taxgod4u

I asked an engineer this same question, he said no more HP needed to use solar, the energy to pump the water on the roof will be almost totally recovered when it falls down the other side. There is also a vaccuum creted by teh falling water that will hepl to pull the water up. so if you have enough power to get it started it "should" work. My 2 speed will circulate solar at the .2 hp slow setting up a single story home all day long, albeit slower than the full speed setting.

Was wondering if we have too much pump and are waisting electicity. We have a 18,000 gal ingound and 430 square feet of solar panel on a single story roof. The pump set up and solar are about 15 feet from the pool. It has a 2hp pump. Is there a rule of thumb on pump size?

salt water chlorine generator

Mine too, I assume it is co2 or hydrogen gas from teh SWG. Ours stops when you turn the SWG off.

our 4 year old jandy cl460 tank bottom has a tiny crack at the bottom inlet that is dripping. anybody know what these can be glued with (epoxy did not stick)? or where to buy a tank bottom that does not cost an arm and a leg? is there a used barts bone yard out htere? apparently Jandy customer service does not retun phone calls.

I found some affordable unicel filters on ebay. I will give them a try unless there are issues anybody has seen with these.

It is time to replace my 4 cartrtidge filters. I see a variety of brands on the market and a wide price spread. Is there a large diff between the filter cartidges out there? Is there any brand to avoid? and who has the best prices?

While I wait for my test kit to arrive, Let's assume it is a white mold, or some other creature. What is the best method of killing it off? Can I dump say 4 gallons of chlorine into the 18K pool? I say this as I happen to have 4 gallons in the shed...

Good suggesteion on the test kit. What causes the calcium carbonate and how does one make this stop? Can you enlighten a newbie on what a saturation level is?

I have a 19K salt pool, plaster/3M, 4 years old, 2 hp pump and 400 ft cartridge filter, solar no heater. Keep the water at 86-88 degrees, not coverred in since before issue showed up. Pump and solar run 8+ hours per day. ISSUE The last few months there has been a handfull or so of very heavy white paper mache like stuff in the polaris 360 bag. If dried out is gets flakey and crispy, and I think it is bleaching my coping as white spots are showing up. It will dissapate from the pool bottom where it collects if I shock the pool, but it comes back. I assume it is the salt generator as there is none of the stuff in the filters but it collects inthe polaris 360 screen at the pool wall connection. So it has to be post filter created. any idea what this is and what I need to do to make it stop? the water always tests fine for salt level, akalinity, phosphates, hardness, stabilizer at teh local pool store and my OTO test kit. 2 pool stores had no idea what it was.