Recent content by Poolrunsme

So, I replaced the heater and circulation pump and now only the 20amp breaker is tripping after a few minutes. Before it was the 30 amp (maybe both). Now the power stays on with red blinking light.

Thank you. I am not very good with testing with an ohm meter. I have already ordered a new heating element and circulating pump. I figure they need replacing anyway if I want to eke out a couple more years with this tub. I will update after I replace them. Thanks again for the suggestions

I have a very old Tiger River Spa. It has a Watkins Jet pump and Watkins No-Fault heater. It has been running with no issues for years. The other night we went to use it and water was lukewarm. I realized the breaker had tripped. When I tried resetting the breaker it keeps tripping. Doing a...

Problem solved! I noticed a VERY slow drip under the connection from pump to valves (about 1 drop a minute). I took it all apart and reconnected each piece using fresh teflon tape on the leaking connector. I now have complete prime and am able to vacuum. Good lesson. Thanks for all of the...

I have 2 skimmers and I do always close 1 when I vacuum. I have 2 valves before the pump. One is for the MD the other controls both skimmer ports. My problem is noticable even with just both skimmers ports drawing water, pump is not fully priming.

Both ideas sound plausible to me, although I did blow out both skimmer lines before closing the pool. I guess something could have clog line after I removed the gizmo. My valves have not been touched since installation though.

I have been opening/closing my inground pool for 15 years. First time I hit this problem at opening. My water seems to be circulating just fine but when I switch off Main Drain to skimmers only I cannot get a good enough prime for the vacuum to work. It does not even fully prime when vacuum hose...

Ok, here is my update as promised. The first thing I did was use the pool math calculator to plug in my actual and target levels to figure out how much of each chemical to add. I first added about 4 lbs of dry acid to get my ph down while continuing to add my bleach. Then I added 6 lbs of CYA to...

Thanks for the tips. I will update with my progress

This is my 3rd season on this site. I am a BBB success story. I came into this site 2 years ago with major chlorine demand issues which was basically caused by pool store chemicals getting my CYA to well over 100. I first stopped going to the pool store and adopted the BBB method. I was able to...

I had to go away this weekend so my slam was interrupted. Friday morning I was at FC of 18 before we left. When I checked it Sunday evening it was at 1ppm. We did have 3 full days of hot sun in the northeast this weekend. So I brought the chlorine back up to 9 last night to do an overnight test...

Ok, back to reality. Last night my FC went from 16 to 12 in seven hours overnight. This is still a major improvement, for days I was losing about 1ppm per hour overnight so it does look like my chlorine consumption is slowing down.

OMG, I might be done. My FC was 17 at 11pm and ( just measured it this morning at 6am and it was 18.5! I may have a rezding error cause I don't think it would rise, but in any case it does not look like I lost much if any chlorine at all. My CC was very close to 0. Fingers crossed that my...

No, I have not pulled the light and cleaned it. I have only pulled the light once to change the bulb a couple of years ago...I will try that tonight. Thanks for the suggestion. Last night at 10pm my FC was 22.5 and 5:15am this morning it was 16.5 but my CC was the lowest yet. I had to really...

I completely replaced my DE filter grids on day 2 of the SLAM(last Tuesday). The water was clear at that point and my pressure has barely moved since then.