Hey pool guys

[Mexas Joe]

My beagle opened the pool today as well. He came in from a 1 mile walk and decided it was time to swim. My pool is closer to 60 tho.

[Trub Lou]

The water over my cover has a layer of ice this morning. I think it'll still be a few weeks.

[Gusso]

The water over my cover has a layer of ice this morning. I think it'll still be a few weeks.

A bit chilly for me  but we're at 68 right now. I expect 70's by next week.

[Mexas Joe]

My pool has so much floating yellow pollen and tree bud shit it's not even funny.

[Gusso]

My pool has so much floating yellow pollen and tree bud shit it's not even funny.

We had the pollen bad a couple weeks back but it has subsided quite a bit recently. But there's now a ton of blossoms in the pool.  At least the trees are now void of those tiny flowers.

[Mexas Joe]

My secondary booster pump that runs my Polaris has shit the bed. The motor spins and is not seized up so I just replaced the capacitor. No joy. Then I traced and found that no power is going to the motor, which I should have checked first. Next I replaced the relay. No joy. So now I'm down to an issue with the controller motherboard. Groan. Its like 600-800 bones for the gdamn thing. Which it's odd the motherboard is out as the pool filter pump runs fine.

Leaning towards a robotic cleaner and just ditching the Polaris and booster pump.

Anybody use a robotic?

[garyNconcord]

I use this guy. I've got a year under my belt with no issues. Includes running 1/month in the winter to get the crap out. Does a good job getting up what dirt blows in and the odd worm and leaf. It does climb up on the walls to scrub them, but it only goes up in a few places so don't count on it to scrub your walls thoroughly. My pool is about 18 x 32. It works like a roomba, start it and it randomly runs around for several hours. Pretty much covers the whole bottom before its done. Main advantage is you can start it and let it do its thing while you do other stuff.


https://www.maytronics.com/en-us/store/r...6-USI.html

[Mexas Joe]

I'll check it out. May have to wait on the robot as I'm pretty sure my controller mother board is blown and that's set me back 5 hundo. And sadly since the board runs the filter pump, lights, errything I gotta replace it.

[bdutton]

You still need the main filter/pump for circulation but a robot is a must have IMO. I also have a dolphin.

[Mexas Joe]

I swapped the controller board out yesterday. Sadly programming the damn thing is whipping my ass. I've finally admitted defeat and have a call into the service guy to come program the bastard. I'll also have him change the sand in the filter since it's 10 years old now.

My Polaris won't last much longer so when it dies finally I'll join the robot crowd. I'll need to run an outlet into the flower bed as I don't want a power cable running over the top of my pool concrete deck.