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I had a prologic SWG since I've had my pool. we've had so many problems with salt cells and then the motherboard in my prologic. Hayward warrantied the motherboard last year cuz the relay (if I'm remembering what the black box on the board is called correctly) went bad. That board didn't last...

Hi. Does it seem possible to lose 45 CYA in a year? I only recorded backwashing my pool twice in a year, so that was likely (and hopefully) wrong. Let's say I backwashed 5 times, though. I still wouldn't loose more than half of the CYA if I'm just emptying an inch or 2 of h20 out of the pool...

I must have adjusted the pool levelers too far to wear the piece that decides the level fell off. Is there a trick to getting this back on? I've never seen this out of the pool to know what I'm trying to do when I'm trying to lifthe paste that spins back up onto the pipe to try to thread it back...

I am going to empty my salt H20 pool. I could empty it into my washing machine that's in a shed that's attached to my house which is 48' ft from the pool or my cleanout which is 155' feet from my pool. My hesitation is that salt and CH may not be great in the washing machine and if the hose fell...

How often do most of you drain your H20 in Phoenix area and why do u drain when you do? Are you measuring CH or have u learned by now that your pool needs it every "x"/years? Then, the reality is that for those of you who drain less frequently, u r probably a disciplined rock star as far as...

On 6-30 spotted a few "black" spots at the bottom of our salt pool. After $200 worth of chlorine and an overnight with only .5 loss of FC and I threw in another gallon after that for good measure, I thought I completed a successful SLAM on 7-5. I felt the FC levels were going down so quickly but...

How long should piston valves last? We've lubed it a few xs but now that we went to backwash today I was afraid I'd break it by trying to turn it. All we had available was WD-40 which may not have been ideal but we were limited in time so used it. It helped but it was still very hard to turn...

We r having problems with our salt cell and are going to replace/repair the panel. We already tried soldering the K1 but that didn't work for more than a few minutes. I have another thread started about that issue. Somewhere during this time I noticed that my pool lights that change colors if...

We've been having a lot of bubbles coming out of the pop ups and returns when the pool turns on. There was a leak on the DE filter and we got a new O ring. Where else do we check? How do we know for sure which O-Ring needs replacing or is it time to replace most ORings or all until we figure...

I've been through a few salt cells but still on 1st panel. I'm told different from pb and poolstore but I mostly hear that panels last 7-10 yrs. We have fresh water, 4 mths or so. Clean salt cell 2 weeks ago. Looking at my pool from the house it had a green tinge. Dejavu. Walking up to it...

I try not to talk with the pool store about my pool but I was caling to see about purchasing a new module for our pop ups as after 6 yrs the gears aren't turning that well, maybe due to calcium and pool store got me a little intrigued about this product, "Stain and scale prevent" by Natural...

pb has needed to do some warranty work with an empty pool. by the time it was scheduled work will take place next week where highs will be 85 and more daily. pool will be emptied mon and filled on Wed. Sunday is Phoenix' first day over 85 for the summer coming up. pebble guy came out to get...

We need to empty pool for some warranty work so put off backwashing pool. After a while it didn't seem like a good idea to wait so we backwashed a couple of weeks ago and last week broke down the filter and cleaned that. We weren't so happy with how it was cleaning and after opening the leaf...

Pool company has some warranty work to do and we are going to be emptying pool so they can do it. They are throwing in an acid wash. Since we knew we were going to empty the h20 we waited too long to backwash and break down the filter. We ended up backwashing a couple of weeks ago, cuz it...

our Hayward salt cell panel has been giving us problems the past few months. It's often told us that it is not chlorinating pool, check salt level, very low salt level. I test my own salt and we're fine with salt, if not more than I wanted as hubbie didn't hear me when I said "add 1/2 the bag"...

My guess is some people choose Taylor K2006 since it's conveniently sold on amazon (and perhaps at the pool store?). I heard one person say they dont like the Tf-100's awkward fishing box. I can see what they mean but I've been using the TF-100 for 5 yrs and that's what I'm used to, although I...

our Hayward salt cell panel is saying that that it is not chlorinating pool, check salt level, very low salt level. pool/panel is about 5 yrs old, we're on Cell #3, this time we bought "jacuzzi" brand from lowes to save a couple/few hundred $$ about 4 mths ago. Cell is clean and FC seems...

Pool company changed out the leveler a year ago and it's already seeming to have probs, again! The level of the water is high. Since the summer I've been turning it down a few turns and waiting a couple of weeks to see if the level lowered. Last week I turned it just a quarter of a notch...

Sorry, I'm posting this twice but this feels more like an emergency and someone might not see it soon in my laddy-da empty our pool post. We r just filling up our pool after emptying it. husband turned on the filter for the first time after refilling the pool and i heard water...

We've had our pool for almost 3 years. I've been told on this site that there is no reason to dump pool water. However, we appear to not being doing the greatest job with the pool and I don't have much help getting the salt cell off to clean it so if I am going to need to clean it every 2-3...

I know there's a list of daily things to do for the pool on TFP site but I'm wondering if folks give themselves some slack in the wintertime, for those of us who don't close up our pools. I know I've paid for that more than once and it is more of a risk for folks with high calcium if we aren't...

I never have had to do such an extensive SLAM. I'm hopefully towards the end of it but now having tested and retested so many times I ran out of my last bottle of R-0871 much faster than I thought I would. I didn't see it coming since it took me 2 years to get through the first one. I used 66...

I meant to add 31 oz acid and I added 41. My TA is 90. I meant to aerate to get my TA down from 90. I just need to aerate longer or is there something else I should do? thx! - - - Updated - - - how long should I have to leave my bubbler on? I only have a bubbler, the one means of aerating...

It's been about a year since we had the pb show us how to clean our DE filter. We have pop ups. If the pool seems to be cleaning well, could it be logical to say we don't need to clean it quite yet? My worry is that I'll tear something and why waste time and effort if I can wait until it...

Since my salt cell stopped producing chlorine (i'll probably find it full of calcium tomorrow which will hopefully take care of this problem) I have been adding liquid bleach to the pool. Over the last couple years of trying to learn the trouble free method, hearing high chlorine numbers aren't...

i have been trying to get my pool dialed in before i go on vacay saturday and today my salt panel is saying low salt. The card on the panel says my pool should have 2700-3400 ppms of salt. a mth ago i tested the salt and got 3800 and panel said 2700. we cleaned the cell a few weeks ago, too...

Happy fathers day to any dads out there! #s yesterday at 3:30pm in Phoenix: FC=1.5 CC=0 pH=7.5 CH=650 TA=100 CYA=40 CSI=.37 salt=3800 (but automatic panel says 2700)-I used the test kit that is recommended here First, I realize the FC is too low, which I was surprised cuz cell was at 30% and we...

I'm disappointed that I have not been enjoying my pool this year. Everyone in Phoenix is glad for the temp under 100 accept for me it seems, since i want to be in the pool. It's 99 degrees today and pump has been off for hours so the water sensor that says 94 is surely not the temp of the pool...

I went in on Hayward's website and used the calculator to estimate how much it would cost to heat my pool with a heat pump. I first put in april through october. I then changed it and said just april and october. I would have thought the costs would have increased for october because if i had...

I just learned that there is such a thing as something that adds pH to the pool automatically. I am thinking this would be especially good for when on vacation. Since my pool seems to need acid every 2-3 days and I already have some scaling this is of interest to me. I know I may have to...