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Light Shorted
on Oct 13, 2009 in General Today I finally broke down and pulled the light from the deep end. It had thrown the GFI breaker last November and Paddock said it was not covered by warranty so I decided to take a look.Light It seems that the rust proof housing had rusted through a...



SWG Installed
on May 28, 2009 in General Finished installing the salt water chlorine generator. After refilling the pool, salt level down to 3400. SWG seems to be running fine. Set it to super chlorinate to see what happens.




on May 27, 2009 in General The salt water generator came in today. I mounted the controller to the wall and started draining the pool. I figured I will need to drain 25% of the water to get the salt level down to the new level for the new SWG. I removed the worthless ozone ge...



SWG
on May 22, 2009 in General I ordered a new chlorine generator today. I think I will try a Hayword Aqua Rite 40k. They were on sale for about $900. Was hoping to install it over the holiday, but they were sold out.



Heatpump works
on May 19, 2009 in General Gillespie A/C called me and had me do a reset on the heatpump. This was basically tuning off the power to the heatpump and letting it sit, then restarting it. That seemed to fix it. It restarted with no errors. You would think it ran on Windows XP.



Heatpump Error
on May 17, 2009 in General Paddock came out and repaired the leaking pipe at the filter. Another $65.00 service charge. When I restarted the pool pump after waiting about an hour for the glue to dry, the heatpump error code popped up saying the suction TH open. The heatpum...