Pumps, Filters & Equipment

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Thinking about adding an inline flow meter, worth the money Been running my turnover and flow numbers off the Pentair affinity curves and my VS pump's wattage readout for years, basically backing into gpm inste… Pumps, Filters & Equipment Marcus Reed Oct 25, 2026 3replies Suction side chlorinator vs just dosing liquid by hand, weighing it Been going back and forth on this one for a while. Right now I'm just dumping liquid chlorine in by hand based on what the FC reading tells me, works … Pumps, Filters & Equipment robotvic Oct 26, 2026 5replies Air bubbles out the returns after every backwash, chasing this down Look, this one's got me scratching my head a little. Every time I backwash the sand filter and switch back to filter, I get a good minute or two of ai… Pumps, Filters & Equipment plumberdave Nov 1, 2026 1reply Weighing one long low rpm cycle against two shorter high rpm ones Been going back and forth on this for my 22k gallon gunite. Option A is single 8 hour cycle around 1800 rpm to hit one turnover a day, nice and gentle… Pumps, Filters & Equipment Marcus Reed Oct 31, 2026 1reply Surprised how much defrost cycles cut into my heat pump runtime Been tracking the AquaCal this week since it's been cool and humid mornings here, upper 40s with heavy dew. Didn't realize how much time it spends in … Pumps, Filters & Equipment btu_frank Oct 31, 2026 2replies Surprised how much standby power my automation panel actually draws Stuck a meter on the transformer for my panel out of curiosity since I already track pump kWh obsessively, and even with the VS pump off and everythin… Pumps, Filters & Equipment Marcus Reed Oct 23, 2026 4replies Sticking with my shop-vac rig or finally giving in and buying a robot Been going back and forth on this all week. My shop-vac contraption has done fine for probably ten seasons now, hose rigged into a cut-down pole, and … Pumps, Filters & Equipment Bill Hartman Oct 21, 2026 4replies Gas heater short cycling on cold mornings, heat pump runs fine Got the dual fuel setup, AquaCal for shoulder season and the Raypak for the real cold snaps we get down here a few times a winter. Past two mornings w… Pumps, Filters & Equipment btu_frank Oct 22, 2026 4replies Thinking about a variable speed pump swap, is it actually worth it on my setup Single speed pump on my sand filter setup is still kicking but it's loud as hell and I know it's not cheap to run. Been reading up on variable speed p… Pumps, Filters & Equipment Jason Okafor Oct 22, 2026 3replies Running the robot during pump cycle versus on its own schedule When we first put in the screen cage down here I figured debris would stop being a thing entirely, and it mostly did, but I am still going back and fo… Pumps, Filters & Equipment Chuck Weaver Oct 20, 2026 3replies Surprised how little sand was actually left when I opened the tank Pulled the lid off my sand filter this week just to poke around before summer gets going and the sand level was way lower than I expected, maybe half … Pumps, Filters & Equipment Jason Okafor Oct 19, 2026 3replies Repiping to 2 inch vs sticking with 1.5 inch on the pad Look, my pad is original 1.5 inch schedule 40 from when the pool went in and it's held up fine, no cracks, no weeping unions. But I'm swapping the pum… Pumps, Filters & Equipment plumberdave Oct 17, 2026 4replies Running a bottom drain for the robot vs just relying on the pump timer Been going back and forth on this one. Right now my Scuba S1 and the E10 just run on their own timers independent of the main pump, which works fine e… Pumps, Filters & Equipment robotvic Oct 12, 2026 4replies Cartridge filter cleaning finally clicked, should've done this years ago Been rinsing my cartridges with the garden hose for four seasons and wondering why pressure crept up faster every month. Finally sat down and did a re… Pumps, Filters & Equipment Karen Delgado Oct 15, 2026 3replies Sand filter multiport leaking from the handle shaft, worth fixing myself Noticed a small drip coming from where the handle shaft goes into the multiport body, right on top of the valve. Not a ton of water but enough to leav… Pumps, Filters & Equipment Jason Okafor Oct 16, 2026 3replies Didn't expect my pressure gauge to be this far off until I checked it Had a cheap glycerin gauge on the sand filter since forever, reading 12 psi at what I thought was a clean filter. Grabbed a second gauge off a buddy's… Pumps, Filters & Equipment Jason Okafor Oct 5, 2026 3replies Multiport valve stuck between positions, won't seat right Been fighting this for a week now. Backwashed like normal, went to switch back to filter and the handle won't drop all the way into position, feels li… Pumps, Filters & Equipment Jason Okafor Oct 8, 2026 2replies Glad I checked the heater vent before firing it up this spring Small thing but worth sharing. Every year before I light the Raypak for the season I pull the vent cap and look down the flue with a flashlight, been … Pumps, Filters & Equipment Tom Brennan Oct 7, 2026 2replies Weighing a booster heater for the spa side vs just leaning on the heat pump When we first moved down from Michigan the house had a spa spillover nobody had used in years, and now that I actually swim every morning I've been tr… Pumps, Filters & Equipment Chuck Weaver Oct 1, 2026 4replies Variable speed pump humming but not spinning up, any ideas My own pool this time, not a customer's. Went out this morning and the pad's got that hum going, motor's warm, but the impeller's not turning and flow… Pumps, Filters & Equipment tampapoolguy Oct 6, 2026 1reply Thinking about a smart timer for off-peak pump runs, worth it Working nights I've just been running my pump on the stock mechanical timer, basically guessing at hours. Vegas power rates jump hard in the afternoon… Pumps, Filters & Equipment Ray Castillo Sep 30, 2026 0replies Running the heat pump low and steady vs blasting it right before soak time Been going back and forth on this all summer. Right now I let the AquaCal just idle around 88 all week so it's ready whenever, versus the other option… Pumps, Filters & Equipment spool_derek Sep 25, 2026 3replies Weighing two freeze protection setups on the automation panel Katy guy so this comes up every winter. Panel lets me do it two ways and I keep flip flopping. Option one, just run the VS pump at low RPM, something … Pumps, Filters & Equipment Marcus Reed Sep 25, 2026 2replies Shop-vac rig vs finally buying a robot, talk me into or out of it Been running my shop-vac contraption on this 27 footer for going on 15 seasons now and it still gets the job done, but I'm getting a little tired of h… Pumps, Filters & Equipment Bill Hartman Sep 16, 2026 2replies Rebuild the multiport again or just replace the whole valve Been going back and forth on this one. My sand filter valve is the same one from 2015, I've already rebuilt it twice, spider gasket and the little o-r… Pumps, Filters & Equipment Jason Okafor Sep 20, 2026 2replies Didn't expect to empty the pump basket daily this week we had some wind kick up dust and palm junk this week and i swear the pump basket looked like a salad by the next morning, been used to checking it on… Pumps, Filters & Equipment swamp_tyler Sep 18, 2026 3replies Thinking about swapping the old gate valves for Jandy never-lubes Look, my pad still has the gray gate valves the builder put in back whenever, handles are getting stiff and one of them weeps a little around the stem… Pumps, Filters & Equipment plumberdave Sep 10, 2026 3replies Didn't expect the low speed schedule to be the noisy part Figured dropping my IntelliFlo to 1000 RPM for the overnight turnover would be dead silent, that's the whole pitch of a VS pump. Instead I get a rhyth… Pumps, Filters & Equipment Marcus Reed Sep 12, 2026 4replies Pressure gauge running high at low RPM, sanity check please Running my IntelliFlo at 1500 RPM for the 8 hour filter block, filter side gauge is sitting at 12 psi where it used to sit around 7 to 8 at that speed… Pumps, Filters & Equipment Marcus Reed Sep 8, 2026 3replies Thinking about a real automation panel instead of smart plugs and app relays Right now my setup is basically the WiFi pump doing its own thing and a couple smart plugs for the LED lights, and after that power blip last week wip… Pumps, Filters & Equipment robotvic Sep 11, 2026 3replies