Aboutroger Expertise Any questions regarding pool,spa pumps and motors. Any pool and spa operations, problems, chemistry and maintenance. Filters, Heaters, Cleaners,Salt Water Systems. Also consider solar power to heat your home, spa and pool using the power of the sun.
Experience Over 8 years as a field service technician in pools over 40 years as an electronic field service technician in process control and metrology (precision measurement). Having worked in depth with pool and spa leaks and solutions we are the experts. Years of rebuilding motors. Insulation testing and Solar power.
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Education/Credentials Electronics technology
Pool and Spa certified tech
Precision Measurement certified tech
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Past/Present Clients Doctors, Dentist, Lawyers and their thieves.
Question Where can I find an instruction manual? Previous owner left nothing regarding pool. Never owned one before. Totally frustrated. 2 service guys came out, don't know anything about the filter equipment. Pool was deep green, got color back. Used 40 lbs. shock, now two days later, I have no chlorine in water. Suspected old fiberglass Chlorinator as problem, disconnected last night. Now filter is not running. Tried turning valves, one turn caused water erupting from location where we disconnected chlorinator. HELP have spent over $300 this past weekend, now I am back to Square 1. Thanks for any assistance you can provide.
Answer Were they cable service guys. As long as the label is on the top of the filter head you need no manual you have me. Here is how a sand filter works, there are 3 hoses on a filter, one comes from the pump/motor thing, the other goes to a heater or back to the pool and the third goes to a drain or roll out hose called backwash hose. When the dial points to filter dirty water comes from the pump and lands on the top of the sand inside the tank and water filters through the sand and through little fingers with little holes up through a center pipe and clean water goes back to the pool. Over time the sand gets dirty and the filter slows the flow and the tank pressure increases. So now you turn the pump off unroll a hose to the yard and move the sand filter handle to backwash and start the pump if there is a glass bottle on this filter it will fill with dirty water and run this till its clear, Shut off pump and put back on filter (do this once a week). On the backwash the water flow is reversed sending that dirt on top of the sand to a drain thus cleaning the filter. As far as your chlorinator leaks a picture would be helpful where it hooks and leaks. It seems you will have many more questions for me in the future. I hope this is of help to you an other new pool owners re sand filters. Send me a picture to deal with the chlorine thing
