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  1. The foam disappears fairly quickly, I added bleach to about 11 ppm today, now the water is cloudy. I'm really leaning towards draining and refilling now that I have the ingredients to use the dichlor/bleach method advised here. Using up a lot of the reagents in the kit trying to figure out the status of this water. No ozonator. Thanks for the help. It just came to me, my little girl had a bath earlier in the afternoon and we shampoo'd her hair, likely didn't rinse it all out and that's where all the foam came from.
  2. The foam disappears fairly quickly, I added bleach to about 11 ppm today, now the water is cloudy. I'm really leaning towards draining and refilling now that I have the ingredients to use the dichlor/bleach method advised here. Using up a lot of the reagents in the kit trying to figure out the status of this water. No ozonator. Thanks for the help.
  3. For the past few days my numbers have been pretty acceptable, aside from FC which I addressed this morning. FC- .2 CC- .4 pH- 7.8 TA- 110 CA- 190 CYA- 60 But this is what I saw when I kicked the jets on to mix the added chlorine! On Nov. 22 I added 6 tbsp of refresh, 200 g of calcium up, some defoamer, water seemed great for the three days, soaked every night, no changes in attire, kids wore the same dedicated suits they have been wearing. Is this chemically caused or a laundry issue? I'm about to add more defoamer.
  4. Yes, thanks, very well put. I aerated for about an hour and a half with no apparent increase in pH, so I added 2 tsp. of baking soda, and voila pH is 7.4. That was just luck. As far as CYA goes I think you're correct, my numbers were probably wrong. It was a hard test for me, determining when the black dot disappeared from the comparator tube! I'll do one more test today to see where I'm at. Thanks so much for all of the assistance.
  5. Tested ten minutes ago. FC- .4 CC- 2.4 pH- <7 TA- 40 CaCO3- 40 CYA- 100 It took 16 drops of base demand reagent to get pH to 7.4. According to these results I've got to get free chlorine up quickly, combined chlorine is dropping since removal of the floater, pH is lower than original test, TA is lower, Calcium hardness remained the same and CYA shot up. Help. Tub is currently aerating again. Should I add bleach or use the Refresh at this point to get FC up?
  6. Yes, I would like to know what's in the Refresh too. I'm confused as to why Arctic and my dealer would recommend trichlor when it seems to be not highly regarded here. Maybe I grabbed the wrong pail off the shelf. Anyway, I'm looking forward to getting this resolved. Thanks for the input. I've lifted the cover, turned on the water jets and air therapy jets, removed the floater and soaked for an hour. I'll test again in the morning to see where I'm at.
  7. Thanks for taking the time to reply. I've only been using the Arctic Pure line of products since new, I figured this was proper. Here are the chlorine tabs, and the shock, I've come across the term MPS on the forum but have forgotten what it means.
  8. Using the Taylor kit these are the numbers I came up with, FC- .8 CC- 3.6!!! pH- 7.0 TA- 60 CaCO3- 40 CYA- 55 What steps should I take and what ingredients should I use to remedy these skewed numbers, specifically to raise hardness, free chlorine and pH, while lowering combined chlorine. The tub is a 363 gallon Arctic Yukon and I sanitize with a trichloro floater and shock weekly.
  9. Did your dealer not leave you an owner's manual? It's all spelled out in there. Default or automatic is four filter cycles per day, 6 hours apart- blower runs for 1 minute, then pump runs on low speed for the preset number of hours. To adjust duration of filter cycle- Press filter cycle button (three squiggly vertical lines bisected with a horizontal slash) the display will show FdXX where XX represents the number of hours the pump will operate. Use the up/down arrow buttons to change to your liking. 00=no filtration, 01=1 hour/cycle, 02=2 hour/cycle. Press the filter cycle button again. The display now shows the number of cycles,FfXX, where XX is the number of cycles in a 24 hour period. 1 to 4 cycles per day are your options, using the arrow buttons. Press filter button to accept your choices, filter cycle will start immediately. The Filter cycle triangular icon will appear on the control panel when the filter cycle is on.
  10. When your warranty runs out or your dealer doesn't even make service calls (Mine is 150 miles away, advised maintenance procedures via telephone) and you have to drain your tub in January @ -40C to replace a 2.5" check valve that is expensive and takes 14 days to arrive. If you've got the patience to do that then it is all worth the relaxation benefits these things provide. As long as the contributors on this forum hang around all the information you need is here to help you ensure a pleasant relationship with your spa.
  11. I've read it's quite extensive to test the cap, best left to the pros. Some staining, little rust, but no bulges or burn marks, does this cap look faulty? Will I find one of these at a motor rebuild shop?
  12. Tested the switch, I've got continuity through it. How do I test the capacitor? There is also continuity through all three terminals in the thermal overload.
  13. I took the motor apart again, all looks good. I had ordered a new motor/pump as a back up, when the rebuilt didn't function I put the new one in and it works great. I think you're correct, maybe this contact switch is faulty, though it worked before I rebuilt the motor.
  14. I must have the screw retainer indexed improperly. I'll remove and replace.
  15. Good day. Well, I got the motor reassembled, reinstalled in the tub and test run. After flipping the breaker on nothing happened, just a motor hum. Pressing the pump on button did nothing but click a relay by the sound of it. Tripped the breaker and flipped it on again, nothing but a hum, but this time pressing the pump button turned the pump on to it's high speed. After that it cycled between low and high speed flawlessly for hours. However, this morning I noticed the water temp was lowered and the pump wasn't running. I pressed some buttons and nothing happened again. I performed the same routine and the pump worked once again. So, it would seem that the pump cannot start itself on low speed, only on high speed, and only then will it run when kicked down to low from high speed. It gets the signal to start pumping but can't, eventually trips. With the recent rebuild of motor/pump is that my problem? Kelly
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