqualink box, the old pump was wired with a single 20A GFCI breaker and relay for the Whisperflo, the SWG, and the Polaris...

Recently treated myself to a Taylor SampleSizer upon getting a small bonus at work. It really is a super-quick way to get 10 and 25ml samples. I've tried it three times on three different days now, following the instructions to rinse it in pool water before use. Every time I expected FC of...

Hello all! Really appreciate the amazing kindness and skill found here. Thanks for past help. We are changing our RS Aqualink system from a single speed Whisperflo to Intelliflo VS pump. I'm trying to figure out how this will work with the Aquapure SWG, also controlled by the RS Aqualink...

Sigh... Need help from the wizards again... You guys have been soooo... helpful in the past. When our pool is in pool mode, there's zero air visible. All is fine. But in spa mode, it draws air. Easy to see in the pump basket. Clouds of bubbles from the spa returns. When I turn on the heater...

Hey all. Some weeks back I re-plumbed the equipment pad of the pool we got with the house about 18 months ago. The SWG was upstream from the heater, and I'd read that was a bad idea. Now they're in the right order. But yet another thing. The Polaris booster pump has been getting louder since...

I inherited a Mastertemp 400 with the pool when we bought our house about a year and a half ago. Sellers said the heater was two years old. I have a similar situation. With the bypass valve set to bypass, pressure is about 12lb with clean filter and jumps to 18 with the bypass sending water...

Been struggling to find someone who will install a nice, fitted cover for our pool. It's an odd shape, sandstone deck, quite narrow on 2 edges. Three companies have said they'll sell me a cover, but won't install. They are put off by the narrow sandstone. I'm pretty clueless on what to try...

I wonder if anyone has thoughts on trying silicone hose like this. I don't know how it would hold up in UV and chlorine.

HI! The older "One Touch" Aqualink RS manuals have a little blurb in one of the figures saying that if you select "Spa" in the freeze protection settings, every 30 minutes, the controls will cycle between pool and spa. But the newer iAqualink 2.0 manuals _don't_ say that, even though the "Spa"...

Hi. Bought our house this past July. The heater - Mastertemp 400 - worked fine. We used it at least once per month through November. At one point - I think in August - Error 01 (Thermistor) was a problem. I replaced that, but later found the real problem was the connector on the control board...

Hi. The pool "professional" who plumbed our SWG put it before the heater. We bought the house this past summer. It took me some months of study here and elsewhere to learn this "a bad thing"... that chlorine from the generator will eat the heater for breakfast. Previous owners said they had...

Hi all. We're in North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Moved in this past summer. The pool has four Pentaire Deck Jet IIs. They hadn't been used for 7 years. After fixing broken valve actuator wiring, they worked fine. Joyful to see. We're keeping the pool open for the winter. I blew out the jets to...

Hi. We moved this past summer to our 2007 house w/ pool in North Carolina. I'm 64, retired military who always lived in furnished housing with a community pool. We chose the house with family holidays in mind: all seven grandchildren love to swim. Ownership has been a drink from a fire hose...

Just moved to North Carolina to a house with a pool. Around here about half of pools run all winter. We decided to give it a try. Equipment pad is over a foot above pool level, so all water in the pool lighting conduits is below frost (1 foot). All good. The problem is the spa. Water there...