Valve To Nowhere

[TomC]

Hi All,

We have an Arctic Spa and while cleaning it yesterday I heard water dripping into the cavity. I opened up one of the service panels and noticed that one of the top side valves was not connected to anything (no tubes, nothing), and any water that splashed over this valve (from rain or water sloshed from tub use) simply flowed directly into the cavity and pooled.

Is this not weird? Firstly, we always thought that valve must do something (although we never could figure out what it was doing - which turns out to be nothing). Secondly, water dripping into the cavity and wearing down the insulation foam does not seem like a good design.

I called our spa maintenance company and they said that is normal and that it is needed for air flow. I feel bad, I was sort of snippy to them in my email describing the problem and now he says it is the way the tubs are designed. It is probably time we moved away from those maintenance folks anyway but maybe I was too harsh (it just seems crazy that a "valve to nowhere" that causes water to flow into the cabinet is normal.

Thanks

[Momsmess]

uld it be an ozonator hookup? We found a jet to nowhere and a converter box on our used tub. Did some heavy searching and found it was an ozonator that had long ago been disconnected. We opted not to spend the $100+ to restore to factory and blocked it off entirely.

[MARTINOS1]

i have also heard it was an air flow. I really think it is for the eye beam you use for remote control to stereo or tv. i have the tundra and it has the same feature it has to be for SOMETHING, i do not believe them either that it is for air. good luck and let me know what you find out.

[Roger]

Likely for an option you don't have. Maybe another pump and it's plumbing. Which isn't there. But when the shell is cast a hole ends up in the top lip so they use a diverter handle to hide the hole. Don't splash so much. Or seal it.